Course structure
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
