VMware vCloud Director 8.2: Install, Configure, Manage (VCDICM)

Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment

This course requires completion of the following course: VMware vSphere 6.5: Install, Configure, Manage (VICM) or equivalent knowledge

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Design a vCloud Director environment
• Deploy vCloud Director
• Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
• Configure vSAN and VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual data centers
• Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
• Transfer virtual machine workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
• Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between a public cloud and a private cloud
• Create an interface between vCloud Director and Microsoft Active Directory servers
• Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios with vCloud Director

In this five-day course, you will focus on designing, installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® 8.20 for Service Providers. You will learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers, and catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks, as well as the integrated use of VMware vSAN™. This course also covers interfacing vCloud Director with other systems through the use of various APIs.

Product Alignment

• vCloud Director 8.20
• vSAN 6.2 and later
• NSX 6.2 and later