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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

Cloning a running vApp


Using vCloud 5.5, you are now able to clone running vApps. This comes in very handy for debugging.

Getting ready

You will need a vApp that is running.

You also need to have the vApp you want to clone on a vSphere 5.5 environment, as this function only works with vSphere 5.5.

How to do it...

We have three possibilities where we can clone the vApp to.

Clone to a catalog

Perform the following steps to clone to a catalog:

  1. Navigate to the vApp that is running.

  2. Right-click on the vApp and select Add to Catalog.

  3. Select the catalog and give the vApp template a name. Make sure that the name reflects the state of the vApp.

  4. Select Make identical copy.

  5. Click on OK and wait until the clone has finished.

Deploy a cloned VM from a catalog

Perform the following steps to deploy a cloned VM from a catalog:

  1. Navigate to My Cloud.

  2. Click on Add vApp from Catalog (the green (+) icon).

  3. Select the live-cloned vApp. There is no way one can distinguish between the vApp stages in this window.

  4. Select a new name...