Cloud Computing

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