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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

Working with vApp templates and their Shadows


We've learned how fast provisioning creates Shadow VMs; in the following sections we will cover how to work with them and what to do when there are problems.

Getting ready

We need a vApp template that has been deployed to OvDC that is configured with fast provisioning.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin or DomainAdmin.

  2. Navigate to the organization you have deployed the vApp templates from.

  3. Click on Catalogs and then on vApp Templates.

  4. You will now see that the vApp template has a number greater than 0 in the column Shadow VMs. If this is not the case, you have not deployed the vApp template onto an OvDC that has fast provisioning enabled.

  5. Double-click on the vApp template; you now see some details about the vApp template.

  6. Click on Shadow VMs. This will show you where the Shadow VM is deployed and what its vSphere name is.

  7. Double-click on one Shadow VM and you will see even more details.

  8. Now log in to vSphere using WebClient.

  9. Click on vCenter and...