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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

Importing a vApp into vCloud


Adding an existing vApp into vCloud is more or less straightforward, but there are some things I would like to point out. This recipe will help you import an existing vApp into vCloud.

Getting ready

Obviously we need a vApp or a VM. The vApp can contain one or more VMs. The VM must be in vSphere; it can come out of VMware Workstation/Fusion or can be in an OVF (vCloud 5.5 supports OVA as well). All of this works without the vCloud Connector.

You can import an OVF template as an Org Admin, but you must be a Sys Admin to import a VM from vSphere.

How to do it...

There are two ways to import a VM or vApp into vCloud: directly from vSphere or as an OVF/OVA.

Importing a VM from vSphere

A VM that is already in vSphere can be added to any existing vApp or to a catalog using the following steps. However, you must be a system administrator to do this.

  1. Log into vCloud with a SysAdmin role.

  2. Open the organization you want to import the VM into.

  3. Click on Catalogs and then click on...