As businesses increasingly adopt cloud technologies, IT professionals are expected to understand and manage complex environments that deliver agility, scalability, and efficiency. VMware vCloud Director is a powerful solution that enables organizations to build and operate secure private clouds, offering a unified platform for provisioning infrastructure and managing resources. By learning how to deploy and manage vCloud Director, you will gain the expertise to support enterprise-level cloud initiatives while ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
In this course, you will explore how to deploy and manage VMware vCloud Director within a private cloud environment. You will begin by examining the fundamentals of private cloud computing and its role in engineering and quality assurance solutions. From there, the course guides you through the installation, configuration, and management of a small private cloud, equipping you with practical skills to administer day-to-day operations effectively.
As your knowledge progresses, you will also work with advanced vCloud Director configurations to understand how the platform scales to meet enterprise demands. Key focus areas include resource allocation, tenant management, network and storage integration, and ensuring high availability within a cloud infrastructure. These capabilities are critical for supporting multi-tenant environments and enabling organizations to deliver Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to internal or external customers.
Through a combination of theory and practical exercises, this course emphasizes both the technical and operational aspects of vCloud Director. You will learn how administrators can optimize resource utilization, enforce security policies, and provide a consistent user experience, while also gaining insights into the end-user perspective of consuming cloud resources.
Delivered by Bittnet Training through VMware’s authorized partner network, this program ensures you receive instruction aligned with VMware’s official standards and best practices. By the end of the course, you will be prepared to confidently deploy and manage VMware vCloud Director, enabling your organization to harness the full potential of private cloud technology.
This course is aimed at consultants, systems engineers, data center administrators and cloud administrators.
Upon completion you will know how to:
Deploy vCloud Director
Manage vCloud Director to satisfy small private cloud business needs
Configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual data centers
Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and VMware vSphere® vApps™ to satisfy business needs
Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
Configure networking for organizations and vApps
Create an interface between vCloud Director and Microsoft Active Directory servers
Understand the interactions between VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters and vCloud Director
Students need to have:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]
VMware vCloud Director: Essentials/Fundamentals [V5.1]
Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking
Course Introduction
Review course goals
Review course objectives
Review the course outline
Recognize 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 integration with other VMware products such as VMware® vCenter™ Chargeback™ and VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager
Determine the licensing needs
VMware vCloud 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
VMware vCloud Providers
Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
Configure and manage storage for providers
Examine provider space allocation to an organization
Recognize VMware vSphere® 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
Basic Security
Describe role-based access
Create custom security roles
Describe and configure LDAP integration with Microsoft Active Directory
Describe single sign-on
Managing Cloud Resources
Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
Manage provider and organization virtual data centers
Managing VMware 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
Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual data centers
Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells
Organization Users
Describe the catalog tasks available to organization users of various roles
Describe the vApp tasks available to organization users in various roles
VMware vCloud Director Installation
Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
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