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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

Introduction


In Chapter 1, Setting Up Networks, we looked into installing some rather special networks; now let's have a closer look at what one can do with networks in vCloud, but before we dive into the recipes, let's make sure we are all on the same page.

Usage of different Network types

vCloud Director has three different network items. An External Network is basically a port group in vSphere that is imported into vCloud. An Organization Network is an isolated network that exists only in an organization. The same is true for vApp Networks, which exists only in vApps. Have a quick look at the Introduction section of Chapter 1, Setting Up Networks, for some more information about them. We have already seen the following diagram in Chapter 1, Setting Up Networks, but now we will discuss the content one by one, from left to right in more detail. In each example you will also see a diagram of the specific network:

Isolated vApp Network

Isolated vApp Networks exist only inside vApps. They are...