VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy

This five-day course focuses on designing and deploying an enterprise cloud by using a distributed architecture deployment of VMware vRealize® Automation™. The lecture and labs concentrate on designing an enterprise cloud architecture and the effective implementation of a vRealize Automation distributed deployment according to VMware recommended best practices.

Product Alignment
• vSphere 6
• vRealize Automation 7
• VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™
• vRealize Log Insight
• vCloud Air

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Apply enterprise design principles
• Design and deploy a tiered VMware vSphere® resource architecture for CPU, storage, and network
resources, including VMware NSX®
• Design and deploy a vRealize Automation distributed infrastructure for an enterprise cloud
• Design and deploy a CA certificate/single sign-on architecture that includes Active Directory integration to
support the enterprise cloud infrastructure
• Design and deploy an administration architecture of roles for an enterprise cloud
• Design and deploy a tenant-and-business group architecture for an enterprise cloud
• Design and deploy compute resources, reservation policies, network profiles, and reservations to support
your enterprise cloud
• Use XaaS to extend vRealize Automation into other enterprise systems
• Integrate vRealize Automation with IP address management systems and asset management systems
• Describe VMware vCloud® Air™ integration for elastic clouds
• Describe the location and identity of all log files that relate to vRealize Automation troubleshooting
• Use VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ to manage and monitor distributed vRealize Automation
deployments

1. Course Introduction
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
2. 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
3. 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™
4. 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
5. Administration Role Architecture
   • Design either an expanded administration role architecture or a compressed administration role architecture for an enterprise cloud
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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

Experienced system administrators, cloud administrators, system integrators, and deployment consultants

This class requires understanding the concepts and topics presented in the following courses:
•  VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
•  VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage