VMware vCloud® Director ™ 5.1 Evaluation GuideTECHNICAL WHITE PAPERV 1.0 / UPDATED OCTOBER 2012

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 10VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideTypical vCloud Director Deployment The size and scale of vCloud Director deployme

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 11VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe collection of vCenter Server instances that are attached to vCloud Director a

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 12VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideTo simplify the evaluation process further, this guide leverages the benefits prov

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 13VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideCompute Hardware RequirementsThe management cluster requires at least one physica

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 14VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideSoftware and Licensing RequirementsUsers must have licenses for vCloud Director i

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 15VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThis guide also was designed to enable evaluating vCloud Director with limited re

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 16VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou will be prompted for the file to deploy. Select the vCenter Server Appliance.o

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 17VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe OVF deployment wizard then prompts you for the name of the vCenter Server App

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 18VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideNext, define the network configuration for the appliance. These values must match t

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 19VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideA window will be displayed that shows the progress of the appliance deployment. W

VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideTECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 2Table of ContentsGettingStarted ...

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 20VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAfter specifying the location for the vCloud Director Appliance file, click Next t

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 21VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou then are presented with an End User License Agreement (EULA) that you must ac

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 22VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe next screen prompts you to define the host and/or cluster to deploy the applia

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 23VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideOn the properties page, you can specify attributes for a vCloud Director Applianc

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 24VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideIn the Networking Properties section, you define the values to configure the networ

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 25VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAt this point, you are presented with a summary screen to review the information

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 26VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideObserve the status provided and wait for the deployment to finish.Installing the v

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 27VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAs you have done previously for the other components, select the appropriate file

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 28VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou then are presented with an information screen that displays details about the

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 29VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe next screen enables you to specify a name for the vCloud Networking and Secur

VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideTECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 3PerformingvCloudNetworkingandSecurityManagerConfiguration ...VXLA

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 30VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideOn the summary page, select the Power on after deployment option and review the i

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 31VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideObserve the deployment process and wait until it finishes.Configuring the vCenter S

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 32VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAt the initial login, you are presented with a EULA to accept. Select the check b

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 33VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe next step in the configuration of the vCenter Server Appliance enables you to

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 34VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAfter you have started the vCenter Server instance, click Close to exit the setup

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 35VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideConfigure storage profiles for the storage and ensure that the Storage Profiles feat

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 36VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideFor networking purposes, a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch™ has been created wi

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 37VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideWhen it is connected to the console, log in with the username admin and the passw

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 38VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAt a minimum, we must associate this vCloud Networking and Security Manager insta

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 39VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou will be prompted to enter information needed to connect to the vCenter Server

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 4VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideGetting StartedAbout This GuideVMware vCloud® Director™ enables customers to build

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 40VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideVXLAN PreparationVXLAN provides capabilities to dynamically create thousands of n

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 41VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe next screen enables you to select the MTU size and the Teaming Policy to be u

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 42VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideSelect the Connectivity tab again and verify that the status is labeled as Ready.

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 43VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideNow you will be asked to provide your vCloud Director license key. Enter a valid

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 44VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe wizard then enables you to specify the name and installation ID for this vClo

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 45VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThis will bring up a wizard that enables you to specify the information required

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 46VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideDefining the Provider Virtual DatacenterIn this section, you will start the proces

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 47VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThis brings up a wizard that will walk you through the process of creating a prov

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 48VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe next step in the wizard enables you to select the storage that this provider

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 49VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou then can review the information provided in summary form. Ensure that the inf

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 5VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe Journey to Private Cloud Cloud-based infrastructure environments are a frequen

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 50VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideNetwork PoolsNetwork pools provide a collection of undierentiated networks that

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 51VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThis brings up a wizard. On the first page, select the vSphere network to be used

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 52VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation Guide Next, provide a name for this external network. Specify the name Corporate Exter

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 53VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe first step using the new organization wizard is to name the organization. As y

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 54VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideBecause we are not configuring LDAP services, we can define users manually by addin

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 55VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou then can specify whether this organization can share catalogs with other orga

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 56VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThe next step using the wizard enables you to configure a series of policies for t

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 57VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAllocate Organization Resources Allocating resources to an organization involves

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 58VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideNext, select the provider VDC that the organization VDC will draw its resources f

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 59VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation Guide•Pay-As-You-Go Resources are committed only when users create vApps in the organ

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 6VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideWhen enabled to get what they need quickly and easily, end users are more likely t

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 60VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAfter configuring the selected allocation model, you must allocate storage to the

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 61VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation Guide The next step oers the option to create an Edge Gateway for this organization.

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 62VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideTo add the external network that you configured earlier to the organization VDC, s

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 63VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation Guide The wizard enables you to create an organization VDC network. Users within the o

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 64VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideMerging Provider VDCsvCloud Director 5.1 has the ability to merge provider VDCs.

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 65VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou will see the status of the merge operation progress.After it completes, you w

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 66VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideDeveloping Service OeringsAfter the organizations have been created, you can als

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 67VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideBecause we are creating the catalog as the cloud administrator, we have the optio

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 68VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideClick the Catalogs tab to access the catalogs available to this organization. You

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 69VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou can select a storage profile that will be used to store the media. This enable

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 7VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideIn an eort to ease customer transition from vShield Edge 5.0 to vCloud Networking

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 70VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideSpecify the name of the vApp. You can also modify the lease times for this vApp,

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 71VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideOn this page, you can specify the attributes to be used for this virtual machine.

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 72VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideSpecify the virtual machine name and the storage profile that it will use. Click N

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 73VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideClick Next to continue to the summary page. Verify the information and click Fini

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 74VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideSelect the media for the CentOS LiveCD that you uploaded earlier. Click Insert.Cl

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 75VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou can access the console for the virtual machine by clicking the thumbnail. If

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 76VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideYou then can specify the various options for the vApp template. Provide a name an

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 77VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideThis file can detect the changes that occur within an environment when using snaps

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 78VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideAfter the snapshot is complete, return to the virtual machine console. Delete the

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 79VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideConclusionNext StepsWith VMware vCloud Director, you can do the following:•Incre

TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 8VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuideVMware vCenter ServerEach vCloud Director cell can connect to one or more vCenter

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TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 9VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation GuidevAppsA VMware vSphere vApp™ is an abstraction that encapsulates all of the virtual