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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

Using storage profiles for storage tiering


Selecting the right kind of storage can be challenging, but there is a way of making it easier.

Getting ready

We need some kind of tiered storage; this could be SSD, SAS, and SATA disk, or mirrored disk, normal disks, and slow disks. We also need an organization that we can host this tiering in.

How to do it…

  1. Create a storage profile for each of the storage tiers in vSphere; refer to the Adding a new storage profile to vCD recipe in this chapter.

  2. Make sure to name the storage profile so that it makes sense to customers. The classic example is using Gold, Silver, and Bronze to indicate how good or expensive the storage is for customers. Refer to upright the Creating a Naming Standards recipe in Chapter 6, Improving a vCloud Design.

  3. Import the storage profile into vCloud.

  4. Add the storage profile to the OvCD.

  5. Make sure that you publish the details of the storage tiering and provide the details for the customer who uses it.

How it works...

The recipe is extremely...