Duration
5 days
Overview:
In this five-day course, you focus on deploying, configuring, integrating, designing, and managing VMware Cloud Director™ 10.x network objects with VMware NSX-TTM Data Center. This course also focuses on designing, integrating, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director™ 10.x with VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™.
This course also focuses on the VMware Cloud Director Migration tool, using which the system administrator can perform the actual migration by migrating the workload and networks of the organization VDC supported by VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere® to the organization VDC supported by NSX-T Data Center in the same organization.
This course also showcases how to monitor VMware Cloud Director networking objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™ and VMware vRealize® Operations Tenant App.
Product Alignment
VMware vSphere® 7.0 U1
VMware Cloud Director 10.2.1
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.0.1
VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.1.1
VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2
VMware vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App 2.5
VMware vCloud® Usage Meter™ 4.3
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Understand NSX-T Data Center and the VMware Cloud Director fundamentals
List the various NSX-T Data Center components
List the use cases and topologies of VMware Cloud Director networks
Discuss the VMware Cloud Director provider networking configuration
Discuss the VMware Cloud Director tenant networking configuration
Discuss the Data Center Group network
Discuss VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ and its components
Discuss NSX Advanced Load Balancer configuration and the integration with VMware Cloud Director
Enable a layer 2 stretched network that spans across multiple VMware Cloud organization VDCs
Showcase the importance of the VMware Cloud Director Migration Tool and its functionality
Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and use VMware vRealize Operations
Manager™ and vRealize Tenant App
Intended Audience
Service providers, 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 courses and equivalent knowledge is required:
VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage
Strong knowledge on NSX Data Center for vSphere
Strong understanding in NSX Advanced Load Balancer
The following experience is helpful:
Working at the Linux command line
Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts
Outline
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2 VMware Cloud Director and NSX-T Data Center Fundamentals
Explain NSX-T Data Center and its architecture
Discuss various NSX-T Data Center components
Discuss cluster design for NSX-T Data Center
Deployment methods for NSX-T Data Center Edge nodes
Discuss VRF Lite feature
Describe NSX-T Data Center objects and their creation methods
Comparing the NSX-T Data Center and NSX Data Center for vSphere functionality
List the various requirement and maximum configuration details
Explain Cloud Director and its architecture
Discuss Cloud Director pre-requisites and deployment
Discuss the use cases and features of VMware Cloud Director
Discuss the VMware Validated Designs for Cloud Providers
3 Provider Configuration
Discuss the integration of vCenter Server with VMware Cloud Director
Discuss the integration of NSX-T Data Center with VMware Cloud Director
Explain the Geneve network pool
Describe the types of provider network and their use cases
Discuss the edge gateway and its services
Discuss the external network with the Tier-0 gateway
Understand the external network with VRF
Compare the Tier-0 gateway and the VRF supported external gateway
Discuss the dedicated external network
Explain distributed routing
Discuss the BGP configuration in NSX-T Data Center
Discuss the shared and dedicated external network topologies
4 Tenant Configuration
Discuss the various types of organization VDC networks and their use cases
Explain vApp networks and their use cases
Discuss the different organization VDC networks topology
Understand the configuration requirements for each organization VDC network
Differentiate between the imported and direct organization VDC networks
Explain the imported organization VDC network topology
Explain the edges services available for each type of organization VDC network
Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT
Discuss IP Allocation Pools
Discuss Security Groups
Identify the Security Group objects in NSX-T Data Center
5 Cross VDC Networking Using NSX-T Data Center
Explain Data Center Groups and their use cases
Define compute provider scope and network provider scope
Configure cross-VDC networking and L2 stretched networks
Manage participating VDCs in a data center group
Add a data center group edge gateway to a data center group
Configure the distributed firewall for a data center group
6 NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Describe the NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and its main functions
Explain the NSX Advanced Load Balancer key features, benefits, and its use cases
Discuss NSX-T Cloud and its configuration requirements
Integrate NSX Advanced Load Balancer with NSX-T Data Center
Explain Service Engine Groups and types
Discuss Virtual Service and its configuration
Integrate NSX Advanced Load Balancer with VMware Cloud Director
Understand and apply a load balancing design framework
Monitor NSX Advanced Load Balancer
7 VMware NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director
Understand the use cases and purpose of the NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director
Discuss the supported topology and compatibility matrix
Understand the supported features
Understand the environmental prerequisites
Discuss how to prepare the edge cluster for bridging and use for migration
Build the userInput.yml file by providing the environment details
Perform a Precheck
Discuss error handling after Precheck
Perform the actual migration
Discuss troubleshooting tips and solutions
8 Monitoring and Billing VMware Cloud Director Networking
Discuss the methods to manage and monitor networking objects from the VMware Cloud Director portal
Understand vRealize Operations Manager and the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App overview
Discuss how to monitor VMware Cloud Director networking objects using vRealize Operations Manager
and vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
Create a policy and generate customer bills
Enable the tenant application plug-in for VMware Cloud Director
Describe the usage of Usage Meter with VMware Cloud Director
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.