Duration: 3 Days
This course is designed to guide you through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud® environment. You will learn the effects of design choices in VMware vSphere®, VMware vCloud Director™, VMware vCenter™ Chargeback™, and the VMware vShield Edge™ capability that is included with vCloud Director. The course culminates in a comprehensive hands-on lab, where you will design a complete Cloud architecture on either the service provider model or the private enterprise model.
What You Will Learn
- Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address private and public cloud customer needs
- Configure vCloud providers to accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources
- Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud
- Integrate vCloud Director security with existing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles
- Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation
Audience
VMware sales partners, customers, consultants, and sales engineers responsible for designing public and private cloud architectures with VMware products
Prerequistes
- VCP-level knowledge of vSphere
- General vSphere design experience, with special emphasis on networking and storage
- Exposure to the features and functionality of vCloud Director, vSphere, vShield Edge, and vCenter Chargeback
Course Outline
1. VMware vCloud Director Architecture
- Components of VMware Cloud Infrastructure
- Logical Constructs in vCloud Director
- Cloud Architecture Fundamentals
2. VMware vCloud Architecture Models
- Service Provider (Public Cloud) Model
- Enterprise (Private Cloud) Model
- Hybrid Model
- Management Clusters and Resource Groups
- Load Balancing
- Roles and Communications in Multicell Architectures
3. Designing Networks
- General Network Design Principles
- Connectivity between Networks and Clouds
- Virtual Switches
- Port Groups
- Network Pools
- Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
4. Designing Providers
- Designing Storage
- Storage Tiering
- Linked Clones and Fast Provisioning
- Virtual Datacenters
- Resource Pools
- Organization and Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Providers and Networking
5. Designing Organizations
- Organization Creation and Resource Pools in the Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Accessing Multiple Provider Virtual Datacenters from One Organization
- Organization Administrator Rights and Responsibilities
- VMware vSphere vApps™
- Catalogs
- Organization Networks and External Networks
6. Designing Security
- Authentication and Authorization
- Role-Based Access Controls
- Organization Administrators
- Organization Security and LDAP Integration
- Predefined Roles
- Custom Roles
- Five-Way vShield Edge Device Firewall
7. Designing Chargeback
- Modules of Consumption
- vCenter Chargeback Metrics
- vCenter Chargeback Server Configuration
- vCenter Chargeback Data Collectors
8. VMware vCloud Architecture Design
- Multitenancy
- Network Design
- Storage Design
- Provider Design
- Organization Design
- Security Design
- Chargeback Design
Course Labs
Lab 1: vCloud Architecture Network Design
Lab 2: vCloud Architecture Provider Design
Lab 3: vCloud Architecture Security Design
Lab 4: vCloud Architecture Design
