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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

Creating a secure connection between organizations (which can be in different vClouds)


Connecting one vCloud Organization Network to another isn't easy, and most of the time, rather impossible. However, this is how it works, the easy way.

Getting ready

We need two organizations, each with an Edge configured as well as an Organization Network that connects to the Edge. Make sure that the Organization Networks have different IP ranges (for example, 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.4.0/24).

For testing, we need vApps in both organizations that have VMs that are connected to the Edge.

How to do it...

  1. Enter the organization (either one).

  2. Click on Cloud Resources and then double-click on the OvDC you have created.

  3. Click on Edge Gateway.

  4. Right-click on the Edge and select Edge Gateway Services.

  5. Click on VPN.

  6. Check Enable VPN as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. Click on Add to add a new connection. You should now get the following screen:

  8. Name the connection and select a network in another organization under Establish...