VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

▪ Introductions and course logistics
▪ Course objectives

▪ Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
▪ Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
▪ Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
▪ Discuss VMware Validated Design™
▪ Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using
VMWare Cloud Foundation™

▪ Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
▪ Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
▪ Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
▪ Define switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
▪ Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements

▪ Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
▪ Describe how storage is provided to VMware Cloud Director
▪ Configure and manage storage for Virtual Datacenters (VDCs)
▪ Briefly discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 Gateways
▪ Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server® and NSX-T Data Center
▪ Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
▪ Understand organization policies
▪ Explain how to access an organization using various portals
▪ Understand organization VDC
▪ Discuss what is Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
▪ Understand the use cases of Allocation Models

▪ Discuss user-bundle
▪ Describe role-based Access
▪ Explain custom roles and rights
▪ Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
▪ Discuss OIDC authentication methods
▪ Describe SAML identity provider

▪ Understand standalone VMs
▪ Discuss the VM managing operations
▪ Explain VM properties
▪ Discuss deployment methods of vApps
▪ Discuss the vApp managing operations
▪ Discuss the vApp lease policies
▪ Understand the vApps and VM actions
▪ Explain vApp and VM badges 

▪ Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization
▪ Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations
▪ Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
▪ Discuss vApp templates
▪ Understand vApp template operations
▪ Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
▪ Discuss organization VDC templates

▪ Discuss organization VDC networks
▪ List the types of organization VDC networks
▪ Describe the edge gateway services
▪ Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
▪ Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
▪ Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway
▪ Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
▪ Discuss vApp networks
▪ List the various types of vApp networks
▪ Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks 

▪ Describe named disks and shared named disks
▪ Demonstrate how to attach and detach a named disk and a shared named disk
▪ Describe methods of sharing the named disk
▪ Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk
▪ Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
▪ Explain the storage policy capabilities
▪ Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published
▪ Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage
▪ Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director
▪ Describe the storage policy supported entities 

▪ Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
▪ Understand vcd-cli supported commands
▪ Discuss various vcd-cli tools 

▪ Identify log locations for VMware Cloud Director
▪ Manage vSphere and cloud resources from VMware Cloud Director
▪ Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals
▪ Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
▪ Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
▪ Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack
▪ Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports