Overview:

To enable you to build true customer-centric solutions, this intensive workshop leverages a set of architectural discussions, hands-on lab exercises, and rich demonstrations of the software-defined data center (SDDC). This workshop focuses on helping you develop experience-based confidence in building solutions by investigating the VMware® software suite. Through intensive expert-to-expert training, this workshop turns product experts into solution experts.

Duration:  05 days.

Objectives:

-       Understand how VMware components interact with each other

-       Build the interactions between VMware vCloud® Suite components

-       Examine how component functionality can be extended

-       Understand what Operations Transformation is and how it relates to leveraging the SDDC

-       Understand IT Business Management in the context of the SDDC

-       Use VMware vCenter™ Orchestrator™ to interact with and extend the functionality of vCloud Suite and external components to meet customer requirements

-       Understand how Software Defined Networking provides opportunities in the SDDC

-       Understand Capacity Management, BCDR, Compliance and Log Management, and the VMware tools to manage them as key functions when operating the SDDC

Intended Audience:

-       Highly experienced VMware vSphere® system administrators and vSphere system integrators with extensive vSphere knowledge who are willing to work hard to achieve depth in many vSphere software areas

Prerequisites:

-       VCP5-DCV, VCP-Cloud or equivalent knowledge

-       Extensive hands-on product knowledge

Course outlines

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. Course Overview

• What is SDDC?
• Lab Logistics
• Traditional IT versus SDDC

3. Operations Transformation

• People, Process, Technology
• New Organizational Model for Cloud Operations
• Operations Transformation Capability Model 

4. Cost and Operations Management

• IT Business Management with other products
• Stakeholder input and output
• Virtual Machine cost calculations
• Public Cloud cost calculations

5. Service Development and Application Authoring

• VMware vCloud® Automation Center™
• vCloud Automation Center Application Services

6. Scaling Services

• How to incorporate scale into your implementations

7. DevOps

• Overview
• Tools

8. XaaS

• Advanced Service Designer
• vCenter Orchestrator
• Workflows
• VMware API introduction

9. Network Virtualization

• Software Defined Networking
• VMware NSX™
• NSX & vCloud Automation Center Integration

10. SDE Integration

• API Integration Points
• vCloud Automation Center IaaS Lifecycle

11. Application Performance Monitoring

• Using VMware vCenter™ Operations Manager™
• vCenter Operations Manager Integration
• Hyperic

12. Capacity Forecasting

• Extensible Capacity
• Stress & Workload
• Waste

13. Hybrid Cloud

• Hybrid versus traditional data center
• Options for hybrid expansion of traditional data centers
• VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™
• VMware vCloud Connector ® in the hybrid cloud
• vCloud Hybrid Service API

14. Private Capacity Discussion

• Manual Expansion
• Auto Deploy
• vCloud Automation Center & Physical Machines

15. Compliance & Log Management

• VMware vCenter Configuration Manager™
• Log Insight

16. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• Assessment of risk and priorities
• Definition of dependencies
• VMware vSphere App HA
• Virtual Machine Availability
• VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™