1. Introducing VMware vCloud
- Characteristics of delivering IT services in the cloud for consumers and providers
- Three cloud deployment environments
- Three types of services delivered in the cloud and the related VMware products
- VMware vCloud Director constructs used to abstract, allocate, and deliver resources
- Purpose of each vCloud component
- Benefits cloud computing offers to IT organizations
2. IT Server Delivery
- How organization administrators deliver IT resources in a vCloud environment
- Manage and control access to content components, including catalogs, vApps, vApp templates, and media
- How to share content between organizations
- Purposes of leases, quotes, and limits
3. Building a Private Cloud
- Eight basic tasks to provision and allocate resources
- How each of the three resource allocation models allocate resources to an organization's virtual design and
- construction (vDC)
- Three types of networks used in a private cloud
- Function of network pools
- Compare the three network pool backing options
- Three types of organization networks
- Controls vCloud Director uses to secure networks
- How to scale vCloud Director to large environments
4. Cost Analysis and Reporting
- Function of each vCenter Chargeback architectural component
- Basic workflow of using vCenter Chargeback in a vCloud infrastructure
- Which resources vCenter Chargeback meters
- Components of a cost model
- How cost models are used to generate reports
- Additional vCloud resources