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CVF 2120 - Cloud Infrastructure: Deployment and Management

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3Lab None
Course Description: This course explores how to orchestrate the provisioning of software-defined data center services as complete virtual data centers that are ready for consumption in a matter of minutes. Virtual data centers provide virtualized computing, networking, storage, and security so that administrators can rapidly provision the complete set of services necessary to make workloads operational in minutes. This course uses vCloud Director and open stack throughout the hands-on labs to demonstrate how software-defined data center services and the virtual data centers fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning, and enable IT to move at the speed of business. The VMware Certified Professional (VCP) exam is part of this course.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): CVF 1065 , CVF 1091 , and CVF 1092  with a grade of C or higher OR instructor consent. System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Course Introduction
    1. Review course goals
    2. Review course objectives
    3. Review the course outline
    4. Recognize VMware vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements
  2. VMware vCloud Director Providers
    1. Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
    2. Configure and manage storage for providers
    3. Examine provider space allocation to an organization
    4. Recognize Storage vMotion issues
    5. Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines
  3. VMware vCloud Director Organizations
    1. Create and manage organizations
    2. Recognize resource allocations for an organization
    3. Create and manage catalogs
  4. Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
    1. Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
    2. Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells
  5. Cloud Connectivity
    1. Configure Basic Firewalls in vCloud Director
    2. Describe a Network Troubleshooting Methodology
    3. Configure VPN Tunnels in vCloud Director
    4. Configure Static Routes in vCloud Director
    5. Describe VMware vCloud® Connector
  6. VMware vCloud Security
    1. Identify authentication and authorization tasks
    2. Describe and configure LDAP integration
    3. Describe single sign-on
  7. Cost Analysis and Reporting with VMware vCenter Chargeback
    1. Recognize which elements vCenter Chargeback meters for vCloud Director
    2. Describe how cost models are used to generate reports
    3. Summarize the function of each of the vCenter Chargeback architecture components
    4. Identify how to generate reports
    5. Generate different reports based on business needs
  8. Managing vSphere Resources
    1. Manage VMware vCenter Server¿ instances
    2. Manage VMware ESXi¿ hosts
    3. Manage vSphere datastores
    4. Manage stranded items
    5. Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
  9. Managing Cloud Resources
    1. Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
    2. Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters
  10. VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components
    1. Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach
    2. Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
    3. Examine how to charge for resources
    4. Determine the licensing needs
  11. Installing VMware vCloud Director
    1. Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
    2. Install vCloud Director
  12. VMware vCloud Director Networking
    1. Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
    2. Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
    3. Describe the function of network pools
    4. Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps
    5. Share content in private, public, and hybrid clouds

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. explain the features and operation of VMware vCloud® Director
  2. deploy vCloud Director.
  3. manage vCloud Director to satisfy private, public, and hybrid cloud business needs.
  4. configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual data centers.
  5. create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs.
  6. create and manage vCloud Director catalogs.
  7. configure networking for organizations and vApps.
  8. connect organizations with VPN tunnels and static routes.
  9. interface vCloud Director to Open LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory servers.
  10. configure network security between vCloud Director vApps and organizations with VMware vShield Edge firewalls.
  11. use VMware vCenter Chargeback to meter vCloud Director resources.
  12. explain the interactions between VMware vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler clusters and vCloud Director.


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