VMware Education – vCloud Director Training

What offers VMware vCloud Director Training?

To stay sharp and current, one must get trained fairly often. A good start is the VMware Install, Configure, Manage for vSphere 5 which is necessary to pass the VCP 5 Certification exam. But what’s next? What would be the next step? With many offerings for VMware Training you might be interested in a VMware vCloud Director Training available at the official VMware Education Website. This Training has got a lot to offer during 3 days of training. Not only vCloud director, but also other products. VMware vCenter™ Chargeback and VMware® vShield Edge.

To get the necessary knowledge, get tought by professionals on-line or at the nearest location, this training is one of the trainings which data-center admins and IT pros working with VMware infrastructures might be considering attending.

Students will learn the necessary design, the components, the configuration and integration with existing vSphere Infrastructure. Here is what students will be able to achieve after attending this course:

- 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

See the course Outline below:

Get more details at the vCloud Director page course here.

VMware Education vCloud Director Training

Course Introduction:
- Introductions and course logistics
-  Course objectives

 VMware vCloud Director Architecture Review:
-  vCloud Director prerequisites
-  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:
-   Types of vCloud Director networks
-   vCloud Director Network Isolated networks
-   vCloud Director network pools
-   vCloud Director network management
-   vCloud Director network security

Designing Storage:
-   vCloud storage resources
-   Storage tiering
-   Segmenting storage based on speed
-   Storage leases
-   Catalog storage
-   Thin provisioning
-   VMware Storage vMotion

Designing Providers:
-   Consumable resources
-   Virtual datacenters
-   Resource pools
-   Organization and provider virtual datacenters
-   Providers and networking
-   Providers and storage

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
-   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

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

Source: VMware Education

 

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