Introduction
Hello to all readers of the blog about IT Architecture and Training!
In the previous article of the “VMware Training and Certification. Year 2025” series, we explored VMware Cloud Foundation as a standardized platform for building and operating private and hybrid cloud infrastructures based on the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) model.
In this article, we shift the focus from infrastructure platforms to cloud service delivery and consumption models and examine VMware Cloud Director – a key solution for designing, deploying, and operating multi-tenant cloud environments.
The VMware Cloud Director learning domain includes training programs focused on cloud service abstraction, tenant isolation, resource pooling, self-service portals, and policy-based management. These programs are especially relevant for cloud architects, service providers, and enterprise teams building internal cloud platforms (private cloud) or offering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions.
In this article, we will review the current VMware Authorized Training programs for VMware Cloud Director, analyze their structure and learning objectives, and explain how they align with VMware certification paths and real-world cloud architectures.
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: Deploy, Configure, Manage [V10.6]
- Course code: VCDDCM106.
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Professional.
- 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];
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0].
In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.6. You will learn how to set up and manage VMware Cloud Director, including the provisioning of workloads, creating organizations and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), and use catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps.
Brief Summary
In this article, we examined VMware Cloud Director as a key platform for delivering and managing cloud services in multi-tenant environments. We reviewed its role in abstracting infrastructure resources, enabling self-service cloud consumption, and enforcing policy-based governance and tenant isolation. The overview of VMware Authorized Training programs highlighted how Cloud Director supports cloud service providers and enterprise IT teams in building scalable, secure, and operationally efficient cloud service platforms.
In the next article of the “VMware Training and Certification. Year 2025” series, we will shift our focus from infrastructure and service delivery to modern application platforms and explore VMware Tanzu. We will review training programs dedicated to Kubernetes, container platforms, and cloud-native application architectures, highlighting Tanzu’s role in bridging traditional virtualized environments with modern, cloud-native workloads.
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