Duration

5 days.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following courses and equivalent knowledge is required:

  • VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage
  • Strong knowledge on NSX Data Center for vSphere
  • Strong understanding in NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Understanding NSX-T Data Center and VMware Cloud Director fundamentals
  • List the various NSX-T Data Center components
  • List the use cases and topologies of VMware Cloud Director networks
  • Discuss the VMware Cloud Director provider networking configurations
  • Discuss the VMware Cloud Director tenant networking configurations
  • Discuss NSX Advanced Load Balancer and its components
  • Discuss NSX Advanced Load Balancer configuration and integration with VMware Cloud Director
  • Enable a layer 2 stretched network that spans across multiple VMware Cloud organization VDCs
  • Showcase the importance of the VMware Cloud Director migration tool and its functionality
  • Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™

Who Can Benefit?

Cloud architects, systems engineers, datacenter administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.

    Outline for VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center [V10.2] Training

    Outline

    Course Introduction

    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives

    VMware Cloud Director Data Center Fundamentals

    • Explain NSX-T Data Center and its architecture
    • Discuss various NSX-T Data Center components
    • Describe NSX-T Data Center objects and their creation methods
    • List the various requirement and maximum configuration details
    • Explain NSX-T Data Center and its architecture
    • Discuss various NSX-T Data Center components
    • Describe NSX-T Data Center objects and their creation methods
    • Explain VMware Cloud Director and its architecture
    • List the various requirement and maximum configuration details
    • Discuss VMware Cloud Director pre-requisites and deployment
    • Discuss the use cases and features of VMware Cloud Director
    • List the various requirement and maximum configuration details
    • Discuss the design best practices

    Provider Configuration

    • Discuss the integration of VMware vCenter Server® with VMware Cloud Director
    • Discuss the integration of NSX-T Data Center with VMware Cloud Director
    • Explain the provider side networking concepts and features

    Tenant Configuration

    • Discuss the various types of organization VDC networks that can be created using NSX-T Data Center
    • Explain the edge services available under each type of Organization VDC networks
    • Explain what vApp network is
    • Discuss various types of vApp networks

    Cross VDC networking with NSX-T

    • Explain data center groups
    • Configure cross-VDC networking and L2 stretched networks
    • Configure a distributed firewall for a Data Center Group

    NSX Advanced Load Balancer

    • Describe the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and main functions
    • Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer key features and benefits
    • Understand and apply a Global Server Load Balancing design framework

    VMware NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director

    • Understand the main usage and purpose of the NSX migration for VMware Cloud Director
    • List the supported topology and compatibility matrix
    • List the supported features
    • Understand the environmental prerequisites and how to prepare the edge cluster for bridging
    • Know the logs and error handling exceptions

    Monitoring VMware Cloud Director Networking

    • Discuss the methods to manage and monitor networking objects from VMware Cloud Director portals
    • Understand the vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App overview
    • Discuss how to monitor VMware Cloud Director networking objects using vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
    • Create views and reports
    • Describe the use of vCloud Usage Meter with VMware Cloud Director