Introduction
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In the previous article of the series “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we considered a list of training programs in the direction of Multi-Cloud: VMware vRealize Log Insight.
Today we will talk about the main training programs in the field Multi-Cloud: VMware vCloud Director and Cloud Director.
VMware vCloud Director
VMware vCloud Director (VMware vCD) is a platform with multi-tenant support for managing software-defined data centers (SDDC) and providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to customers. This solution is adapted for managed service providers (MSPs).
The main current training programs for VMware vCloud Director technologies are:
● VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V9.7]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Professional.
- Target audience: Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
- Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge;
- Completion of the following eLearning courses is recommended:
- VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x];
- VMware vSAN and HCI Fundamentals;
- VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals;
- Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.
In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.x. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware vCloud Director with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director. You will also understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director and configuring Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director.
This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware
vRealize Operations, Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize Log Insight.
● VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations [V10.x]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Professional.
- Target audience: Experienced service provider customers, system engineers, data center administrators, and tenant administrators with experience in a managed services environment.
- Prerequisites: This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage;
- VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage.
In this five-day course, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of virtual datacenter networks, vApp and its networks, catalog services that include predefined virtual machines (VMs), and on-demand VMware NSX networks.
This course covers integrating VMware vCloud Director with VMware vRealize Orchestrator and the use of VMware vCloud Availability. You learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You also learn how to use Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant users of vCloud Director.
This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize Operations Manager.
● VMware vCloud Director: Design Workshop [V9.x]
- Duration: 4 days.
- Level of difficulty: Advanced.
- Target audience: Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment.
- Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:
- VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge.
- Completion of the following courses is recommended:
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage;
- VMware NSX: Design and Deploy;
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage;
- VMware vSphere: Design Workshop.
This four-day training course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to design a VMware vCloud Director 9.x infrastructure. You will follow a proven approach to design a virtualization solution that ensures availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, and security, and that uses VMware best practices. A case study will guide you through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing vCloud Director. You will learn to appreciate the effects of design choices in VMware vSphere 6.x, vCloud Director, VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director, VMware NSX, and VMware vRealize Business for Cloud, as well as the integration with other VMware and third-party products. You will also learn about self-service provisioning, the effects of organizations, virtual data centers, catalog services, and on-demand NSX networks.
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.
The main current training programs for VMware Cloud Director technologies are:
● VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.1]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Professional.
- Target audience: Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
- Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge;
- Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.
In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director 10.x. You learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX networks. This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware Cloud Director Availability. You also learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking, and configuring Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Data Center (SDDC) for a tenant and provider users of VMware Cloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize Operations and discusses administering tenant facing applications using vRealize Operations Tenant App.
● VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Workshop [V10.2]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Advanced.
- Target audience: Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
- Prerequisites: Completion of the following courses or equivalent knowledge is required:
- VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage;
- VMware vRealize Automation: Orchestration and Extensibility;
- VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage.
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to design and utilize a cloud solution based on VMware Cloud Director. Besides learning about an advanced cloud architecture, you learn about the integration of VMware Cloud Director with the products VMware Cloud Director Availability, VMware vRealize Orchestrator, VMware vRealize Operations (including the Tenant App), VMware NSX-T Data Center and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks).
This course covers the migration from VMware NSX for vSphere (NSX-V) to VMware NSX-T Data Center in a VMware Cloud Director environment. You learn about how the NSX Advanced Load Balancer can be used and integrated in a service provider environment and how to configure the load balancing services using VMware NSX-T Data Center. Besides the advanced know-how of the vRealize Operations Tenant App and Cloud Availability, the course also discusses the extensibility and orchestration of workflows in Cloud Director. For all the topics covered in the class, intensive hands-on labs will be taken by the students to provide proper insights into all the products.
Brief Summary
In this article, we got acquainted with the main training programs in the field of Multi-Cloud: VMware vCloud Director and Cloud Director.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Season 2021-2022” we will talk about training programs in the field of Virtual Cloud Network: NSX for vSphere.
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