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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

Setting up and using vSphere Syslog Collector


A Syslog server centralizes logging and can be used for further analysis.

Getting ready

You need the vSphere install DVD and a Windows VM to install it on.

How to do it...

We will now install and use the vSphere Syslog Collector.

Installing VMware Syslog server

To install the VMware Syslog server, perform the following steps:

  1. Insert the vSphere 5.1 installation DVD.

  2. Click on VMware vSphere Syslog Collector.

  3. Follow the installation instructions and choose the path where the Syslog data will be stored:

  4. Select VMware vCenter Server Installation if you want the Syslog server to be integrated in the vSphere Client.

  5. Finish the installation.

  6. Make sure the TCP port 514 is open.

Integrating vCloud into Syslog

To integrate the vCloud into Syslog, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to vCloud as SysAdmin.

  2. Navigate to Administration | General.

  3. Enter the IP of the Syslog server:

  4. Click on Apply.

  5. Log in to vCloud Cell via SSH.

  6. Edit the global.properties file found at /opt/vmware...