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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

Monitoring which network resources have been used where


After we have devoted this chapter to creating vApp and Organization Networks, you might really like to know how you can keep track of all this mess.

Getting ready

Not much, just a whole bunch of vApp and Organization Networks and the will to figure it all out.

How to do it...

  1. Log into your vCloud as SysAdmin.

  2. Click on Manage & Monitor.

  3. Click on External Networks. You should see the following screen:

    Here you will find all External Networks, how much of the allocated IP pool is already used, and an overview of their VLAN ID, vCenter, and port group associations.

  4. Click on Switches & Port Groups. You should see the following screen:

    Now you will find an allocation of what port groups in vSphere are assigned to which cloud network, and of what type, as well as on which vCenter they live.

  5. Now open up an organization.

  6. Click on Administration and then on any of the OvDC.

  7. Now select Org VDC Networks. You should get the following screen:

    Here...