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Education Services VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals
English | AVI | 4hours | 1257 588 | Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, 320 Kbps

This course covers the features and functionality of the VMware vCloud Director product and what benefits the product offers in cloud.

Objectives. After completing this course, students should:

+ Know the prerequisites for a VCD 1.0 installation (hardware and co-requisite software)
+ Be able to perform initial setup of VCD in a Red Hat Linux virtual machine
+ Know how to install and configure vShield Manager
+ Understand critical VCD concepts: cell, organization, virtual datacenter, provider networks, organization networks, vApps, vApp networks, catalog
+ Understand the services that vShield Edge provides to VCD
+ Create an external network
+ Create a network pool of virtualmachine networks
+ Create an organization and allocate resources and networks to it
+ Build a vApp within the organization
+ Integrate the vApp into the catalog
+ Understand the relationship of VCD to Chargeback Manager 1.5

Module 1: VMware Cloud Director Overview
provides an overview of what cloud is, defines VMware vCloud Director, and describes the key capabilities of vCloud Director product.

Module learning objectives
+ Briefly explain cloud computing
+ Recognize cloud implementations
+ Identify VMware vCloud Director functions and benefits

Module 2: vCloud Director Architecture and Components
provides an overview of vCloud Director components, illustrates the vCloud Director architecture, defines vCloud Director component functions, and describes the how vShield Edge and Chargeback are integrated with vCloud Director.

Module learning objectives
+ Analyze vCloud Director architecture
+ Identify the vCloud Director components and their functions
+ Examine how to charge for resources
+ And determine the licensing needs

Module 3: vCloud Director Installation and Configuration
reviews vCloud Director components, discusses the prerequisites for the vCloud Director installation, describes the installation process, demonstrates the configuration steps and finally discusses the post installation steps.

Module learning objectives
+ Recognize the prerequisites for vCloud Director installation
+ Illustrate vCloud Director software installation
+ Demonstrate configuring vCloud Director software

Module 4: vCloud Director Administration
covers vCloud Director administration tasks which include how to create and manage organizations, catalogs, cells, users, roles, and compute resources.

Module learning objectives
+ Differentiate the vCloud Director terminologies
+ Configure and manage vSphere resources
+ Configure and manage cloud resources
+ Create and provision organizations
+ Create and manage catalogs
+ Utilize roles and rights to control access
+ Recognize the different admin roles within vCloud Director

Module 5: Network Administration In vCloud Director
covers vCloud Director network administration tasks which include how to create and manage different types of networks, and requirements and constraints for network pools.

Module learning objectives
+ Recognize types of networks in vCloud Director
+ Create and manage the networks
+ Identify different types of network pools

Module 6: vCloud Director User
covers deployment and maintenance, which includes understanding how organizations and roles give access to different functions, how to work within the catalogs, and using vApp templates.

Module learning objectives
+ Recognizing user tasks and privileges
+ Identifying how to work with vCloud Director as a use
Education Services VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals