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VMware vCloud Director Installation
Automated build
Damian Karlson’s (@sixfootdad) excellent work has brought vCloud Director to the AutoLab.
Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release
2 for Linux x64
oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/express-
edition/downloads/index.html
You may need to unzip the zip file to get the rpm file.
vmware-vcloud-director-1.5.1-622844.bin
VMware-vShield-Manager-5.0.1-638924.ova
If you have a license:
http://www.vmware.com/go/download/vcloud-director
If you want to use the evaluation version:
http://www.vmware.com/go/try-vcloud-director
CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD2.iso
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30
Choose an HTTP mirror closest to you, and then navigate to
/6.3/isos/x86_64. The CentOS-6.3-x86_64-bin-DVD1to2.torrent
is recommended as it will download quickly, although a
torrent client such as uTorrent is required. CentOS 6.2 has
been tested and works as well. It is also recommended that
you perform a hash check of the downloaded iso’s to verify
their integrity.
In order to be able to create a provider virtual datacenter within VMware vCloud Director, the vSphere hosts
will need to have their memory increased from 2048MB to 3372. This leaves just about 1GB of memory as
available resources to vCD and also accounts for the memory used by the vShield VM. If you have an 8GB lab
machine you will need to change the VMware Workstation preference to “Allow most virtual machine memory
to be swapped”. You can find this setting under Edit > Preferences… > Memory. If your Lab machine has an
SSD then this should not cause a performance problem.
Since many vCloud labs don’t actually require the use of VMs with operating systems installed within the
vCloud environment, our recommendation is to create small virtual machines that have 4MB of RAM and 4MB
disks. This will allow you to work with catalogs, creating vApp templates, instantiating vApp templates, and
performing power operations.
VMware vCloud Director installation instructions:
After procuring the necessary software, copy the following files to the Build folder on the NAS VM, typically
//192.168.199.7/Build:
oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
vmware-vcloud-director-1.5.1-622844.bin
VMware-vShield-Manager-5.0.1-638924.ova
Verify or change the Workstation memory preferences to “Allow most virtual machine memory to be
swapped”. If you’re running Workstation on Windows 7, you may be required to run Workstation as an
administrator. If you are lucky enough to have 16GB of RAM in your lab host you should be able to leave all VM
memory in RAM.
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