Welcome to VMware vCloud Director Essentials. In this book, we will teach you how to implement a private cloud running VMware vCloud Director. This book equips you with the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to build a highly scalable and secured private cloud running VMware vCloud. We will also use screenshot throughout this book, which are usually not available in vCloud product manuals.
You will learn how to configure and manage vCloud Director. You will also learn how to use VXLAN, vSphere storage profiles, vSphere network port groups, and vCenter Chargeback Manager, which can help you to strengthen your cloud implementation.
We discuss some advanced concepts of cloud, such as DNS and DHCP relay, VPN, static routes, and firewall management, which are available worldwide. You will also learn how to manage vCloud organization and its security as well as maintain vApp and vApp templates.
Chapter 1, Configuring and Maintaining vCloud Director, covers the installation and configuration of vCloud Director for first-time use. It also shows you how to configure centralized logging, maintain vCloud using command lines, and manage chargeback reports.
Chapter 2, Managing vSphere Resources, walks you through the process of adding vSphere compute resources to vCloud Director. We also discuss the management of vSphere storage and networking resources.
Chapter 3, Managing vCloud Director Resources, explains the management of provider vDCs, vCloud director network resources, and organization vDCs.
Chapter 4, Managing Complex vCloud Director Networks, shows you how to configure organization and vApp networks as well as create and maintain vCloud networks.
Chapter 5, Managing Catalogs and vApps, elaborates on how you can share vApps and catalogs. Also, we go through the process of creating and deploying vApps. Finally, we show you how to manage vApp storage profiles.
Chapter 6, Managing Security, shows you how to create and replace SSL certificates for vCloud Director. We also go through the procedures to configure and manage vCD access control using a custom LDAP option and vSphere SSO.
You need VMware vSphere 5.1, which includes VMware vSphere ESXi, vCenter Server, any SSH Client (PuTTY), and vSphere Client. Also, you require VMware vCloud Director and the vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) product suite.
If you are a technical professional with cloud administration skills and some amount of VMware vSphere experience, this is the book for you. It also helps you learn about advanced cloud products as well as where they fit and how to configure them. You will also learn to implement VMware vCloud run on private cloud.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "They are in /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin."
A block of code is set as follows:
log4j.appender.vcloud.system.syslog=org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender log4j.appender.vcloud.system.syslog.syslogHost=remoteSyslogHost.example.com #Logs go to port 514 unless you specify a port, as in the disable example below.
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
vmware-vcd-support vmware-vcd-multi-cell-log-collector
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on the Administrator tab."
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