Overview This course is designed to guide you through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud™ environment. You 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
Pre-Requisites
- VCP-level knowledge of vSphere
- General-purpose vSphere design experience, with emphasis on networking and storage
- Exposure to the product features and functionality of vCloud Director, vSphere, vShield Edge, and vCenter Chargeback is required
Next Course Dates
| June | | | |
| 25 Jun - 27 Jun, 2012 | Hamburg (Germany) | | | Request Space |
| July | | | |
| 09 Jul - 11 Jul, 2012 | Eindhoven (Vestdijk 30) (Netherlands) | | | Request Space |
| 23 Jul - 25 Jul, 2012 | Mechelen (Zandvoortstraat 1) (Belgium) | | | Request Space |
| August | | | |
| 13 Aug - 15 Aug, 2012 | Frankfurt (Germany) | | | Request Space |
| September | | | |
| 10 Sep - 12 Sep, 2012 | Stockholm (Sweden) | | | Request Space |
| 17 Sep - 19 Sep, 2012 | Amsterdam (Kingsfordweg 43) (Netherlands) | | | Request Space |
| October | | | |
| 08 Oct - 10 Oct, 2012 | München (Germany) | | | Request Space |
| 22 Oct - 24 Oct, 2012 | Mechelen (Zandvoortstraat 1) (Belgium) | | | Request Space |
| November | | | |
| 19 Nov - 21 Nov, 2012 | Hamburg (Germany) | | | Request Space |
| December | | | |
| 05 Dec - 07 Dec, 2012 | Nieuwegein (Iepenhoeve 5) (Netherlands) | | | Request Space |
| January | | | |
| 14 Jan - 16 Jan, 2013 | Frankfurt (Germany) | | | Request Space |
| March | | | |
| 04 Mar - 06 Mar, 2013 | München (Germany) | | | Request Space |
More Information
Sales partners, customers, consultants, and sales engineers who are responsible for designing public and private cloud architectures with VMware products
- 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
1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2. VMware vCloud Director Architecture Review
- vCloud Director prerequisites
- Components of VMware cloud infrastructure
- Logical constructs in vCloud Director
- Cloud architecture fundamentals
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
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
5. Designing Storage
- vCloud storage resources
- Storage tiering
- Segmenting storage based on speed
- Storage leases
- Catalog storage
- Thin provisioning
- VMware Storage vMotion
6. Designing Providers
- Consumable resources
- Virtual datacenters
- Resource pools
- Organization and provider virtual datacenters
- Providers and networking
- Providers and storage
7. Designing Organizations
- Organization creation and resource pools in the provider virtual datacenters
- Accessing multiple provider virtual datacenters from one organization
- Organization administrator rights and responsibilities
- vApps
- Catalogs
- Organization networks and external networks
8. Designing Security
- Authentication and authorization
- Role-based access controls
- Organization administrators
- Organization security and LDAP integration
- Predefined roles
- Custom roles
9. Designing Chargeback
- Modules of consumption
- vCenter Chargeback metrics
- vCenter Chargeback server configuration
- vCenter Chargeback data collectors
10. VMware vCloud Architecture Design Review
- Multitenancy
- Network design
- Storage design
- Provider design
- Organization design
- Security design
- Chargeback design