VMware vCloud: Architecting the VMware Cloud (AVC)

At the end of the course, you should have an understanding of the VMware cloud and be able to:

• Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs
• Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources
• Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud
• Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles
• Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation

This course is designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud™ environment. Students will learn to appreciate the effects of design choices in VMware vSphere™, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCenter™ Chargeback, and the VMware® vShield Edge capability that is included with vCloud Director. The course culminates in a comprehensive workshop on VMware cloud design.

Design Labs The course is built on four design labs. In the final, 6-hour lab, students will design a complete vCloud architecture on either the service provider model or the private enterprise model.

• vCloud architecture network design lab
• vCloud architecture provider design lab
• vCloud architecture security design lab
• vCloud architecture design lab

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

VMware vCloud Director Architecture Review

• vCloud Director prerequisites
• Components of VMware cloud infrastructure
• Logical constructs in vCloud Director
• Cloud architecture fundamentals

VMware vCloud Architecture Models

• Service provider (public cloud) model
• Enterprise (private cloud) model
• Hybrid model
• Management clusters and resource groups
• Load balancing
• Roles and communications in multicell architectures

Designing Networks

• Types of vCloud Director networks
• vCloud Director Network Isolated networks
• vCloud Director network pools
• vCloud Director network management
• vCloud Director network security

Designing Storage

• vCloud storage resources
• Storage tiering
• Segmenting storage based on speed
• Storage leases
• Catalog storage
• Thin provisioning
• VMware Storage vMotion

Designing Providers

• Consumable resources
• Virtual datacenters
• Resource pools
• Organization and provider virtual datacenters
• Providers and networking
• Providers and storage

Designing Organizations

• Organization creation and resource pools in the provider virtual datacenters
• Accessing multiple provider virtual datacenters from one organization
• Organization administrator rights and responsibilities
• vApps
• Catalogs
• Organization networks and external networks

Designing Security

• Authentication and authorization
• Role-based access controls
• Organization administrators
• Organization security and LDAP integration
• Predefined roles
• Custom roles

Designing Chargeback

• Modules of consumption
• vCenter Chargeback metrics
• vCenter Chargeback server configuration
• vCenter Chargeback data collectors

VMware vCloud Architecture Design Review

• Multitenancy
• Network design
• Storage design
• Provider design
• Organization design
• Security design
• Chargeback design