#vBrownbag EMEA VCAP5-CIA Objectives 3

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VCAP5-CIA – Objectives 3.x
27/08/2013VCAP5-CIA Certification 1

Who am I
• My name is Andrew (Andrea in Italy) Mauro
• My blog: http://vinfrastructure.it/en/
• I’m a proud member of the Italian VMUG
o Aka the Italian vMaffia :-0
• My certs: vExpert 2000,2001,2012,2013 VCDX 3/4/5,
VCAP-DCA 4/5, VCAP-DCD 4/5, VCAP5-DTD,
VCAP5-CIA, VCAP5-CID, VCP 3/4/5, VCP-DT 4/5,
VCP5-Cloud…
…also some MCSA and MCSE and others…
• You can find me on twitter as: @Andrea_Mauro
• Currently I work for Assyrus Srl as an IT architect

Where are we?
11/06/2013 3
CloudIaaS
VCAP5-CIA Certification

VCAP5-CIA
• VMware Certification page
o http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=3762
9&ui=www_cert
• Resources
o Exam Blueprint
o vCloud Director Instructional Videos
• http://vmwarelearning.com/vcloud/
o Lab sample!
o Links collection:
• http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2013/06/vcap5-cia-study-guides/
• http://thesaffageek.co.uk/vsphere-5-x-cloud-study-
resources/vcap5-cia-and-cid/

VCAP5-CIA Exam
• Authorization
o Before you can schedule your VCAP-CIA exam, you must request authorization
• VUE code VCIA510
o Same price as other VCAP exams
o Same (limited!) testing centers
• 32 live labs in 210 minutes
o +30min in non native English countries
• Lab
o lab environment is based on VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and vCenter
Chargeback Manager 2.5
• Exam experience
o http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2013/07/commenti-sullesame-vcap5-cia/

VCAP5-CIA courses
• Nothing mandatory
• Nothing (officially) suggested
• Free Instructional Video
o vCloud Director Concepts and Architecture
• http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=36740&ui=www
_edu
• http://vmwarelearning.com/vcloud/
• http://vmwarelearning.com/vcloud_net_sec/
o Trainsignal free course
• http://www.trainsignal.com/Course/147/VMware-vCloud-Director-
Essentials
o Check also in the VMware Partner area
• + Blogs

VCAP5-CIA Lab
• You need a lab or a good practical experience to
pass an admin role based exam!
• You need also good vSphere experience and
moderated Linux experience too!
• There is a VA for vCloud Director
o Some issue if you plan to use with Workstation
• http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2013/06/installing-vcloud-director-in-a-lab/
• For other material see also:
o http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2013/06/vcap5-cia-study-guides/
• Use also the Hands-on Lab
o http://hol.vmware.com

VCAP5-CIA Blueprint
• Filename with v2.4
o 05 August 2013
• Several links are included
o Note that other material may be needed
• VMware KB
• Whitepapers
• Official reference
o http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vmware
-vcloud-suite-pubs.html
• Part is available in the
live lab

VCAP5-CIA Section 3
• Manage vCloud Director Resources
o Objective 3.1 – Manage Provider VDCs
o Objective 3.2 – Manage vCloud Director network resources
o Objective 3.3 – Manage Organization VDCs
o Objective 3.4 – Manage an Organization

Quick Start

VCAP5-CIA Objective 3.1
• Manage Provider VDCs
• Knowledge
o Identify Provider VDC options
• Skills and Abilities
o Create and Provider VDCs
o Merge or Expand Provider VDCs
o Manage Provider VDC options
• See also:
o http://fbuechsel.eu/2013/08/07/vcap-cia-objective-3-1-
manage-provider-vdcs/
o http://vmwarelearning.com/qiF/creating-provider-resources/
o http://www.petri.co.il/setting-up-vmware-vcloud-director-
essentials-part-2.htm

Create and Provider
VDCs
• vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide
o pages 21 and 22
• Creating a Provider Virtual Data Center in VMware
vCloud Director
o http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026296

Merge or Expand
Provider VDCs
o pages 45 – 51
• Merging 2 Provider VDCs
o You can start by going to the Manage and Monitor tab, choosing the
Provider VDC option and right clicking the Provider VDC that should be
the merge destination
• Expand a Provider VDC
o Different cases
• Add compute resources which can be done by adding another
Resource Pool
• additional storage which can be done by adding Storage Profiles to
the Provider VDC
o For both options a wizard is going to pop up and guide you through
selecting the additional resources

Manage Provider VDC
options
• The following options and procedures that can be edited for a
Provider VDC
o Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
o Delete a Provider vDC
o Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
o Merge Provider vDCs
o Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
o Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
o Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
o Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
o Enable vSphere VXLAN on an Upgraded Provider vDC
o Provider vDC Datastores
o Add a Storage Profile to a Provider vDC
o Edit the Metadata for a Storage Profile on a Provider vDC
o Add a Resource Pool to a Provider vDC
o Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Resource Pool
o Detach a Resource Pool From a Provider vDC
o Migrate Virtual Machines Between Resource Pools on a Provider vDC
o Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
o Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users

• Manage vCloud Director network resources
• Knowledge
o Identify vCloud Director network pool types
o Create and manage network pools
o Create Provider external networks
o Manage and remove network resources
• See also:
o http://it20.info/2010/09/vcloud-director-networking-for-
dummies/
o http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/vmware-vcloud-5-1-
networking-for-dummies/
o http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/09/09/vcd-networking-
part-2-network-pools/

vCloud Networks
• Network Pools
o pools consumed by virtual datacenters to create vAPP networks
• Organization Networks
o assigned to an Organization VDC
• External Networks
o port group-backed networks (defined in vCenter) that provide ingress
and egress to the Cloud environment.
o They should be routable networks, either RFC-1918 for private, or Internet
routable for providers
• See also:
o http://philthevirtualizer.com/2012/05/07/vmware-vcloud-networking-
options/

Create and manage
network pools
o Page 21 -25
• See also:
• Network pools can be one of these types:
o vSphere port groups
o VLAN
o vCloud Network isolation (VCNI)
o VXLAN

Portgroup Backed
• Portgroup-backed pools require pre-created
portgroups within the vSphere environment
o least flexible
o But do not require vDS and can be based on vSS, vDS or Cisco Nexus
1000v
• Requirements
o All portgroups need to be pre-created and available on all hosts of your
cluster
• Recommendations
o Use a scripted solution or host profiles to create the portgroups to ensure
consistency
• Constraints: n/a

VLAN Backed
• VLAN-backed network pools require availability of a
set of unused VLANs
o When an Org or vApp network is created which is based on a VLAN-
backed network pool a portgroup is created on a dvSwitch and a VLAN is
assigned to this portgroup
o It should be noted that all VLANs specified for the pool will need to be
trunked to the host and that in most environment the amount of available
VLANs is limited
• Requirements
o Distributed vSwitch, pool of available VLANs, Physical uplinks need to
support VLAN Trunks
• Recommendations: n/a
• Constraints
o Nexus 1000v and regular vSwitches are not supported currently, amount
of available VLANs in most environments

VCNI Backed
• vCloud Network Isolation-backed(VCNI) network pools
are flexible, easy to configure and do not require VLANs
o vCNI provides layer 2 isolation by utilizing a network overlay.
o This network overlay is provided by MAC in MAC encapsulation and requires a
vDS
o For each consumed network vCloud Director creates a portgroup and assigns
this portgroup a network ID number
o This network ID number is used for the encapsulation of the traffic
• Requirements
o Distributed vSwitch
• Constraints
o Nexus 1000v and regular vSwitches are not supported currently
• Recommendations
o minimum of 1 VLAN, MTU Increase (24Bytes, 1500 –> 1524)
o Admin guide suggest to set MTU to 1600

VXLAN Backed
• Several steps involving also the vShield Manager
• For more info see:
o http://www.punchingclouds.com/2012/09/09/vcloud-director-5-1-vxlan-
configuration/
• Hands-on-lab
• Requirements
o Distributed vSwitch
• Constraints
o VXLAN Standard, Multicast support
• Recommendations
o Follow suggested reference

Comparison

Create Provider external
networks
o “Managing External Networks,” on page 22
• See also:
o http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2010/08/how-to-create-external-networks-
in-vmware-vcloud-director.html

Manage and remove
network resources
o “Managing External Networks,” on page 64
o “Managing Edge Gateways,” on page 65
o “Managing Organization vDC Networks,” on page 81
o “Managing Network Pools,” on page 94

• Manage Organization VDCs
• Knowledge
o Identify org VDC types
o Identify org VDC options
o Identify org VDC network options
o Configure storage tiers
o Create, manage and delete org VDCs

Configure storage tiers
• Storage profiles (and datastore clusters) must be set
in the vSphere management part
o Storage Capability could be user defined or configured by VASA
• You can add storage resources to the Provider VDC
o be careful when choosing the * (Any) profile as this also includes the local
datastores of the hosts which can cause problems
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2045534
• See also:
o http://cormachogan.com/2012/10/17/vcloud-director-5-1-storage-
profiles/
o http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2012/10/architecting-storage-offerings-
for-vcloud-director-5-1.html
o http://living-in-clouds.net/2012/09/27/vcloud-director-5-1-how-to-
configure-tiered-storage-on-netapp-part-1-vasa-provider/

Configure storage tiers
• To view the Storage Profiles available in vCloud
Director
o click Storage Profiles under vSphere Resources
o If you cannot view the Storage Profile you wish to see, right-click the
vCenter Server and click Refresh Storage Profiles
• by default is done every five minutes

Create, manage and
delete org VDCs
o “Managing Organization vDCs,” on page 52
o “Managing Organization vDC Networks,” on page 81
• Before you have to create Organizations and
provider VDCs
o one Org could have more org VDCs
o one org VDC can belong to only one Org
o one org VDC can belong to one provider VDC
o one org VDC is assigned to a network pool
• See also:
o http://vmwarelearning.com/EuY/creating-organization-resources-part-1/
o http://vmwarelearning.com/83T/creating-organization-resources-part-2/

Select provider VDC

Allocation models
• Three different allocation models
o Allocation Pool
o Pay-As-You-Go
o Reservation Pool
• See also:
o http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/09/22/vcd-allocation-models/
o http://stretch-cloud.info/category/vcloud-allocation-model/
o http://www.virtual-blog.com/2012/03/vmware-vcloud-director-101-concepts-
allocation-models-part-3/
o http://fojta.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/allocation-pool-organization-vdc-
changes-in-vcloud-director-5-1/
o http://it20.info/2012/10/vcloud-director-5-1-1-changes-in-resource-
entitlements/

Allocation models
From 1.5 to 5.1

Allocation models

Pay-As-You-Go
• Reservations are allocated dynamically with new M
• Guarantee defaults are
o 0% for CPU
o 100% for memory

Pay-As-You-Go

Allocation pool
• Guarantee defaults are
o 0% for CPU
o 100% for memory
• no CPU reservation or limit is set on a VM level
• On memory both a reservation and a limit has been
defined
o The limit always equals the provisioned memory and the reservation
equals the guaranteed memory
• See also:
o http://fojta.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/allocation-pool-organization-vdc-
changes-in-vcloud-director-5-1/

Allocation pool

Reservation pool
• On a per VM level no reservations or limits are set
• Only at resource pool level

Reservation pool

Allocate Storage
• By default thin provisioning is not enabled, fast
provisioning is enabled
o You can enable/disable the thin provisioning option at Org vDC level
• See also:
o http://vcdx56.com/2013/04/02/vcloud-director-thin-provisioning-and-
storage-allocation-per-allocation-model/
o http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/vcloud-director-
storage-allocation-with-thin-a-fast-provisioning.html

Select Network Pool

Organization Networks
• There are multiple ways to define an OrgNetwork:
o Direct connection
• This network is akin to a traditional port group-backed network in
vSphere. In short, it provides connectivity to LAN, WAN or Internet traffic. It
is tied to an External network and usually sits on internally routable RFC-
1918 address space (most likely for private cloud) or Internet-routable
address space for providers
o NAT-routed connection
• This connection allows for Network Address Translation (NAT) of External IP
space to internal private networks. The NAT-routed OrgNet is typically in
RFC-1918 address space, however there are other cases.
o Internal Organization network
• This is strictly an internal network for the vApps to communicate with each
other, but have no external network access
• See also:
o http://philthevirtualizer.com/2012/05/07/vmware-vcloud-networking-options/
o http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/vmware-vcloud-5-1-networking-for-
dummies/

Organization Networks

• Manage an Organization
• Knowledge
o Identify Organization options and their uses
o Create and manage Organizations
o Manage Organization policies and settings

Create and manage
Organizations
o “Create an Organization,” on page 28
o “Allocate Resources to an Organization,” on page 32
o “Enable or Disable an Organization,” on page 105
o “Delete an Organization,” on page 105
o “Add a Catalog to an Organization,” on page 106
o “Editing Organization Properties,” on page 106
o “Managing Organization Resources,” on page 110
o “Managing Organization Users and Groups,” on page 110
o “Managing Organization vApps and Virtual Machines,” on page 110
• See also
o http://vmwarelearning.com/ty7/creating-organizations/

Manage Organization
policies and settings
• Organization policies:
o lease options for vApps and vApp templates
o quotas for running and stored virtual machines
o limits for resource intensive operations
o number of simultaneous VMware Remote Console connections for each
virtual machine
o (Optional) Select the Account lockout enabled check box, select the
number of invalid logins to accept before locking a user account, and
select the lockout interval
• Where?
o Click Administration
o In the left pane, select Settings > Policies

Manage leases
• http://infrastructureadventures.com/2012/07/22/vcl
oud-director-policies-part-1leases/

Quota & limits
• http://infrastructureadventures.com/2012/08/11/vcl
oud-director-policies-part-2-quotas-limits/

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