VMware Cloud Automation: Design and Deploy Fast Track

Module 1: 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 and logical design for an enterprise cloud
• Use key enterprise design principles to create a vSphere infrastructure for your enterprise cloud

Module 2: Security Infrastructure

• Design a certificate authority architecture
• Create certificate signing requests for your vRealize Automation servers
• Create certificates for your vRealize Automation servers

Module 3: vRealize Automation Distributed Architecture

• Design and deploy the vRealize Automation solution (including the related systems of vRealize Orchestrator and a single sign-on system) in a highly available, distributed architecture

Module 4: Authority Role Architecture

• Design either an expanded authority role architecture or a compressed authority role architecture for an enterprise cloud

Module 5: 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

Module 6: Naming Standards and Machine Prefixes

• Design naming standards in vRealize Automation to support your tenant and business group architecture
• Deploy machine prefixes to support your naming standard

Module 7: Enterprise Cloud Resources

• Design and deploy a set of compute resources for your enterprise cloud, using a tiered resource design including interfacing vRealize Automation to NSX and vSphere storage policies

Module 8: Daily Operations Support in the Enterprise Cloud

• Design and deploy machine and multimachine templates to match your NSX configuration and multitier enterprise cloud architecture
• Design and deploy blueprints, services, and entitlements to match your enterprise cloud
• Design and deploy approval workflows and lifecycles to match your authority architecture
• Use VMware vRealize™ Operations™ to manage cloud resources
• Use VMware vRealize™ Log Insight™ to manage logs and verify proper cloud operations

Module 9: Customization and Extensibility in the Enterprise Cloud

• Design and configure build profiles for the enterprise cloud
• Design and configure custom properties for the enterprise cloud
• Design a set of vRealize Orchestrator workflows to support an enterprise cloud
• Design cloud bursting and vCloud Air integration for an enterprise cloud
• Design cost management with vRealize Business for an enterprise cloud