VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations [V10.x]-On Demand

In this course, equivalent to 5 days of training, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of virtual datacenter networks, vApp and its networks, catalog services that include predefined virtual machines (VMs), and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.

This course covers integrating VMware vCloud Director® with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and the use of VMware vCloud® Availability. You learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You also learn how to use Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™.

This course is also available in an Instructor-Led Training (ILT) format.

Objectives

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

• Understand role-based access control and custom roles
• Manage vCloud Director organizations’ VDC and vApps
• Manage VMs using sizing and placement policies
• Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates
• Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere® datacenters in the tenant portal
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
• Configure the integration with vCloud Availability
• Transfer VM workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director sites for customer onboarding
• Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
• Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use the existing workflows
• Monitor vCloud Director using VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM
• Know the new features of vCloud Director 10.x tenant operations

Intended Audience

Experienced service provider customers, system engineers, data center administrators, and tenant administrators with experience in a managed services environment

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of one of the following courses:

•  VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
•  VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

Product Alignment

• VMware vSphere 6.7 U2
• VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.6
• VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere® 6.46
• VMware NSX-T™ Data Center 2.4
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5
• VMware vCloud Availability 3.5

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to vCloud Director, Service Provider, and Tenant Portal

• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
• Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases

3 User Access Control

• Discuss users and groups
• Understand the custom roles
• List the user roles
• Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)

4 Working with Virtual Machines

• Create a standalone VM
• Perform VM operations
• Manage VM properties

5 Working with vApps

• Create VMs in a vApp
• Manage catalogs
• Share catalogs
• Discuss vApp templates

6 Organization VDC Networking

• Understand organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Describe the edge gateway services
• List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal

7 vApp Networking

• Create and manage vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Discuss vApp fencing
• Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

8 vCloud Availability

• Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director
• Migrate VMs from cloud to cloud
• Migrate VMs from on-premises to cloud

9 vCloud Extensibility

• Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
• Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI™

10 Multisite Deployment and CPOM

• Discuss multisite deployments
• Configure cross VDC networking
• Define SDDC
• Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
• Use enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal

11 Monitoring and Managing vCloud Director Resources

• Monitor resources from the tenant portal
• Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
• Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports

12 vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature

• Describe name disk feature
• Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
• Describe object storage extension