VMware announced a FREE online training course called “VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals [5.1]“.

This course is a self-paced course which lasts 3.5 hours and it’s available through myLearn training.

The VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals self-paced course introduces students to the components, architecture, functions, and benefits of vCloud Director. For more information regarding vCloud Director I suggest reading the “what’s new” document.

Objectives

• Briefly explain cloud computing
• Recognize cloud implementations
• Identify VMware vCloud Director functions and benefits
• Analyze vCloud Director architecture
• Identify the vCloud Director components and their functions
• Examine how to charge for resources
• Determine the licensing needs
• Recognize the prerequisites for vCloud Director installation
• Illustrate vCloud Director software installation
• Demonstrate configuration of vCloud Director software
• Differentiate the vCloud Director terminologies
• Configure and manage vSphere resources
• Configure and manage cloud resources
• Create and provision organizations
• Create and manage catalogs
• Utilize roles and rights to control access
• Recognize the different administration roles within vCloud Director
• Recognize types of networks in vCloud Director
• Create and manage the networks
• Identify different types of network pools
• Recognize user tasks and privileges
• Identify how to work with vCloud Director as a user