VMware vCloud Director cookbook / Daniel Langenhan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langenhan, Daniel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware.

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Langenhan Daniel: Daniel Langenhan is a Virtualisation expert with formidable skills in Architecture, Design and Implementation for large multi-tier systems. His experience and knowledge of process management, enterprise-level storage, Linux and Windows operation systems has made him and his business a highly sought after international consultancy in the Asia-Pacific and European regions for multinational clientele in the areas of Finance, Communication, Education and Government. Daniel has been working with VMware products since 2002 and is directly associated with VMWare since 2008. His proven track record of successful integrations of Virtualisation into different business areas while minimizing cost and maximizing reliability and effectiveness of the solution for his clients. Currently, Daniel is operating in the Europe and Asia-Pacific region with his company vLeet GmbH and Melbourne Business Boosters Pty Ltd. Daniel's expertise and practical approach to VMWare has resulted in the publication of the following books: Instant VMware vCloud Starter, Packt Publishing VMware View Security Essentials, Packt Publishing VMware vCloud Director Cookbook, Packt Publishing VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, Packt Publishing VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials, Packt Publishing He has also lent his expertise to many other publishing projects as a Technical Editor.

Summary:

Over 80 recipes to help you master VMware vCloud Director Learn how to work with the vCloud API Covers the recently launched VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 Step-by-step instructions to simplify infrastructure provisioning Real-life implementation of tested recipes, packed with illustrations and programming examples In Detail 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.

Contents:

Intro

VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Instant Updates on New Packt Books

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Networks

Introduction

Network Pools

Setting up an External Network

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating 1,000 isolated networks without VXLANs

See also

Making VXLANs work

Integrating the Cisco 1000v into vCD

Giving your networks an Edge

Doing it all(most) without a Distributed Switch

2. vCloud Networks

Usage of different Network types

Isolated vApp Network

VMs directly connected to an External Network

vApp Network connected via vApp router to an External Network

VMs directly connected to an isolated Organization Network

vApp connected via a vApp router to an isolated Organization Network

VMs connected directly to an Edge device

A vApp connected to an Edge via a vApp router

IP management

Some things you will need for all of the recipes for this chapter

Deploying a vApp with a vApp router

How it works.

Forwarding an RDP (or SSH) session into an isolated vApp

There's more…

Creating multiple forwards

Logging network traffic

Other ideas

Accessing a fully isolated vApp or Organization Network

Using Organization Networks for interconnection between vApps

How to do it…

Using templates with firewall and NAT settings

Connecting a physical device to an isolated network

Sharpening the Edge

Using vApp Network fencing

Creating multitiered vApp Networks

Downloading and importing a virtual router into vCloud

Setting up the networking

Setting up the web interface

Configuring the WAN interfaces with the correct network settings

Configuring the OPT1 interfaces with the correct network settings

Configuring static routing

Ensuring no change in IP after redeployment

Ensuring no change occurs in IP after redeployment by setting up the vApp

Ensuring no change occurs in IP after redeployment by retrofitting an existing vApp

Automatic IP management for External Network Pools

Static DNS Pool

Preallocated DNS pool with a manual IP

Automated setup

Linux and Guest Customization

See also.

Creating load-balanced VMs in an organization

Load balancer methods

Creating a secure connection between organizations (which can be in different vClouds)

Connecting to other networks in the same organization

Connection to the outside

Public IPs

More VPN possibilities

Monitoring which network resources have been used where

3. Better vApps

vSphere and vCloud vApps

Roles and rights

Proper vApp startup and shutdown

Important changes in vCloud 5.5

Power Off

Templates

Adding a VM to a vApp

Importing a vApp into vCloud

Importing a VM from vSphere

Importing an OVF/OVA into a catalog

Import an OVF/OVA into My Cloud

Importing from Workstation/Fusion

Aftercare

Migrating running VMs

Exporting a vApp from vCloud

Exporting a vApp from a catalog

Exporting a vApp from My Cloud

Creating a sandbox environment

Creating an organization for the sandbox

Creating an OvDC for the sandbox

Adding networking

Lease time

Allocation model

Networking

Fair warning

Using an Edge gateway to give access to the play infrastructure

Using Guest Customization with pre and post deploy

There's more...

Limits

Old bugs

Logfiles

Template Guest Customization

Using PowerShell or Perl to perform Guest Customization tasks

Using PowerShell or Perl to perform Guest Customization tasks via the VM Properties

Using PowerShell or Perl to perform Guest Customization tasks via an OS script

Windows PowerShell wrapper

Linux Perl wrapper

Sharing a vApp

Joining VMs automatically to domains

Configuring the organization

Configuring the VM

Using vApp maintenance mode

4. Datastores and Storage Profiles

Datastores, profiles, and clusters

Thin provisioning

Fast provisioning

Adding a new storage profile to vCD

Using a specific datastore for templates

Using storage profiles for storage tiering

Making operations on NFS datastores faster

Working with vApp templates and their Shadows

Reducing the chain length of Linked Clones

Configuring storage alarms

Monitoring storage

The problems associated with the backup and restore of vCloud

5. Working with the vCloud API

Logging in to the System organization

Gathering prerequisites and information gathering

Project Onyx

Using PowerShell with vCloud Director

Installing PowerCLI

A PowerShell editor

Connecting vApp

Gathering information

Creating vApp

Powering on vApp

Accessing REST with Firefox

The first connection

Creating a new vApp

Powering on

Accessing vCD via PHP

Base PHP skeleton

Connecting to vCloud

Powering on the vApp

Using vCenter Orchestrator to automate vCloud

Creating a new vApp and powering it on

A scripted cell shutdown

The script

Adding ISO files to vCD automatically

6. Improving the vCloud Design

Creating a naming standard

vSphere naming standard

vCloud naming standard

Example of a naming standard notation

Using service accounts in the vCloud environment

Creating a service account in AD

Creating a service account in SSO

Assigning a service account in vCenter

Adding a vCloud service account to vCNS

AD or SSO?

Understanding vCloud connections

Setting up networks for the vCloud VM.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782177678

1782177671

OCLC:

862374664