Course Overview
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure environment. In this course, you are introduced to VMware Cloud Director™ as a virtualized infrastructure manager. You will examine ETSI NFV requirements, deployment options, and procedures. You will also deploy virtualized network functions and understand their detailed configuration settings. You will learn how to support organizations as well as set up networking and security using hands-on lab exercises.
In addition, you are presented with various types of technical problems in VMware Cloud Director, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic troubleshooting process.
Product Alignment
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure (VMware Cloud Director option) [2.0]
Who should attend
- Telco cloud system administrators and telco network operations engineers
- Professionals who work with telco or enterprise and data center networks
- Designers and operations engineers who manage telco workloads
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have completed the Telco Cloud Automation Fundamentals and Telco Cloud Platform Fundamentals courses.
You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:
- Good understanding of VMware products like VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX®, VMware vSAN™, and VMware Cloud Director
- Knowledge and working experience of network functions virtualization, including:
- ETSI NFV framework, virtualized network functions, and related Interfaces
- VMs and virtual data centers
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure™ architecture
- Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
- List the infrastructure requirements of ETSI NFV
- Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture as Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
- Describe the options associated with VMware cloud providers
- Explain how organizations are supported in VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the security model in VMware Cloud Director
- Configure key networking elements of VMware Cloud Director
- Manage and monitor resources in VMware Cloud Director
- Enumerate troubleshooting concepts and Day 2 operations using VMware Cloud Director
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Day 0 Operations: VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Installation
- Day 0 Operations: ETSI NFV Requirements for Cloud Platforms
- Day 1 Operations: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) Configuration
- Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Providers
- Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Organizations
- Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Security
- Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Networking
- Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Resource Management and Monitoring
- Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Troubleshooting