• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]
• VMware vCloud Director: Essentials/Fundamentals [V5.1]
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking

Delegates

• Consultants, systems engineers, data centre administrators, and cloud administrators

• 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

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 centres

Managing VMware vSphere Resources

• Manage VMware® vCenter Server™ instances 
• Manage VMware® ESXi™ hosts 
• Manage vSphere data stores 
• 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 
• Install vCloud Director