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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 branding to make vCloud look different


Let's make vCloud look the way we want it to.

Getting ready

We need a vCloud environment.

We need to download the .css templates from the following VMware KB 1026050. This KB contains three .css files:

  • cloud-director-template.css

  • cloud-director-51-template.css

  • cloud-director-51-login-template.css

In addition to this, we need Adobe Flex SDK that you can download from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex-sdk-download.html.

How to do it...

We will now work through the possible changes that can be applied to vCloud.

Changes to vCloud

For all the following actions, we start at the same spot:

  1. Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin.

  2. Navigate to Administration | Branding. You should now see the following screen:

Changing the company name

Changing the company name will change the name in the upper-left corner, the lower-middle as well as on the login screen. In this example, we have changed the company name to My vCloud:

Changing the logo

We can upload any PNG, JPEG, or GIF; however...