VMware vCloud: Deploy and Manage the VMware Cloud

• Consultants, systems engineers, datacenter administrators, and cloud administrators

At the end of this course, you should understand the features and operation of VMware vCloud® Director™ and be able to do the following:

• Deploy vCloud Director
• Manage vCloud Director to satisfy private, public, and hybrid cloud business needs
• Configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual datacenters
• Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps
• Connect organizations with VPN tunnels and static routes
• Interface vCloud Director to OpenLDAP and Microsoft Active Directory servers
• Configure network security between vCloud Director vApps and organizations with VMware vShield Edge™ firewalls
• Use VMware vCenter Chargeback™ to meter vCloud Director resources
• Understand the interactions between VMware vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler clusters and vCloud Director

Course Introduction

• Review course goals
• Review course objectives
• Review the course outline
• Recognize VMware vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements

VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components

• Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach
• Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
• Examine how to charge for resources
• Determine the licensing needs

Installing VMware vCloud Director

• Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
• Install vCloud Director

VMware vCloud Director Networking

• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
• Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
• Describe the function of network pools
• Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps
• Share content in private, public, and hybrid clouds

VMware vCloud Director Providers

• Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
• Configure and manage storage for providers
• Examine provider space allocation to an organization
• Recognize Storage vMotion issues
• Manage storage requirements

VMware vCloud Director Organizations

• Create and manage organizations
• Recognize resource allocations for an organization
• Create and manage catalogs

Monitoring VMware vCloud Components

• Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
• Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells

Cloud Connectivity

• Configure Basic Firewalls in vCloud Director
• Describe a Network Troubleshooting Methodology
• Configure VPN Tunnels in vCloud Director
• Configure Static Routes in vCloud Director
• Describe VMware vCloud® Connector

VMware vCloud Security

• Identify authentication and authorization tasks
• Describe and configure LDAP integration
• Describe single sign-on

Cost Analysis and Reporting with VMware vCenter Chargeback

• Recognize which elements vCenter Chargeback meters for vCloud Director
• Describe how cost models are used to generate reports
• Summarize the function of each of the vCenter Chargeback architecture components
• Identify how to generate reports
• Generate different reports based on business needs

Managing Cloud Resources

• Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
• Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters

Managing vSphere Resources

• Manage VMware vCenter Server™ instances
• Manage VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Manage stranded items
• Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level