VMware vCloud Director cookbook
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628139306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- VMware vCloud Director Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- VMware vCloud Director Cookbook
- 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
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Making VXLANs work
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- See also
- Integrating the Cisco 1000v into vCD
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Giving your networks an Edge
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Doing it all(most) without a Distributed Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- 2. vCloud Networks
- Introduction
- 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
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works.
- Forwarding an RDP (or SSH) session into an isolated vApp
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more…
- Creating multiple forwards
- Logging network traffic
- Other ideas
- See also
- Accessing a fully isolated vApp or Organization Network
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more…
- See also
- Using Organization Networks for interconnection between vApps
- Getting ready
- How to do it…
- How it works...
- There's more…
- Using templates with firewall and NAT settings
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Connecting a physical device to an isolated network
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Sharpening the Edge
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Using vApp Network fencing
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Creating multitiered vApp Networks
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 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
- See also
- Ensuring no change in IP after redeployment
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- 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
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Automatic IP management for External Network Pools
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 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
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Load balancer methods
- See also
- Creating a secure connection between organizations (which can be in different vClouds)
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- 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
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- 3. Better vApps
- Introduction
- vSphere and vCloud vApps
- Roles and rights
- Proper vApp startup and shutdown
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Important changes in vCloud 5.5
- There's more...
- Power Off
- Templates
- Adding a VM to a vApp
- Getting ready
- How to do it…
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Importing a vApp into vCloud
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Importing a VM from vSphere
- Importing an OVF/OVA into a catalog
- Import an OVF/OVA into My Cloud
- Importing from Workstation/Fusion
- How it works...
- Important changes in vCloud 5.5
- There's more...
- Aftercare
- Migrating running VMs
- See also
- Exporting a vApp from vCloud
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Exporting a vApp from a catalog
- Exporting a vApp from My Cloud
- How it works...
- See also
- Creating a sandbox environment
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating an organization for the sandbox
- Creating an OvDC for the sandbox
- Adding networking
- How it works...
- Lease time
- Allocation model
- Networking
- There's more...
- Fair warning
- Using an Edge gateway to give access to the play infrastructure
- Using Guest Customization with pre and post deploy
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works.
- There's more...
- Limits
- Old bugs
- Logfiles
- Template Guest Customization
- See also
- Using PowerShell or Perl to perform Guest Customization tasks
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- 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
- How it works...
- Windows PowerShell wrapper
- Linux Perl wrapper
- There's more...
- See also
- Sharing a vApp
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Joining VMs automatically to domains
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Configuring the organization
- Configuring the VM
- Using vApp maintenance mode
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- 4. Datastores and Storage Profiles
- Introduction
- Datastores, profiles, and clusters
- Thin provisioning
- Fast provisioning
- Adding a new storage profile to vCD
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more…
- See also
- Using a specific datastore for templates
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- See also
- Using storage profiles for storage tiering
- Getting ready
- How to do it…
- How it works...
- See also
- Making operations on NFS datastores faster
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more…
- See also
- Working with vApp templates and their Shadows
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more…
- Reducing the chain length of Linked Clones
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring storage alarms
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Monitoring storage
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works.
- The problems associated with the backup and restore of vCloud
- How it works...
- 5. Working with the vCloud API
- Introduction
- Logging in to the System organization
- Gathering prerequisites and information gathering
- Project Onyx
- Using PowerShell with vCloud Director
- Getting ready
- Installing PowerCLI
- A PowerShell editor
- How to do it...
- Connecting vApp
- Gathering information
- Creating vApp
- Powering on vApp
- How it works...
- See also
- Accessing REST with Firefox
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- The first connection
- Gathering information
- Creating a new vApp
- Powering on
- How it works...
- See also
- Accessing vCD via PHP
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Base PHP skeleton
- Connecting to vCloud
- Gathering information
- Creating a new vApp
- Powering on the vApp
- How it works...
- See also
- Using vCenter Orchestrator to automate vCloud
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- The first connection
- Gathering information
- Creating a new vApp and powering it on
- How it works...
- There's more…
- See also
- A scripted cell shutdown
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- The script
- How it works...
- There's more…
- Adding ISO files to vCD automatically
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- 6. Improving the vCloud Design
- Introduction
- Creating a naming standard
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- vSphere naming standard
- vCloud naming standard
- Example of a naming standard notation
- How it works...
- Using service accounts in the vCloud environment
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- 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
- How it works...
- AD or SSO?
- Understanding vCloud connections
- There's more...
- See also.
- Setting up networks for the vCloud VM.
