VMware 2v0-731 VCP Cloud Management – Additional Capabilities

1. Support

The VMware cloud on AWS makes it easy to get help with your VMware cloud on AWS configuration. If you go over here, what you want to do is generally select the SDDC that you’re requesting support for, click support, and generally you would have an icon down here that you would click on. You generally have two options. In this case, though, the Hands-on lab appears to not have this capability built in at this time, and it doesn’t show. However, if you are deploying your SCDC in your enterprise, this is already included and fully functional. In your case, what you’d want to do is select the icon, and you could select to put in a support call, or you could go ahead and chat as well. Now, I will say that this is a remarkably easy way to get support, and this is the only VMware product that has this capability built in.

2. Content library

In this module, we’re going to go ahead and talk about what a content library is and why you might want to use one with the VMware Cloud on AWS. A content library is a feature that you can use to distribute and automatically synchronize your content, such as OVAs, ISOs, images, and scripts, between your on-premises and cloud environments. SDDC deployment template support will be fully available in the future. VMware Cloud is now available. The Content Library is a new feature that was introduced in VCenter 6. Think of this as essentially a repository, or GitHub, for the distribution and sharing of your templates, scripts, et cetera. This can be accessed through multiple VCenter instances or dedicated to a single VCenter capability.

3. Site recovery option

In this demo, what we’d like to do is talk about an add-on option called Site Recovery. Site Recovery now makes use of VMware Site Recovery Manager capabilities, and for those who aren’t familiar with Site Recovery Manager, it’s used to keep your virtualized environment running. If you’re looking for a more detailed routine and process for Site Recovery Manager, I encourage you to go to the Learning Library and look at the various courses that are dedicated to Site Recovery Manager.

But essentially, the site recovery feature that’s built in is over here under the SDDC that you want to protect. You want to go over to view details and then select add-ons. With this site recovery, you can essentially use a couple of different methods. The main way is essentially stated here: it allows you to protect your on-premises workloads and recover them on this SCDC. Now, to do this, I would highly recommend that, before you deploy this, you totally understand the capabilities, the structure, and the additional cost that this will add to your subscription. That being said, VMware Site Recovery extends the VMware cloud on AWS to provide you with managed disaster recovery or disaster avoidance capability. Basically, that protects your customers or your organization.

And what will happen is that you will be able to use this VMware on the AWS platform. This is on demand, essentially, where you don’t need to have any kind of preconfigured site to use DRS with. This is very flexible. In general, with deployment options, you can use site recovery essentially between your datacenter and a deployed SDDC. The second option enables VMware SiteRecovery to provide a fully managed and maintained DR solution. Essentially, you could go ahead and create another VMC and deploy the primary VMC to the secondary VMC. So there’s definitely some really great capability here. Now to get this started, what we want to do is encourage you to read more information, and when you select that, it brings you over to the page that is going to go through how this works in detail, as well as the extension that you’ll want to be aware of and download. So take a look at that. But the add-on itself, you want to activate it, and it’s going to go through and basically state that after you do this, you need to install the component, and the link is there for that component for your onsite infrastructure.

And then you’ll also need to pay attention to firewall rules. There are numerous firewall rules you’re going to have to configure. If you click “activate,” this will take approximately five minutes. In this case, it’s saying Seven, we have now completed the activation of the site recovery feature. Now we want you to go here and download the on-premises components. This is essentially the extension that you would need to install in your VCenter environment. On premise. You also have the option to deactivate this feature if you no longer want to use it. You could also click here to access site recovery.

This would be assuming that it has been fully configured, as it shows it is not up, and that’s okay. It hasn’t been configured, so you shouldn’t expect it to be there. Now the next step you’d want to do is download this extension, and you can see that it’s under VMware Cloud on AWS Products under Product Download. Simply put, we’d have to go ahead and download that. And you can see right there, go to Downloads, and this gives you information on the product itself. And again, make sure that you read everything, that you read the documentation, and that you’re aware of the different components that you may need. One more thing: the V centre must now be in your hand for this to work. VMware VCenter Server version 60 U3 or 6 5 must be installed on-premises. Also, there must be one or more VSphere hosts running five zeros or higher at the on-premises site. And this is because VMware site recovery also utilises VSphere replication. This is for transferring data between sites.

4. Developer Center

Another feature I think is worth talking about is the Developer Center. Now the Developer Center is essentially a one-stop shop for your developers to be able to go to and download, get references, and look at code samples around the APIs, the SDKs, and other downloads to be able to integrate VSphere automation. This gives you the ability to get up and running quicker and to integrate your environment at a more efficient pace. If we go over here to API Explorer, you can see that there are numerous options here. What is significant about the API Explorer is that it enables the developers to quickly reference the supported API operations, such as Post and Get, and it also has the links for what you’re trying to accomplish.

And it has the descriptions and all the codes already there for the developers to document, try out, integrate, and test whatever they are trying to accomplish. SDKs are here. These are software development kits, and they are essentially GitHub repositories where you can download the specific languages on which you want to develop. And these are the widely supported capabilities, like Java, Net, Python, Ruby, Pearl, and Rest. You could go over here, go directly to GitHub, look at documentation, look at samples, and then get started.

Then if you go over here to download, there are two command-line bundles that are available. You have the DCLI, which is the data centre command line interface, and this is used for the Vsphere automation API. And then you have the Power CLI, which is used with Microsoft PowerShell. And this will enable your developers to integrate your Windows services and essentially be able to make your service available as part of the VMC on AWS. That is the developer center. And the best way to learn about the Developer Center, what’s available, and how you could utilize the specific capabilities is, of course, to go over here, look at the different capabilities, and try them out.