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Learning VMware vCloud Air

Learning VMware vCloud Air

By : Yohan Wadia
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Learning VMware vCloud Air

Learning VMware vCloud Air

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By: Yohan Wadia
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Overview of this book

This book is intended for cloud engineers or administrators who wish to explore and gain hands-on experience of VMware vCloud Air. To make the most of this book, it would be beneficial to have a bit of familiarity with basic VMware vCloud concepts, but no prior experience is required.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with VMware vCloud Air
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1. Getting Started with VMware vCloud Air
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What is cloud computing?
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How is cloud computing useful?
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vCloud Air – concepts and components
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vCloud Air service offerings
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Signing up for VMware vCloud Air
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Virtual Datacenters – VDCs
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Summary
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2. Working with Virtual Machines
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2. Working with Virtual Machines
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What is a virtual machine?
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vApps, templates, and catalogs
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Getting started with virtual machines
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The virtual machine power operations
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Editing the virtual machine properties using vCloud Air
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Editing the virtual machine properties using vCloud director
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Creating custom catalogs
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Accessing virtual machines using the VMRC
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Monitoring virtual machines
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Best practices and tips
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Summary
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3. vCloud Air Networking and Security
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3. vCloud Air Networking and Security
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The vCloud Air networking components
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Gateways and networks
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Assigning the public IPs
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Connecting virtual machines to a network
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Connecting virtual machines to the Internet
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Networking services provided by gateways
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Best practices and tips
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Summary
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4. Extending vCloud Air
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4. Extending vCloud Air
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VPNs
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Extending datacenters to clouds using vCloud Connector
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Best practices and tips
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Summary
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5. Monitoring Workloads on vCloud Air
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5. Monitoring Workloads on vCloud Air
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The VMware vRealize Suite
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The VMware vRealize Operations
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Best practices and tips
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Summary
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6. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery using vCloud Air
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6. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery using vCloud Air
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The importance of business continuity and disaster recovery
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VMware vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery
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Setting up a disaster recovery service
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Setting up VMware vSphere Replication
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VMware vCloud Air Data Protection
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Best practices and tips
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vApps, templates, and catalogs

Now that we understand what a virtual machine is, let's look at some of the other important nomenclature that we will be coming across in this chapter and for the remainder of the book:

  • vApps: A vApp is VMware terminology, and generally means a preconfigured and packaged virtual machine that contains an operating system, and a preinstalled application; for example, a CentOS-based virtual machine with Apache web server packages rolled into it, a Debian-based MySQL server, or a Windows 2012 server with a preconfigured DNS and DHCP roles in it are all what we call a vApp.

    vApps can also be ported from one VMware vSphere-based environment to another due to the fact that all vApps operate on the Open Virtualization Format (OVF). This enables administrators to easily manage and migrate vApps from an on-premise VMware environment over to the vCloud Air.

  • Templates: A template, also called a golden image, is a complete and ready-to-use blueprint of a virtual machine that...

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