- Course Introduction
- Recognize VMware 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 how to charge for resources
- Determine the licensing needs
- Installing VMware vCloud Director
- Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
- Install vCloud Director
- VMware vCloud Director 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
- Share content in private, public, and hybrid clouds
- VMware vCloud Director Providers
- Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
- Configure and manage storage for providers
- Examine provider space allocation to an organization
- Recognize 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
- Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
- Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
- Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells
- Cloud Connectivity
- Configure Basic Firewalls in vCloud Director
- Describe a Network Troubleshooting Methodology
- Configure VPN Tunnels in vCloud Director
- Configure Static Routes in vCloud Director
- Describe VMware vCloud® Connector
- VMware vCloud Security
- Identify authentication and authorization tasks
- Describe and configure LDAP integration
- Describe single sign-on
- Cost Analysis and Reporting with VMware vCenter Chargeback
- Recognize which elements vCenter Chargeback meters for vCloud Director
- Describe how cost models are used to generate reports
- Summarize the function of each of the vCenter Chargeback architecture components
- Identify how to generate reports
- Generate different reports based on business needs
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
- Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Manage VMware vCenter Server™ instances
- Manage VMware ESXi™ hosts
- Manage vSphere datastores
- Manage stranded items
- Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
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