VMware vCloud: Overview

Special notes

Review the Course Prerequisites prior to registration.

Course overview

This course demonstrates to technical personnel how the VMware vCloud™ solution delivers IT services in a cloud environment. The course focuses on enterprise usage in a private cloud but also includes information on how this approach supports moving to a hybrid or public cloud. Students perform hands-on labs to understand how IT resources are delivered and consumed in a vCloud environment. Instructors demonstrate the basics of how the vCloud solution abstracts, allocates, and meters IT resources in a vCloud environment. This course is 30% lecture, 50% hands-on labs, and 20% demonstration.

Prerequisites

• Thorough understanding of virtualization and vSphere capabilities will be helpful

Audience

• Technical influencers, high-level managers, and IT decision makers
• Consultants, engineers, and first-line support people wanting a first look at the vCloud solution

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Course objectives

• How cloud computing benefits both IT departments and their end users
• How the VMware® product portfolio supports the cloud computing approach
• How IT resources are delivered, consumed, metered, and secured in a vCloud environment

Course outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals
• Course learning objectives

Module 2: Introducing VMware vCloud

• Discuss some characteristics of delivering IT services in the cloud for consumers and providers
• Name the three cloud deployment environments
• Name the three types of services delivered in the cloud and to which type a given VMware product relates
• Recognize the VMware vCloud Director constructs used to abstract, allocate, and deliver resource in a VMware
vCloud implementation
• Discuss the purpose of each of the vCloud components
• List some of the benefits that cloud computing offers to IT organizations

Module 3: IT Server Delivery

• Describe how organization administrators deliver IT resources in a vCloud environment
• Manage and control access to content components, including catalogs, vApps, vApp templates, and media
• Explain how to share content between organizations
• Describe the purpose of leases, quotas, and limits

Module 4: Building a Private Cloud

• Summarize the eight basic tasks to provision and allocate resources
• Describe how each of the three resource allocation models allocate resources to a organization vDC
• Describe the three types of networks used in a private cloud
• Discuss the function of network pools
• Compare the three network pool backing options
• Name the three types of organization networks
• List some controls vCloud Director uses to secure networks
• Describe how to scale vCloud Director to large environments

Module 5: Cost Analysis and Reporting

• Summarize the function of each of the vCenter Chargeback architectural components
• Describe the basic workflow of using vCenter Chargeback in a vCloud infrastructure
• Recognize which resources vCenter Chargeback meters
• Name the components of a cost model
• Describe how cost models are used to generate reports
• Locate additional vCloud resources