VMware Cloud on Dell: Deploy and Manage 2022

This four-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools for deploying and managing a VMware Cloud™ on Dell EMC infrastructure. You explore the common use cases of the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC infrastructure that allows you to modernize, protect, and scale applications based on VMware vSphere®.

In this course, you are introduced to various rapid and easy migration options for workloads based on vSphere to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. In addition, you are presented with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery™, which is a Disaster Recovery as-a-service (DRaaS) solution, with fast recovery capabilities, that can be used to cost-effectively protect a broad set of your virtualized applications.

Intended Audience

Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators.

Objectives

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

• Describe the architecture of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Deploy a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC and virtual machines (VMs)
• Configure internal, external, and SDDC networking
• Describe and configure storage integrations and solutions for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Configure a connection between an on-premises vSphere SDDC and a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC
• Configure the scale-up and scale-down of a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC
• Migrate virtual machines between on-premises vSphere and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDCs
• Describe and configure disaster recovery solutions
• Describe additional services that add value to a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC
• Describe lifecycle, troubleshooting scenarios, and support resources for a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage

Product Alignment

• VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• VMware ESXi™ 7.0
• VMware vCenter Server® 7.0
• VMware vSAN™ 7.0
• VMware NSX-T™ Data Center 2.5

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

• Why choose VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Management and operational structure

3 VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Platform and SDDC Deployment Preparation

• Getting started with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Billing and pricing on VMware Cloud services

4 Analyzing SDDC configuration and SDDC management

• Deploying and examining SDDC configurations
• Sizing the SDDC
• SDDC cluster management
• SDDC host management

5 Accessing and Analyzing vCenter Configurations

• Accessing vCenter Server in the Cloud SDDC from the public internet
• Creating virtual machines in the Cloud SDDC
• Analyzing HA, DRS, and resource pools settings in the SDDC
• Analyzing vSphere permissions

6 Networking in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

• Internal SDDC network
• Networking and security options

7 Storage on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

• vSAN storage in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Attaching external storage to a VM running on an SDDC

8 Working with On-Premises vSphere

• Hybrid linked mode
• VMware Cloud on Dell EMC migration solutions
• Virtual machine migration with VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension

9 Maintaining and Troubleshooting VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

• Maintenance and support
• Common troubleshooting steps

10 Using Other VMware Products with the SDDC

• VMware vRealize® Log Insight Cloud™
• VMware Horizon® with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• VMware vRealize® Automation Cloud™ add-on
• VMware vRealize® Network Insight™