VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V5.5

VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V5.5

Summary & Schedule

VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V5.5 Course Information

Course Length: 3 Days

This course demonstrates to technical personnel how to deploy and manage the ongoing operation of VMware® vCloud Director® for a small private cloud environment. This course focuses on the private cloud in an engineering or quality assurance solution. It covers all of the fundamentals needed to install, configure, and manage any small private cloud with vCloud Director. This course is the prerequisite for other courses that cover more advanced vCloud Director configurations in enterprise deployments.

Course Objectives

  • Deploy vCloud Director
  • Manage vCloud Director to satisfy small private cloud business needs
  • Configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual data centers
  • Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and VMware vSphere® vApps™ to satisfy business needs
  • Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
  • Configure networking for organizations and vApps
  • Create an interface between vCloud Director and Microsoft Active Directory servers
  • Understand the interactions between VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters and vCloud Director

Pre-requisites

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]
  • VMware vCloud Director: Essentials/Fundamentals [V5.1]
  • Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking

Intended Audience

Consultants, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators

Outline

Sample VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V5.5 Course Outline

1. Course Introduction

  • Review course goals
  • Review course objectives
  • Review the course outline
  • Recognize vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements

2. VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components

  • Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach
  • Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
  • Examine integration with other VMware products such as VMware®
  • vCenter™ Chargeback™ and VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™
  • Determine the licensing needs

3. VMware vCloud Networking

  • Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
  • Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
  • Describe the function of network pools
  • Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps

4. VMware vCloud Providers

  • Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
  • Configure and manage storage for providers
  • Examine provider space allocation to an organization
  • Recognize VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® issues
  • Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines

5. VMware vCloud Director Organizations

  • Create and manage organizations
  • Recognize resource allocations for an organization
  • Create and manage catalogs

6. Basic Security

  • Describe role-based access
  • Create custom security roles
  • Describe and configure LDAP integration with Microsoft Active Directory
  • Describe single sign-on

7. Managing Cloud Resources

  • Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
  • Manage provider and organization virtual data centers

8. Managing VMware vSphere Resources

  • Manage VMware® vCenter Server™ instances
  • Manage VMware® ESXi™ hosts
  • Manage vSphere datastores
  • Manage stranded items
  • Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level

9. Monitoring VMware vCloud Components

  • Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual data centers
  • Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells

10. Organization Users

  • Describe the catalog tasks available to organization users of various roles
  • Describe the vApp tasks available to organization users in various roles

11. VMware vCloud Director Installation

  • Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
  • Install vCloud Director

Certification

VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V5.5 Certification Information

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Datacenter Virtualization

As the demand for IT professionals with datacenter virtualization skills increases, it is essential to distinguish yourself in the market with a certification that validates your technical capabilities. Becoming a VMware Certified Professional does just that.

This industry-recognized certification requires completion of a VMware-authorized training course and hands-on experience with VMware technologies. Achieving the VCP certification confirms that you have the education needed to successfully install, deploy, scale and manage VMware vSphere environments, as well as the skills obtained by a minimum of six months experience with VMware infrastructure technologies.

VMware Certified Professional – Datacenter Virtualization (on vSphere 6)

Become a VCP6-DV

There are different paths to VCP6-DV certification based on your background. Choose your path and complete the three core validation components:

  • Attend a qualifying VMware authorized course.
  • Gain hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 6.
  • Pass the VCP6-DV Exam.

Certification Price

The cost of the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Datacenter Virtualization certification is $175.00. Testing is available at authorized VMTraining testing centers throughout the world. Click here to purchase a certification exam voucher.