VMware vCloud: Architecting the VMware Cloud [V1]

VMware vCloud: Architecting the VMware Cloud [V1]

Course Overview

This course is designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud™ environment. Students will learn to appreciate the effects of design choices in VMware vSphere™, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCenter™ Chargeback, and the VMware® vShield Edge capability that is included with vCloud Director. The course culminates in a comprehensive workshop on VMware cloud design.

Power Cloud Solutions resells this course on behalf of VMware Australia Pty. Ltd. All courses are delivered using authorised trainers and materials.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should have an understanding of the VMware cloud and be able to :

• Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs
• Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources
• Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud
• Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles
• Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation

Who Should Attend

This course is suitable for Sales partners, customers, consultants and sales engineers who are responsible for designing public and private cloud architectures with VMware products

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: VMware vCloud Director Architecture Review

• vCloud Director prerequisites
• Components of VMware cloud infrastructure
• Logical constructs in vCloud Director
• Cloud architecture fundamentals

Module 3: VMware vCloud Architecture Models

• Service provider (public cloud) model
• Enterprise (private cloud) model
• Hybrid model
• Management clusters and resource groups
• Load balancing
• Roles and communications in multicell architectures

Module 4: Designing Networks

• Types of vCloud Director networks
• vCloud Director Network Isolated networks
• vCloud Director network pools
• vCloud Director network management
• vCloud Director network security

Module 5: Designing Storage

• vCloud storage resources
• Storage tiering
• Segmenting storage based on speed
• Storage leases
• Catalog storage
• Thin provisioning
• VMware Storage vMotion

Module 6: Designing Providers

• Consumable resources
• Virtual datacenters
• Resource pools
• organisation and provider virtual datacenters
• Providers and networking
• Providers and storage

Module 7: Designing organisations

• organisation creation and resource pools in the provider virtual datacenters
• Accessing multiple provider virtual datacenters from one organisation
• organisation administrator rights and responsibilities
• vApps
• Catalogs
• organisation networks and external networks

Module 8: Designing Security

• Authentication and authorization
• Role-based access controls
• organisation administrators
• organisation security and LDAP integration
• Predefined roles
• Custom roles

Module 9: Designing Chargeback

• Modules of consumption
• vCenter Chargeback metrics
• vCenter Chargeback server configuration
• vCenter Chargeback data collectors

Module 10: VMware vCloud Architecture Design Review

• Multitenancy
• Network design
• Storage design
• Provider design
• organisation design
• Security design
• Chargeback design