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VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
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VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vCloud Director is an enterprise software solution that enables the building of secure, private clouds by pooling together infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. The tool enables self-service via a web interface to reduce the management overhead and offers amazing possibilities for production and development environments. Thus, the tool will ensure efficient management of resources with data center efficiency and business agility. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" will cover a lot of ground, ranging from easy to complex recipes. It will not only dive into networks, data-stores, and vApps, but also cover vCloud design improvements, troubleshooting, and the vCloud API. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" is split into different sections, each of which deals with a special topic in vCloud - from networks, to vApps, to storage and design. This book contains over 80 recipes with the difficulty levels ranging from simple to very advanced. You will learn how to automate vCloud easily and quickly with the API, and also learn how to isolate a vApp and still fully access it without risking the network. Design considerations that need to be addressed while deploying the vCloud and more will also be looked into. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" will make your life as an admin a lot easier by providing you with some good recipes that have been proven to work in small to large enterprises.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware vCloud Director Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Appendix
Index

Accessing a fully isolated vApp or Organization Network


It is basically the same idea as the previous recipe, but a very different solution; I call it "sitting-on-the-fence", but it is commonly known as a Jumphost.

Getting ready

This solution doesn't require a vApp router, and it works for isolated vApps and isolated Organization Networks. Depending on what you would like to build, you need different parts:

  • vApp Networks: Create a vApp with multiple VMs and deploy an isolated vApp Network. Then add an additional VM of your preferred OS type (Windows or Linux).

  • Organization Networks: Create an isolated Organization Network that is connected to some other vApps. Now create an additional vApp with only one VM of your preferred OS type (Windows or Linux).

To add a VM to a vApp, see the Adding a VM to a vApp recipe in Chapter 3, Better vApps.

This additional VM will be the Jumphost VM. Do not power on the Jumphost VM yet, as this is an important step in the recipe.

How to do it...

The recipe is the...