Cloud Computing
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Vmware vCloud 1.5 Fast Track
Who should attend:
Sales partners, customers, consultants, and sales engineers who are responsible for designing public and private cloud architectures with VMware products
This intensive, extended hours, five day, instructor-led fast-track course demonstrates to technical personnel how to deploy and Design VMware vCloud® for a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment and manage the ongoing operation of the deployment. The course focuses on the private and public vCloud solutions but also includes information on how this approach supports a hybrid solution. This course is also designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud® environment. Students will learn to appreciate 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 workshop on VMware cloud design.
Design Labs
The vCloud Design element of this course is built on four design labs. In the final, 6-hour lab, students will design a complete Cloud architecture on either the service provider model or the private enterprise model.
- vCloud architecture network design lab
- vCloud architecture provider design lab
- vCloud architecture security design lab
- vCloud architecture design lab
- Deploy vCloud Director
- Manage vCloud Director to satisfy private, public, and hybrid cloud business needs
- Configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual datacenters
- Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
- Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
- Configure networking for organizations and vApps
- Connect organizations with VPN tunnels and static routes
- Interface vCloud Director to OpenLDAP and Microsoft Active Directory servers
- Configure network security between vCloud Director vApps and organizations with VMware vShield Edge™ firewalls
- Use VMware vCenter Chargeback™ to meter vCloud Director resources
- Understand the interactions between VMware vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler clusters and vCloud Director.
- Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs.
- Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources.
- Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud.
- Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles.
- Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation.
From “VMware vCloud: Deploy and Manage the VMware Cloud (v 1.5)”
Course Introduction
- Review course goals
- Review course objectives
- Review the course outline
- Recognize VMware vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements
VMware vCloud Director Architecture and Components
- Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach
- Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
- Examine how to charge for resources
- Determine the licensing needs
Installing VMware vCloud Director
- Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
- Install vCloud Director
VMware vCloud Director Networking
- Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
- Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
- Describe the function of network pools
- Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps
- Share content in private, public, and hybrid clouds
VMware vCloud Director Providers
- Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
- Configure and manage storage for providers
- Examine provider space allocation to an organization
- Recognize Storage vMotion issues
- Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines
VMware vCloud Director Organizations
- Create and manage organizations
- Recognize resource allocations for an organization
Create and manage catalogs
- Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
- Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
- Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells
Cloud Connectivity
- Configure Basic Firewalls in vCloud Director
- Describe a Network Troubleshooting Methodology
- Configure VPN Tunnels in vCloud Director
- Configure Static Routes in vCloud Director
- Describe VMware vCloud® Connector
VMware vCloud Security
- Identify authentication and authorization tasks
- Describe and configure LDAP integration
- Describe single sign-on
Cost Analysis and Reporting with VMware vCenter Chargeback
- Recognize which elements vCenter Chargeback meters for vCloud Director
- Describe how cost models are used to generate reports
- Summarize the function of each of the vCenter Chargeback architecture component
- Identify how to generate reports
- Generate different reports based on business needs
Managing Cloud Resources
- Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
- Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters
Managing vSphere Resources
- Manage VMware vCenter Server™ instances
- Manage VMware ESXi™ hosts
- Manage vSphere datastores
- Manage stranded items
- Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
From “VMware vCloud 1.5: Design Best Practices“
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
VMware vCloud Director Architecture Review
- Components of VMware cloud infrastructure
- Logical constructs in vCloud Director
- Cloud architecture fundamentals
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
Designing Networks
- General network design principles
- Connectivity between networks and clouds
- Virtual switches
- Port groups
- Network pools
- VLANs
Designing Providers
- Designing storage
- Storage tiering
- Linked clones and fast provisioning
- Virtual datacenters
- Resource pools
- Organization and provider virtual datacenters
- Providers and networking
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
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
Designing Chargeback
- Modules of consumption
- vCenter Chargeback metrics
- vCenter Chargeback server configuration
- vCenter Chargeback data collectors
VMware vCloud Architecture Design Review
- Multitenancy
- Network design
- Storage design
- Provider design
- Organization design
- Security design
- Chargeback design
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