VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Workshop [V10.2]

VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Workshop [V10.2]

Duration: 5 Days

Course Code: VMCDAW

Prerequisite:

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

Course Description:

This course covers the migration from VMware NSX® for vSphere® (NSX-V) to VMware NSX-T® Data Center in a VMware Cloud Director environment. You learn about how the NSX Advanced Load Balancer can be used and integrated in a service provider environment and how to configure the load balancing services using VMware NSX-T Data Center. Besides the advanced know-how of the vRealize Operations Tenant App and Cloud Availability, the course also discusses the extensibility and orchestration of workflows in Cloud Director. 

Course Objective:

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

Intended Audience:

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

Course 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