VMCADD71 - VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy v7.1

Module 1: Course Introduction 

• Introductions and course logistics. 
• Course objectives.

Module 2: Enterprise Design Principles 

• Create a design foundation for an enterprise cloud by identifying business requirements, typical business solutions, constraints, assumptions, and risks. 
• Create a conceptual design for an enterprise cloud. 
• Create a logical design for an enterprise cloud. 
• Use key enterprise design principles to create a vSphere infrastructure for the enterprise cloud.

Module 3: Security Infrastructure 

• Design a certificate authority architecture. 
• Create certificate signing requests for your vRealize Automation servers. 
• Create certificates for your vRealize Automation servers. 
• Use the VMware hardened virtual appliance. 
• Use VMware Identity Manager™.

Module 4: vRealize Automation 

• Distributed Architecture Design and deploy the vRealize Automation solution in a highly available, distributed architecture. 
• Use vRealize Orchestrator in external and internal clusters. 
• Use cloudutil.exe and skills to control which DEM servers are used with specific endpoints. 
• Describe the proper configuration of NSX load balancers for a highly available, distributed architecture.

Module 5: Administration Role Architecture 

• Design either an expanded administration role architecture or a compressed administration role architecture for an enterprise cloud.

Module 6: Tenants and Business Groups 

• Design an optimum tenant and business group architecture for your enterprise cloud, using either a single-tenant or a multitenant model.
• Describe the use of vRealize CloudClient in a multitenancy context.

Module 7: Cloud Resource Design 

• Design an enterprise cloud that is based on a multitiered architecture.
• Design naming standards in vRealize Automation to support your tenant-and-business group architecture. 
• Use composite blueprints in an enterprise deployment. 
• Use data center location in an enterprise deployment to control where systems are provisioned. 
• Design a unified self-service catalog. 
• Design service entitlements in an enterprise deployment. 
• Design and use governance and approvals.

Module 8: Extensibility and the Enterprise 

• Describe vCloud Air and elastic clouds. 
• Describe the role of vRealize Orchestrator in vRealize Automation extensibility. 
• Use IaaS extensibility and the vRealize Automation event broker system. 
• Extend vRealize Automation to an asset management system. 
• Extend vRealize Automation to an IP address management system. 
• Use NSX on-demand components.

Module 9: Enterprise Management 

• Use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ and the vRealize Automation management pack. 
• Use vRealize Log Insight in vRealize Automation enterprise management. 
• Manage costs. 
• Manage resource use. 
• Replace expired security certificates.

Experienced system administrators, cloud administrators, system integrators, and deployment consultants

This class requires understanding the concepts and topics presented in the following courses: 

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 
• VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage

This course is not associated with any Certification.