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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

Recovering the vCloud system


So how do we restore a vCloud environment?

Getting ready

Depending on the point of loss from which you have to recover, different items are needed:

  • For total loss, the following items are needed:

    • Backup

    • Documentation

    • Windows and Redhat VMs

    • vSphere installation disk

    • vCloud Director Binary

    • vCNS OVA

  • For loss of the vSphere system, the following items are needed:

    • Backup

    • Documentation

    • Windows and RHEL VMs

    • vSphere installation disk

  • For loss of vCNS, the following items are needed:

    • Backup

    • Documentation

    • vCNS OVA

  • For loss of the vCloud DB, the following item is needed:

    • Backup

  • For loss of one vCloud Cell (in a multicell setup), the following items are needed:

    • Backup

    • RHEL VM

    • Documentation

    • vCloud Director Binary

How to do it...

Let's look at the various scenarios.

Restore vSphere from scratch

Perform the following steps to restore vSphere from scratch:

  1. Restore the databases.

  2. Install the vSphere environment using the restored databases.

  3. Continue with restoring vCNS.

  4. Continue with restoring vCloud.

Restore...