Introduction
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In the previous article of the series “VMware Training. Year 2023″ 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 Cloud Director.
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 [V10.4]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Intermediate (L300).
- Target audience: Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
- Prerequisites: This course requires completion of the following course and equivalent knowledge:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] or equivalent knowledge.
- The following experience is helpful:
- Working at the Linux command line;
- Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts.
In this five-day course, you will focus on installing, configuring and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.4. You will learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines (VMs), and on-demand VMware NSX-T Data Center networks. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an
organization administrator can configure and use with VMs.
This course also covers the UI enhancements of VMware Cloud Director, the new licensing model and UI enhancements with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer, and the L2 and L3 VPN enhancements in VMware Cloud Director. You will learn
about defining segment profile templates to organization VDC networks and vApp networks, and configuring DHCP, static routes, and no distributed routing in VMware Cloud Director.
This course explains how to integrate and implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director as well as how to use API access tokens and service accounts for programmatic access to
VMware Cloud Director.
● VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.3]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Intermediate (L300).
- Target audience: Cloud architects, systems engineers, datacenter administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
- Prerequisites: Completion of the following courses and equivalent knowledge is required:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.x] or equivalent knowledge.
- The following experience is helpful:
- Working at the Linux command line;
- Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts.
In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director 10.3. 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-T Data Center networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware vRealize Orchestrator for VMware Cloud Director. You learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines (VMs). This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize Operations.
● VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center [V10.2]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Advanced (L400+).
- Target audience: Service providers, 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 and equivalent knowledge is required:
- VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage;
- VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage;
- Strong knowledge on NSX Data Center for vSphere;
- Strong understanding in NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
- The following experience is helpful:
- Working at the Linux command line;
- Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts.
In this five-day course, you focus on deploying, configuring, integrating, designing, and managing VMware Cloud Director 10.x network objects with VMware NSX-T Data Center. This course also focuses on designing, integrating, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director 10.x with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
This course also focuses on the VMware Cloud Director Migration tool, using which the system administrator can perform the actual migration by migrating the workload and networks of the organization VDC supported by VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere to the organization VDC supported by NSX-T Data Center in the same organization.
This course also showcases how to monitor VMware Cloud Director networking objects using VMware vRealize Operations and VMware vRealize Operations Tenant App.
● VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Workshop [V10.2]
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Advanced (L400+).
- 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 Cloud Director.
In the next publication of the cycle “VMware Training. Year 2023″ we will talk about training programs in the field of Virtual Cloud Network: VMware NSX-T Data Center.
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