VMware Cloud Director: Deploy, Configure, Manage

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

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

• Describe the architecture and main components of VMware Cloud Director
• Explain the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
• Deploy high availability VMware Cloud Director cluster
• Create VMware Cloud Director provider virtual data centers and organizations
• Configure and create vApps and VMs
• Create users and role-based access control
• Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
• Create and manage VMware Cloud Director networks
• Create VM sizing and placement policies
• Discuss additional features of VMware Cloud Director

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration

• Describe VMware Cloud Director features and functions
• Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
• List the prerequisites for deploying VMware Cloud Director
• Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment
• Describe various VMware Cloud Director deployment methods and options
• Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
• Backup and restore a VMware Cloud Director appliance
• Describe the appliance failover methods
• Describe failover, switchover, and promote in the VMware Cloud Director appliance
• Monitor the VMware Cloud Director appliance services and cluster status

3 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration

• Describe the provider portal
• Define a provider VDC, an organization, and organization VDCs
• Configure VMware Cloud Director objects from the VMware Cloud Director provider portal as a system administrator
• Describe provider VDCs and their role in resource allocation
• Explain the configuration of resource pools and storage containers in a provider VDC
• Configure organizations and access the tenant portal
• Identify allocation models for organization VDCs
• Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of allocation models
• Describe how organization VDCs work

4 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles, and Quota Management

• Configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
• Enable a SAML and an OIDC identity provider
• Identify the various types of users in VMware Cloud Director
• Create and import users from the provider portal and the tenant portal
• Describe the options for managing users and groups
• Describe how role-based access control works in VMware Cloud Director
• Explain provider roles
• Recognize the function of the rights bundles
• Explain global roles and their usage in VMware Cloud Director
• Create custom tenant roles
• Explain Quota Management and its use cases
• Configure VMware Cloud Director as an OpenID Provider Proxy Server

5 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps

• Explain standalone VMs and VMs in a vApp
• Describe VM actions
• List the properties of a VM
• Create and manage VMs
• Explain vApp deployment methods
• Explain vApp actions and functions
• Describe VM encryption and how VMs and disks are encrypted
• Describe named disks and shared named disks
• Describe storage IOPS management in VMware Cloud Director
• Create and manage vCenter Server managed IOPS
• Create and manage VMware Cloud Director managed IOPS
• Describe Auto Scale Groups and their advantages
• Explain VM placement, VM sizing, and vGPU policies
• Describe NVIDIA vGPU and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
• Explain the NVIDIA GRID vGPU requirements
• Implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director

6 Managing Catalogs and Templates

• Describe Content Hubb and their advantages
• Create and manage VMware Marketplace Resource
• Create and manage External Helm Chart Repository Resource
• Explain the purpose and use of catalogs
• Create and manage catalogs
• Describe, how catalogs are shared between and within organizations
• Describe vApp templates and their advantages
• Create and manage the vApp template
• Create and manage the organization VDC template

7 VMware Cloud Director Networking

• Discuss the integration of VMware Cloud Director with VMware NSX
• Describe VMware Cloud Director networks
• Perform provider networking tasks
• Discuss organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Discuss vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Describe the segment profile template

8 Edge Gateway Services and Additional Networking Features

• Identify the services offered by an edge gateway
• Configure DHCP, NAT, and firewall services on the edge gateway
• Explain distributed firewall services on an edge gateway
• Describe DNS, routing, and DHCP services on an edge gateway
• Configure and verify NAT services on the edge gateway
• Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
• Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer components.
• Discuss the Data Center Group Networking in VMware Cloud Director
• Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Federation

9 Additional Features of VMware Cloud Director

• Explain the purpose and features of advisories.
• Describe the Guided Tour feature and its use cases
• Configure VMware Cloud Director branding
• Explain the Solution Add-Ons feature in Vmware Cloud Director
• Briefly discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with the following solutions:
• VMware Cloud Director Availability
• VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad
• VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
• VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
• VMware vCloud Usage Meter
• VMware Aria Operations for Logs
• VMware Aria Operations
• VMware Chargeback
• VMware Aria Automation
• VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions
• VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
• VMware Workspace ONE