1  Course Introduction
•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

2  Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design
•  Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
•  Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
•  Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
•  Discuss VMware Validated Design™
•  Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMWare
   Cloud Foundation™

3  VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
•  Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
•  Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
•  Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
•  Define switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
•  Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements

4  VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
•  Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
•  Describe how storage is provided to VMware Cloud Director
•  Configure and manage storage for Virtual Datacenters (VDCs)
•  Briefly discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 Gateways
•  Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server® and NSX-T Data Center
•  Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
•  Understand organization policies
•  Explain how to access an organization using various portals
•  Understand organization VDC
•  Discuss what is Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
•  Understand the use cases of Allocation Models

5  VMware Cloud Director User, Roles and Quota Management
•  Discuss user-bundle
•  Describe role-based access
•  Explain custom roles and rights
•  Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
•  Discuss OIDC authentication methods
•  Describe SAML identity provider

6  VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
•  Understand standalone VMs
•  Discuss the VM managing operations
•  Explain VM properties
•  Discuss deployment methods of vApps
•  Discuss the vApp managing operations
•  Discuss the vApp lease policies
•  Understand the vApps and VM actions
•  Explain vApp and VM badges

7  VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries
•  Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization
•  Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations
•  Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
•  Discuss vApp templates
•  Understand vApp template operations
•  Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
•  Discuss organization VDC templates

8  VMware Cloud Director Networking
•  Discuss organization VDC networks
•  List the types of organization VDC networks
•  Describe the edge gateway services
•  Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
•  Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
•  Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway
•  Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
•  Discuss vApp networks
•  List the various types of vApp networks
•  Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

9  VMware Cloud Director Storage and Compute
•  Describe named disks and shared named disks
•  Demonstrate how to attach and detach a named disk and a shared named disk
•  Describe methods of sharing the named disk
•  Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk
•  Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
•  Explain the storage policy capabilities
•  Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published
•  Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage
•  Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director
•  Describe the storage policy supported entities

10  Extensibility and UI Additional Features
•  Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick
   search
•  Understand vcd-cli supported commands
•  Discuss various vcd-cli tools

11  VMware Cloud Director Resource Monitoring
•  Identify log locations for VMware Cloud Director
•  Manage vSphere and cloud resources from VMware Cloud Director
•  Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals
•  Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
•  Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
•  Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack
•  Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports