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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

Adding a new storage profile to vCD


You have just created a new storage profile in vSphere but now need to add it to an OvDC. Here is how it's done.

Getting ready

First, we need a datastore that has been added to the ESXi hosts. We also need an organization as well as an OvDC, to which we can add it.

How to do it...

To add a storage profile to vCloud, there are three major steps involved.

  1. Creating a user-defined storage capability:

    1. Log in to vCenter using the WebClient.

    2. Click on vCenter and then on Datastores.

    3. Select the first datastore that should be part of the new storage profile.

    4. Click on Manage in the tabs and then on Profiles.

    5. Now we add user-defined storage capability to a datastore; click on the Assign Storage Capability button.

    6. Now you can select from an existing User-defined Storage Capability datastore or create a new one by clicking on New.

    7. If you click on New, give the capability a name and a description, for example, vCloud-MyOrg.

    8. Click on OK, and then again OK. Now the datastore should...