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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

Expanding vCD resources


So you have run out of resources? The following recipe shows how to fix that.

Getting ready

You need a vCloud environment and new resources.

How to do it...

We will work through the different areas to which we can add resources.

An OvDC storage profile needs more space

Perform the following steps if an OvDC storage profile needs more space:

  1. Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin.

  2. Navigate to Manage & Monitor | Organization VDCs.

  3. Double-click on the OvDC for whose storage profile you want more space.

  4. Click on Storage Profiles.

  5. Have a look at how much storage is left.

  6. Right-click on the storage profile and select Properties.

  7. Set the storage limit to a higher level.

A storage profile needs more space

Perform the following if a storage profile needs more space:

  1. Log in to vCenter using the web client.

  2. Click on vCenter and then on Datastores.

  3. Select the first Datastore that should be part of the new storage profile.

  4. Select Manage in the tabs and select Profiles.

  5. Now we will add a user-defined storage...