Content
1. Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2. Introduction to vCloud Director, Service Provider, and Tenant Portal
• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
• Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases
3. User Access Control
• Discuss users and groups
• Understand the custom roles
• List the user roles
• Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)
4. Working with Virtual Machines
• Create a standalone VM
• Perform VM operations
• Manage VM properties
5. Working with vApps
• Create VMs in a vApp
• Manage catalogs
• Share catalogs
• Discuss vApp templates
6. Organization VDC Networking
• Understand organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Describe the edge gateway services
• List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal
7. vApp Networking
• Create and manage vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Discuss vApp fencing
• Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks
8. vCloud Availability
• Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director
• Migrate VMs from cloud to cloud
• Migrate VMs from on-premises to cloud
9. vCloud Extensibility
• Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
• Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI™
10. Multisite Deployment and CPOM
• Discuss multisite deployments
• Configure cross VDC networking
• Define SDDC
• Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
• Use enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
11. Monitoring and Managing vCloud Director Resources
• Monitor resources from the tenant portal
• Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
• Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports
12. vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature
• Describe name disk feature
• Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
• Describe object storage extension