Duration

5 days.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following courses or equivalent knowledge is required:

  • VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage
  • VMware vRealize Automation: Orchestration and Extensibility
  • VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

Skills Gained

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

  • Describe the advanced architecture of a VMware Cloud Director environment
  • Design Cloud Director Federation
  • Explain use cases for CPOM
  • Explain basic concepts of NSX-V and NSX-T design with VMware Cloud Director
  • Discuss the integration of VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer with VMware Cloud Director
  • Explain use of migration tools from NSX-V to NSX-T Data Center
  • Discuss the use cases for NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  • Describe the architecture of VMware VMware Cloud Director Availability
  • Discuss the use cases for migration with VMware Cloud Director Availability
  • Describe the architecture of vRealize Operations in a Service Provider Environment
  • Explain the use cases for vRealize Operations Tenant App
  • Explain VMware Cloud Director orchestration and extensibility
  • Explain use cases for XaaS Integration
  • Discuss UI customization for Service Provider and Tenants

Who Can Benefit?

Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.

    Outline for VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Workshop [V10.2] Training

    Outline

    Course Introduction

    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives

    Advanced VMware Cloud Director Architecture

    • Explain the basic concepts and terminologies in a VMware Cloud Director environment
    • Describe the basic architecture of a VMware Cloud Director environment
    • Follow a proven process to design and deploy a cloud solution
    • Gather and analyze business and application requirements
    • Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
    • Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
    • Explain the differences between conceptual, logical, and physical designs
    • Describe the concepts of Provider SLAs
    • Discuss the advantages of standardized and flexible cloud platforms
    • Explain how you can use a building-block design approach with VMware products to architect a flexible but standardized cloud environment
    • Impact on Monetization of service definitions
    • Discuss the design and implications of a vSphere Design for the Cloud Platform
    • Explain the use of Single vs. Stretched vs. Multi-Site deployments
    • Design Cloud Director Federation
    • Explain use cases for CPOM

    NSX for vSphere Versus NSX-T Data Center and Migration

    • Describe the NSX Management cluster architecture, components, and communication channels
    • Identify the workflows involved in configuring the NSX Management cluster
    • Validate and troubleshoot the NSX Management cluster formation
    • Explain basic concepts of NSX-V and NSX-T design with VMware Cloud Director
    • Discuss the use cases for Edge Services
    • Discuss the use cases for Distributed Network Services
    • Discuss the features available in NSX-V and NSX-T
    • Explain the integration of external networks (such as MPLS, DirectConnect)
    • Explain the integration of 3rd party network services (NON-VMware Edge Services, WAF)
    • Discuss different migration scenarios
    • Explain pre-requisites for migration from NSX-V to NSX-T

    NSX Advanced Load Balancer

    • Explain basic concepts of NSX Advanced Load Balancer
    • Explain the integration of NSX Advanced Load Balancer with VMware Cloud Director
    • Discuss the use cases for NSX Advanced Load Balancer
    • Explain the load-balancing service offered by an NSX-T edge gateway

    VMware Cloud Director Availability

    • Describe the architecture of VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • Explain the prerequisites of VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • Discuss the implementation of VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • Discuss the use cases for migration with VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • Explain setup of data seeds for VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • Discuss the use cases for Disaster Recover as a Service with VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • Explain connectivity for VMware Cloud Director Availability to Cloud use cases
    • Understand requirements for VMware Cloud Director Availability OnPrem to Cloud failover and failback

    vRealize Operations Manager and Tenant App

    • Describe the architecture of vRealize Operations in a Service Provider
    • Describe the architecture of vRealize Operations Tenant App
    • Explain the use cases for vRealize Operations Tenant App
    • Explain use cases for vRealize Operations Manager in Service Provider environments
    • Discuss vRealize Operations Manager Management Packs
    • Explain advanced troubleshooting in service provider environments with vRealize Operations Manager
    • Discuss architecture and integration of vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
    • Explain connectivity of the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
    • Discuss user and role management of the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
    • Describe billing policy definition in the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App

    VMware Cloud Director Orchestration

    • Explain VMware Cloud Director orchestration
    • Explain vRealize Orchestrator use cases
    • Describe the architecture of vRealize Orchestrator in a Service Provider environment
    • Explain use cases for VMware Cloud Director blocking tasks
    • Explain use cases for XaaS Integration
    • Design workflows, objects
    • Discuss UI customization for Service Provider and Tenants
    • Explain integration of custom elements in VMware Cloud Director
    • Explain use cases for Extensibility SDK