Duration
3 days
Course Overview
This course is designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud® environment. Students will learn to appreciate the effects of design choices in VMware vSphere®, VMware vCloud® Director™, VMware® vCenter™ Chargeback™, and the VMware® vShield Edge™ capability that is included with vCloud Director. The course culminates in a comprehensive workshop on VMware cloud design.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, you should be able to do the following:
- Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs.
- Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources.
- Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud.
- Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles.
- Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation.
Audience
Sales partners, customers, consultants, and sales engineers who are responsible for designing public and private cloud architectures with VMware products
Prerequisites
- Completion of VMware vCloud: Deploy and Manage the VMware Cloud
- VCP-level knowledge of vSphere
- General-purpose vSphere design experience, with special emphasis on networking and storage
- Exposure to the features and functionality of vCloud Director, vSphere, vShield Edge, and vCenter Chargeback
Course Modules
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- VMware vCloud Director Architecture Review
- Components of VMware cloud infrastructure
- Logical constructs in vCloud Director
- Cloud architecture fundamentals
- VMware vCloud Architecture Models
- Service provider (public cloud) model
- Enterprise (private cloud) model
- Hybrid model
- Management clusters and resource groups
- Load balancing
- Roles and communications in multicell architectures
- Designing Networks
- General network design principles
- Connectivity between networks and clouds
- Virtual switches
- Port groups
- Network pools
- VLANs
- Designing Providers
- Designing storage
- Storage tiering
- Linked clones and fast provisioning
- Virtual datacenters
- Resource pools
- Organization and provider virtual datacenters
- Providers and networking
- Designing Organizations
- Organization creation and resource pools in the provider virtual datacenters
- Accessing multiple provider virtual datacenters from one organization
- Organization administrator rights and responsibilities
- VMware vSphere® vApps™
- Catalogs
- Organization networks and external networks
- Designing Security
- Authentication and authorization
- Role-based access controls
- Organization administrators
- Organization security and LDAP integration
- Predefined roles
- Custom roles
- Five-way vShield Edge device firewall
- Designing Chargeback
- Modules of consumption
- vCenter Chargeback metrics
- vCenter Chargeback server configuration
- vCenter Chargeback data collectors
- VMware vCloud Architecture Design Review
- Multitenancy
- Network design
- Storage design
- Provider design
- Organization design
- Security design
- Chargeback design
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.