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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 OvDCs for compute tiering


We have already discussed storage tiering using storage profiles (see Chapter 4, Datastores and Storage Profiles); now we will talk about compute tiering and what one can do.

Getting ready

The requirements for this recipe vary wildly and depend on what you want to do and what you have.

The least demanding model requires one PvDC, and the more demanding ones require different clusters (PvDCs).

How to do it...

  1. Define the kind of tiering you would want.

    Do you want to have different cluster settings (HA), or do you want to use different Allocation Model settings?

  2. Create the different OvDCs. Depending on your requirements, you may need to create different PvDCs.

  3. It is of the most importance to name the OvDCs so that customers can understand what they are getting. A very common method is to use the names Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

  4. Publish the tiering and explain to the customers what they are getting with each tier and what it may cost them (or you). This will ensure that...