Book Image

VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

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

Exporting a vApp from vCloud


Exporting a vApp from vCloud is simple and straightforward; just let me say a few words on the specifics.

Getting ready

Obviously we will need a vApp with at least one VM. You have to be an Org Admin to be able to export a VM.

How to do it...

In vCloud 5.1 you can only export from the library, using vCloud 5.5 you can also export a vApp from My Cloud.

Exporting a vApp from a catalog

Perform the following steps to export a vApp from a catalog:

  1. Navigate to the organization you want to export from.

  2. Click on Catalogs.

  3. Click on vApp Templates.

  4. Right-click on the VM that you wish to export, and select Download... as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click on Browse, and select a folder and a name to store the OVF export.

  6. If you select the Preserve identity information checkbox, the exported VM will keep its UUID, MAC, and network settings.

  7. Wait until the VM is exported.

Exporting a vApp from My Cloud

This is a new function in vCloud 5.5. Follow the ensuing steps to export a vApp...