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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

Backing up vCloud


We have already discussed the backup of vApps in vCloud, but what about the vCloud system itself?

Getting ready

We need a functioning vCloud environment containing SSO, vCenter, vCNS, and vCloud. Therefore, we should also have a backup method.

How to do it...

You can either back up the VMs of all the management systems (including the database) or you can follow the approach described in this section.

SSO backup

SSO backup is done by backing up the SSO database. See your database vendor for best practices.

vCenter backup

vCenter backup is done by backing up the vCenter database. See your database vendor for best practices.

vCNS backup

vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) is easy to back up. Perform the following steps to do so:

  1. Log in to vCNS web service.

  2. Navigate to Settings & Reports | Configuration | Backups. You should see the following screen:

  3. Set Scheduled Backups to On.

  4. Select a Backup Frequency value. Think how often the vCNS configuration will change, meaning how often vApp...