VMware vCloud NFV with vCloud Director [V9.7]

This five-day, hands-on training course discusses Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), a network architecture concept that specifies how virtualization technologies can be used to virtualize network service functions.

This course also covers interfacing VMware vCloud Director® with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®. You will also understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC (Virtual Data Center) networking for vCloud Director and how to configure Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™, Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™.

This course is also available in an On Demand format.

Objectives

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

• Describe the VMware vCloud® NFV™ architecture
• Describe the vCloud Director architecture as Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
• Secure the deployment of multivendor virtual network functions (VNFs) on the vCloud NFV platform
• Manage vCloud Director to support NFV workloads in a secure, multitenant environment
• Configure VMware vSAN™ to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual data centers
• Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
• Use advanced services to manage VMware NSX® from vCloud Director

Intended Audience

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

Prerequisites

Completion of the following course is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge

Completion of the following eLearning courses is recommended:

• VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x]
• VMware vSAN and HCI Fundamentals
• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Product Alignment

• vCloud Director 9.x
• VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director® 3.0
• VMware vSphere® 6.x and later
• NSX 6.x and later

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 vCloud NFV Overview

• Define the benefits of vCloud NFV
• Describe a sample vCloud NFV solution
• Describe the vCloud NFV architecture

3 NFV Infrastructure

• Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
• Describe the advantages and components of the NFV infrastructure (NFVI)
• Explain the role of network virtualization in the NFVI
• Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
• Describe the vSAN architecture and the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
• Explain the purpose of virtual machine storage policies
• Describe network virtualization with NSX

4 Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)

• Describe the VMware products for the VIM layer
• Explain basic concepts related to vCloud Director
• Describe the relationship between provider VDCs (Virtual Data Centers) and organization VDCs
• Describe how vSAN integrates with vCloud Director
• Create vSAN storage policies
• Describe the components and basic configuration of the vCloud Director architecture
• Create resource pools

5 vCloud Providers

• Describe how compute and storage resources are provided to vCloud Director
• Describe provider VDC requirements and best practices
• Create provider VDCs
• Describe the VNF on-boarding process

6 vCloud Director Organizations

• Describe and create vCloud Director organizations
• Discuss vCloud Director HTML5 UI
• Discuss HTML5-based provider portal
• Discuss tenant portal
• Discuss the use cases of a vCloud Director organization VDC
• Discuss organization VDC allocation models
• Recognize resource allocations for an organization
• Examine the function and requirements of network pools.
• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
• Discuss the organization network types
• Create and manage organization VDC networks
• Add a catalog to an organization
• Populate, share, and publish catalogs
• Manage access to vApps and catalogs
• Modify the configuration of vApps and their virtual machines (VMs)
• Manage organization VDC networking
• Create affinity and anti-affinity rules

7 vCloud Director Security

• Describe role-based access
• Create custom security roles
• Integrate Directory Service with vCloud Director
• Integrate LDAP, SAML, SSL, Kerberos, and OAuth2 with vCloud Director
• Configure SSO

8 vCloud Director Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX® EdgeTM services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
• Review routing with the distributed logical router and Edge services gateways in combination with vCloud Director
• Firewall management in vCloud Director with Edge services gateways and the distributed firewall
• Architecture of VMware NSX-T™ (Basic)
• vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T
• Discuss multisite
• Configure Cross VDC networking

9 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs
• Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Manage resource pools at the vSphere level
• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
• Use the cell management tool
• Manage provider VDC and Org-VDC
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Log Insight
• Describe the components for NVFI operations management
• Use VMware vRealize® BusinessTM for cost management
• Review historical virtual machine metrics in vCloud Director
• View vCloud Director logs

10  vCloud Extensibility

• Introduce container service extension
• Explore vCloud Director CLI
• Use Python SDK for vApp deployment
• Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities
• Use VMware vRealize® OrchestratorTM Plug-in for vCloud Director

11 Day 2 Operations

• Identify log locations for vCloud Director
• Navigate through vCloud Director logs
• Capture vCloud Director log bundles