Course Overview
In this five-day course, you focus on deploying, configuring, integrating, designing, and managing VMware Cloud Director™ 10.x network objects with VMware NSX-TTM Data Center. This course also focuses on designing, integrating, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director™ 10.x with VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™.
This course also focuses on the VMware Cloud Director Migration tool, using which the system administrator can perform the actual migration by migrating the workload and networks of the organization VDC supported by VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere® to the organization VDC supported by NSX-T Data Center in the same organization.
This course also showcases how to monitor VMware Cloud Director networking objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™ and VMware vRealize® Operations Tenant App.
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere® 7.0 U1
- VMware Cloud Director 10.2.1
- VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.0.1
- VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4
- VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.1.1
- VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App 2.5
- VMware vCloud® Usage Meter™ 4.3
Who should attend
Service providers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses and equivalent knowledge is required:
- VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage
- Strong knowledge on NSX Data Center for vSphere
- Strong understanding in NSX Advanced Load Balancer
The following experience is helpful:
- Working at the Linux command line
- Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Understand NSX-T Data Center and the VMware Cloud Director fundamentals
- List the various NSX-T Data Center components
- List the use cases and topologies of VMware Cloud Director networks
- Discuss the VMware Cloud Director provider networking configuration
- Discuss the VMware Cloud Director tenant networking configuration
- Discuss the Data Center Group network
- Discuss VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ and its components
- Discuss NSX Advanced Load Balancer configuration and the integration with VMware Cloud Director
- Enable a layer 2 stretched network that spans across multiple VMware Cloud organization VDCs
- Showcase the importance of the VMware Cloud Director Migration Tool and its functionality
- Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and use VMware vRealize Operations Manager™ and vRealize Tenant App
This Advanced course is delivered directly by VMware.