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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

Shutting down and starting up the vCloud environment


In this recipe, we will discuss the proper start-up and shut-down order for the vCloud environment.

Getting ready

We need a complete vSphere and a vCloud environment.

How to do it...

Let's have a closer look at the starting and stopping of the vCloud environment.

Start-up sequence

Start up the following items in the following order:

  1. SSO database

  2. SSO service

  3. Configuration service

  4. vCenter database

  5. vCenter service

  6. Web client service

  7. vCNS

  8. Shared directory

  9. vCloud database

  10. vCloud Director's first cell

  11. vCloud Director's other cells

Shut-down sequence

Shut down the items in the following order:

  1. All vCloud Director cells except one

  2. vCloud Director last cell

  3. vCloud database

  4. Shared directory

  5. vCNS

  6. Web client service

  7. vCenter service

  8. vCenter database

  9. Configuration service

  10. SSO

  11. SSO database

How it works...

The start-up and shut-down sequence of vCloud is important as vCloud will not start up correctly, or worse, it will start up in an inconsistent state if the underlying infrastructure...