VMware Cloud on Dell: Deploy and Manage 2022-On Demand

This course, equivalent to 4 days of training, 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® as well as workloads with compliance and residency requirements.

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 an overview of VMware HCX an application mobility platform that allows you to migrate your workloads between on-premises VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC.

Objectives

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

• Describe the business challenges that VMware Cloud on Dell EMC addresses
• Configure access to the vCenter Server instance
• Recognize the network configurations necessary to set up the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Recognize the storage options for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Link a VMware Cloud on Dell EMC vCenter Server instance with an on-premises vCenter Single Sign-On domain
• Migrate workloads between your on-premises data center and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Differentiate who is responsible for which maintenance tasks that correspond either to administrators or to VMware
• Recognize how VMware add-on solutions support VMware Cloud on Dell SDDC

Intended Audience

Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators.

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 3.2

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Course Introduction

2 Introduction to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

• Choosing VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Management and operational structure

3 Ordering and Site preparation

• Getting started with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Ordering VMware Cloud on Dell EMC SDDC
• vSphere permissions on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Billing and pricing on VMware Cloud services

4 SDDC management

• Accessing vCenter Server
• SDDC Host management
• SDDC cluster management
• Creating Virtual Machines in SDDC

5 Networking and Security

• SDDC Networks
• Networking and Security Options

6 Storage

• Storage in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

7 Working with On-Premises vSphere

• Hybrid linked mode
• Migration Solutions for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• VM Migration with VMware HCX

8 Maintaining and Troubleshooting

• Maintenance, Support, and Common Troubleshooting Steps

9 Working with other VMware Products

• VMware vRealize® Log Insight Cloud™
• VMware Horizon® with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• VMware vRealize® Automation
• Using VMware vRealize® Operations with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
• Using VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC