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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

Automatic IP management for External Network Pools


Using vCloud to manage the IPs in an External Network Pool is quite efficient; however, only the IP is being managed, DNS settings are not. There are several other ways to do this.

Getting ready

We need a vApp with VMs attached to an External Network that get their IPs from a Static Network Pool.

In this example, we will focus on a Windows solution. We will need an Active Directory Server that has an integrated DNS (enable Active Directory Integrated DNS). You will need all the credentials ready for establishing connectivity to the Active Directory.

We also need a vApp that should contain Windows VMs that are able to join an Active Directory Domain. The vApp Network should be able to connect the VMs inside to the Active Directory, so it probably should be an Organization Network that connects to an External Network.

How to do it...

  1. Double-click on the VM you want to use for this testing.

  2. Follow the Joining VMs automatically to domains recipe in...