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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

Chapter 6. Improving the vCloud Design

In this chapter, we will focus on some quick and simple recipes that let you develop a deeper understanding of how to design a vCloud. We will look at the following recipes:

  • Creating a naming standard

  • Using service accounts in the vCloud environment

  • Setting up networks for the vCloud VM

  • Working with vCloud roles

  • Keeping your templates under control

  • Choosing the right Allocation Model

  • Using OvDCs for compute tiering

  • Understanding how the different vCloud types impact the design

  • Retrofitting a shared directory into an existing vCD Cell

  • Connecting more than one vCloud Cell to the same infrastructure

  • Creating multiple vCD Cells for the same vCloud

  • Load balancing vCD

  • Working with catalogs in vCloud 5.5