VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Enterprise Design Principles

• Create a design foundation for an enterprise cloud by identifying business requirements, typical business solutions, constraints, assumptions, and risks
• Create a conceptual design for an enterprise cloud
• Create a logical design for an enterprise cloud
• Use key enterprise design principles to create a vSphere infrastructure for the enterprise cloud

Security Infrastructure

• Design a certificate authority architecture
• Create certificate signing requests for your vRealize Automation servers
• Create certificates for your vRealize Automation servers
• Use the VMware hardened virtual appliance
• Use VMware Identity Manager™

vRealize Automation Distributed Architecture

• Design and deploy the vRealize Automation solution in a highly available, distributed architecture
• Use vRealize Orchestrator in external and internal clusters
• Use cloudutil.exe and skills to control which DEM servers are used with specific endpoints
• Describe the proper configuration of NSX load balancers for a highly available, distributed architecture

Administration Role Architecture

• Design either an expanded administration role architecture or a compressed administration role architecture for an enterprise cloud

Tenants and Business Groups

• Design an optimum tenant and business group architecture for your enterprise cloud, using either a single-tenant or a multitenant model
• Describe the use of vRealize CloudClient in a multitenancy context

Cloud Resource Design

• Design an enterprise cloud that is based on a multitiered architecture
• Design naming standards in vRealize Automation to support your tenant-and-business group architecture
• Use composite blueprints in an enterprise deployment
• Use data center location in an enterprise deployment to control where systems are provisioned
• Design a unified self-service catalog
• Design service entitlements in an enterprise deployment
• Design and use governance and approvals

Extensibility and the Enterprise

• Describe vCloud Air and elastic clouds
• Describe the role of vRealize Orchestrator in vRealize Automation extensibility
• Use IaaS extensibility and the vRealize Automation event broker system
• Extend vRealize Automation to an asset management system
• Extend vRealize Automation to an IP address management system
• Use NSX on-demand components

Enterprise Management

• Use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ and the vRealize Automation management pack
• Use vRealize Log Insight in vRealize Automation enterprise management
• Manage costs
• Manage resource use
• Replace expired security certificates