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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

Defining a vCloud development cycle


This section provides an example of a development cycle using vCloud as a development tool.

Getting ready

We need an application that we can import (a vApp) as well as three organizations. The organizations will be used for administration, development, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). If the need for additional training environment exists, just create an additional organization.

How to do it...

Using the following diagram we will work through a typical development cycle:

Perform the following steps to work through a typical development cycle:

  1. Import your application into vCloud. Apply the proper aftercare to it and create a template out of it. Publish the template.

  2. Developers will now deploy a copy of the application from the Admin organization into the Dev organization, and start developing the next version (or fix the old one).

  3. After the development has reached a point where the code can be tested, the developers will create documentation that describes how...