VMware ® vCloud Automation Center: Install, Configure, Manage v6.0

Course details

This course covers the configuration and use of vCloud Automation Center as a platform for self-service provisioning of virtual, cloud, and physical machines to create and manage on-demand and multivendor cloud infrastructures.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course outline
• Course goals
• Course objectives

2 - VMware vCloud Automation Center Architecture and

• Explain the architecture for deploying vCloud Automation Center to manage a multivendor cloud
• Explain the components involved in a single vendor cloud infrastructure using VMware vCloud Director® and VMware vSphere®
• Define the ports associated with the communication among vCloud Automation Center components
• Understand and customize the elements of the vCloud Automation Center administration console

3 - VMware vCloud Automation Center Distributed Execution

• Explain the role of Distributed Execution Managers and agents
• Explain the types of agents and agent relationship

4 - VMware vCloud Automation Center Configuration, Provisioning, and Management

• Understand the relationships among vCloud Automation Center entities
• Identify and configure vCloud Automation Center endpoints
• Demonstrate how vCloud Automation Center discovers computer resources from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Amazon
• Explain provisioning groups, enterprise groups, blueprints, and reservations for compute resources

5 - VMware vCloud Automation Center Self-Service Portal

• Review the installation requirements and process for the Self-Service portal
• Use the Self-Service portal to provision machines from virtual, cloud, and physical resources
• Review provisioning requests

6 - Managing and Monitoring vCloud Automation Center

• Identify, verify, and reclaim inactive and abandoned resources
• Monitor vCloud Automation Center resources with the Administration portal
• Monitor vCloud Automation Center resources with the Report portal

7 - VMware vCloud Automation Center Models and Workflows

• Review Windows Workflow Foundation
• Define and demonstrate default vCloud Automation Center workflows
• Explain how to use VMware® vCenter™ Orchestrator™ workflows from vCloud Automation Center

8 - VMware vCloud Automation Center Installation and Upgrade

• Review vCloud Automation Center interoperability
• Explain vCloud Automation Center installation prerequisites
• Identify vCloud Automation Center component installers
• Identify the vCloud Automation Center installation procedure

Target Audience: Experienced system administrators, cloud administrators, system integrators and operational developers