Course Outline
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2. Design Principles and Process
- Follow a proven process to design and deploy a cloud solution
- Define customer business objectives
- Gather and analyze business and application requirements
- Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
- Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
- Explain the differences between conceptual, logical, and physical designs
3. Service Definition and Standardization
- Describe the technical foundation of cloud computing
- Explain the deployment models of cloud computing
- Describe the essential characteristics of cloud computing
- Describe the fundamental service characteristics of a VMware vCloud® solution
- Explain IT service concepts
- Describe a structured service development process
- List the potential components of a service-level agreement
- Describe a service catalog offered within a vCloud Director platform
4. vCloud Director Architecture and Components
- Describe the vCloud Director architecture
- Define sites and availability zones
- Review the vCloud Director components and explain their functions
5. vCloud Director Virtual Data Center Design
- Describe the design of a provider virtual data center and its relationship to the underlying vSphere infrastructure
- Define organizations, organization virtual data centers, networks, storage, catalogs, and vApps
6. Cloud Management and Resource Components
- Identify the management components in a vCloud Director environment
- Describe the use of management cluster concepts
- Design the vSphere, NSX, and necessary storage infrastructure
- Define the resource cluster design and use cases
- Link definitions to requirements
7. vCloud Director Integrations
- Describe the integration with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™, vRealize Business for Cloud, and VMware vRealize® Operations™
- Design integrations with third-party products
8. vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- Describe the vCloud Availability for vCloud Director architecture
- List the prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- Implement vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
9. Customer Onboarding
- Describe tenant layer 2 VPN access
- Describe tenant SSL VPN access
- Import existing VMware vCenter Server® managed infrastructure into vCloud Director