VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Workshop (V10.2)

1. Advanced VMware Cloud Director Architecture

• Explain the basic concepts and terminologies in a VMware Cloud Director environment
• Describe the basic architecture of a VMware Cloud Director environment
• Follow a proven process to design and deploy a cloud solution
• Gather and analyze business and application requirements
• Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
• Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
• Explain the differences between conceptual, logical, and physical designs
• Describe the concepts of Provider SLAs
• Discuss the advantages of standardized and flexible cloud platforms
• Explain how you can use a building-block design approach with VMware products to architect a flexible but standardized cloud environment
• Impact on Monetization of service definitions
• Discuss the design and implications of a vSphere Design for the Cloud Platform
• Explain the use of Single vs. Stretched vs. Multi-Site deployments
• Design Cloud Director Federation
• Explain use cases for CPOM

2. NSX for vSphere Versus NSX-T Data Center and Migration

• Describe the NSX Management cluster architecture, components, and communication channels
• Identify the workflows involved in configuring the NSX Management cluster
• Validate and troubleshoot the NSX Management cluster formation
• Explain basic concepts of NSX-V and NSX-T design with VMware Cloud Director
• Discuss the use cases for Edge Services
• Discuss the use cases for Distributed Network Services
• Discuss the features available in NSX-V and NSX-T
• Explain the integration of external networks (such as MPLS, DirectConnect)
• Explain the integration of 3rd party network services (NON-VMware Edge Services, WAF)
• Discuss different migration scenarios
• Explain pre-requisites for migration from NSX-V to NSX-T

3. NSX Advanced Load Balancer

• Explain basic concepts of NSX Advanced Load Balancer
• Explain the integration of NSX Advanced Load Balancer with VMware Cloud Director
• Discuss the use cases for NSX Advanced Load Balancer
• Explain the load-balancing service offered by an NSX-T edge gateway

4. VMware Cloud Director Availability

• Describe the architecture of VMware Cloud Director Availability
• Explain the prerequisites of VMware Cloud Director Availability
• Discuss the implementation of VMware Cloud Director Availability
• Discuss the use cases for migration with VMware Cloud Director Availability
• Explain setup of data seeds for VMware Cloud Director Availability
• Discuss the use cases for Disaster Recover as a Service with VMware Cloud Director Availability
• Explain connectivity for VMware Cloud Director Availability to Cloud use cases
• Understand requirements for VMware Cloud Director Availability OnPrem to Cloud failover and failback

5. vRealize Operations Manager and Tenant App

• Describe the architecture of vRealize Operations in a Service Provider
• Describe the architecture of vRealize Operations Tenant App
• Explain the use cases for vRealize Operations Tenant App
• Explain use cases for vRealize Operations Manager in Service Provider environments
• Discuss vRealize Operations Manager Management Packs
• Explain advanced troubleshooting in service provider environments with vRealize Operations Manager
• Discuss architecture and integration of vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
• Explain connectivity of the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
• Discuss user and role management of the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App
• Describe billing policy definition in the vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App

6. VMware Cloud Director Orchestration

• Explain VMware Cloud Director orchestration
• Explain vRealize Orchestrator use cases
• Describe the architecture of vRealize Orchestrator in a Service Provider environment
• Explain use cases for VMware Cloud Director blocking tasks
• Explain use cases for XaaS Integration
• Design workflows, objects
• Discuss UI customization for Service Provider and Tenants
• Explain integration of custom elements in VMware Cloud Director
• Explain use cases for Extensibility SDK