VMware vCloud Director Essentials

By Jake Robinson and David Davis
Learn the basics of cloud computing and how to create a hybrid cloud to deploy IT resources on-demand with VMware vCloud Director.
Course info
Rating
(27)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 20, 2012
Duration
5h 17m
Table of contents
Introduction to VMware vCloud Director Essentials
About Your Instructor - David Davis 1m Course Prerequisites 1m Introduction 1m What Makes VMware vCloud Different? 2m What You Will Learn 2m Why Cloud Computing is So Important 1m
Real World Cloud Computing
Demo - Look Inside vCloud 2m Enterprise Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Public Cloud 3m What We Covered 1m Who is Jake Robinson? 2m Why You Need vCloud Director 6m
Cloud Computing 101
Cloud Concerns 6m Cloud Requires a New Approach 4m Evolve Your Datacenter to a Private Cloud 3m Introduction 1m Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud 1m Various Forms of Cloud Computing 2m What Makes Up an IaaS Cloud? 3m What is Cloud Computing? 3m
VMware vCloud Offerings
The VMware vCloud Solution 2m What We Covered 1m vCloud API 2m vCloud Datacenter Services and Powered Services 1m vCloud Director 1m vCloud Express 3m
vCloud Director 101
Components of a vCD Deployment 4m Introduction 1m Management and Resource Clusters 2m What We Covered 2m What is a Cell? 1m What is vCloud Director? 5m vCD Logical Terminology 8m
Building a vCloud Director Lab
Background on the vCD Appliance 1m Components of a vCD Lab 3m Demo - Download vCloud Director 4m Demo - Installing the vCloud Director Appliance 9m Demo - Installing the vShield Manager Appliance 12m Introduction 1m Physical vs Virtual 1m What We Covered 3m Why Build a Lab? 1m
Installing vCloud Director
Configure vCloud Director Database 13m Creating DNS Entries 1m Demo - vCloud Director Evalution 1m Generating SSL Certificates 13m Installation Planning 7m Introduction 1m Perform Verification of Services 14m What We Covered 3m What's New in vCloud Director 1.5? 5m vCloud Director Installation References 1m vCloud Director Requirements 5m vShield Manager Installation 4m
vCloud Director Setup
Connecting to vCenter and vShield 5m Creating a Provider Virtual Datacenter 10m Creating a VM Deployment Template 5m Introduction 1m What We Covered 2m vCloud Director Administration Overview 6m
Managing vCloud Director Resources
Connecting Organizations to LDAP 7m Creating Organizations and Allocating Resources 16m Demo - External Networks 9m Demo - Network Pools 8m External, Organizational, and vApp Networks 1m Introduction 1m Layers of Networking 3m Managing Cloud Resources and vSphere Resources 2m Network Pools 2m Understanding Leases and Organizations 3m What We Covered 1m vCD Networking Terms 4m
Understanding vCloud Director Catalogs
Creating vApps 3m Understanding Catalogs 21m
Monitoring vCloud Director
Monitoring Blocking Tasks 2m Provider and Org vDC Usage 5m Tasks and Events 4m vCD Logs 3m
vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT)
vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) 7m
vCloud Director Client for iPad
vCloud Director Client for iPad 6m
Next Steps in vCloud Director
Build Your Lab 1m Prove Your Knowledge 2m vCD Resources and Blogs 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(27)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Mar 20, 2012
Duration
5h 17m
Description

This comprehensive course teaches you cloud computing basics and shows you how to use VMware vCloud Director to create a hybrid cloud that can deploy IT resources on-demand. You'll learn cloud computing and vCloud Director 101, how to build a vCloud Director lab, how to manage vCloud Director resources, and how to create catalogs and vApps. This course is designed for those who have little to no experience in cloud computing, but want to learn solid skills to build upon.

About the author
Jake Robinson
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Jake has a broad range of IT infrastructure experience. This experience ranges from telecom and networking, to operating systems from Microsoft and Linux.

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David has authored over 50 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere.

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