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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 7. Operational Challenges

This chapter is dedicated to all the little problems that come along with an operational vCloud. We will be looking into these problems covered in the following recipes:

  • Loading Windows Sysprep packages in vCloud

  • Exchanging SSL certificates

  • Bypassing SSO login into vCloud

  • Backing up vCloud

  • Recovering the vCloud system

  • Changing the name of an organization

  • Shutting down and starting up the vCloud environment

  • Using metadata to improve provisioning

  • Using vSphere Host Profiles with vCloud

  • Using vCloud with vCenter Auto Deploy

  • Defining a vCloud development cycle

  • Making the VM BIOS ID (UUID) unique

  • Importing from Lab Manager into vCloud

  • Using branding to make vCloud look different

  • Putting an ESXi host into maintenance

  • Updating vCloud Cells without interruption

  • Updating a vCloud with only one cell

  • Updating a vCenter in vCloud

  • Updating vCNS

  • Expanding vCD resources

  • Resizing a VM hard disk

  • Cloning a running vApp

  • Removing infrastructure from vCloud