VMware vCloud NFV with vCloud Director [V9.7] (NFVVCD97)

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

vCloud NFV Overview

• Define the benefits of vCloud NFV
• Describe a sample vCloud NFV solution
• Describe the vCloud NFV architecture

NFV Infrastructure

• Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
• Describe the advantages and components of the NFV infrastructure (NFVI)
• Explain the role of network virtualization in the NFVI
• Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
• Describe the vSAN architecture and the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures
• Explain the purpose of virtual machine storage policies
• Describe network virtualization with NSX

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)

• Describe the VMware products for the VIM layer
• Explain basic concepts related to vCloud Director
• Describe the relationship between provider VDCs (Virtual Data Centers) and organization VDCs
• Describe how vSAN integrates with vCloud Director
• Create vSAN storage policies
• Describe the components and basic configuration of the vCloud Director architecture
• Create resource pools

vCloud Providers

• Describe how compute and storage resources are provided to vCloud Director
• Describe provider VDC requirements and best practices
• Create provider VDCs
• Describe the VNF on-boarding process

vCloud Director Organizations

• Describe and create vCloud Director organizations
• Discuss vCloud Director HTML5 UI
• Discuss HTML5-based provider portal
• Discuss tenant portal
• Discuss the use cases of a vCloud Director organization VDC
• Discuss organization VDC allocation models
• Recognize resource allocations for an organization
• Examine the function and requirements of network pools.
• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
• Discuss the organization network types
• Create and manage organization VDC networks
• Add a catalog to an organization
• Populate, share, and publish catalogs
• Manage access to vApps and catalogs
• Modify the configuration of vApps and their virtual machines (VMs)
• Manage organization VDC networking
• Create affinity and anti-affinity rules

vCloud Director Security

• Describe role-based access
• Create custom security roles
• Integrate Directory Service with vCloud Director
• Integrate LDAP, SAML, SSL, Kerberos, and OAuth2 with vCloud Director
• Configure SSO

vCloud Director Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX® EdgeTM services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
• Review routing with the distributed logical router and Edge services gateways in combination with vCloud Director
• Firewall management in vCloud Director with Edge services gateways and the distributed firewall
• Architecture of VMware NSX-T™ (Basic)
• vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T
• Discuss multisite
• Configure Cross VDC networking

Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs
• Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Manage resource pools at the vSphere level
• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
• Use the cell management tool
• Manage provider VDC and Org-VDC
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Log Insight
• Describe the components for NVFI operations management
• Use VMware vRealize® BusinessTM for cost management
• Review historical virtual machine metrics in vCloud Director
• View vCloud Director logs

vCloud Extensibility

• Introduce container service extension
• Explore vCloud Director CLI
• Use Python SDK for vApp deployment
• Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities
• Use VMware vRealize® OrchestratorTM Plug-in for vCloud Director

Day 2 Operations

• Identify log locations for vCloud Director
• Navigate through vCloud Director logs
• Capture vCloud Director log bundles