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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

Using vCenter Orchestrator to automate vCloud


We now look into automation using vCenter Orchestrator (vCO).

Getting ready

You need to download the vCO appliance (version 5.1 or better) from VMware. vCO is part of the normal vSphere software bundle. The appliance is preconfigured with an internal DB and LDAP and makes getting started with vCO easier. If you are already using vCO as a Windows install, that's fine.

After downloading, installing, and configuring vCO, we are ready to go. If you need some help with configuring, refer the See also section of this recipe.

How to do it...

The first connection

First we need to connect the downloaded vCO to our vCloud by performing the following steps:

  1. Open a web browser and go to https://[vCO URL].

  2. Click on Orchestrator Configuration.

  3. Log in to the configurator.

  4. Click on Network and then on SSL Trust Manager.

  5. Enter the URL of your vCloud Director in Import from URL and then click on Import. This will add the SSL cert of your vCloud Director to the vCO-accepted...