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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 from Lab Manager into vCloud


Lab Manager is not supported anymore, so it's high time to get your stuff from LM to vCD.

Getting ready

We need a Lab Manager environment as well as a vCloud environment.

We also need a way to transfer a lot of data across. As Lab Manager can only work on vSphere 4.1, and vCloud should be installed on vSphere 5.1, we are probably looking at a minimum of two vCenters but probably more like two environments. The best way to solve this is to either have a VMFS Version 3 formatted LUN attached to both environments or you can provide an NFS or iSCSI mount. Alternatively, you can export the VMs/vApps as OVFs and import them again.

How to do it...

The transfer of Lab Manager objects falls into several separate tasks.

Transferring networks

The External Networks in vCloud do not support DHCP as the Physical Networks in Lab Manager did, so, you need to either switch to an IP Pool, or you can use DHCP on the VM level. To do that, you enter just one IP in the IP range...