•  1. Overview
  • 1.1 Audience
  • 1.2 Scope
•  2. vCloud Consumption Approach
  • 2.1 vCloud Consumer Resources
  • 2.2 vCloud Consumer Resource Capacity
•  3. Choosing a vCloud Consumption Model
  • 3.1 Consuming vCloud Services
  •  3.2 vCloud Director Allocation Models
    • 3.2.1 Allocation Pool
    • 3.2.2 Pay As You Go
    • 3.2.3 Reservation Pool
    • 3.2.4 Storage Allocation
•  4. Organization Catalogs
  •  4.1 Understanding Catalogs
    • 4.1.1 Software Media Files
    • 4.1.2 vApp
  •  4.2 Populating a Catalog
    •  4.2.1 Catalog Items
      • 4.2.1.1. Application Developer Use Case
      • 4.2.1.2. Business User Use Case
    • 4.2.2 Cost
    • 4.2.3 Global Catalog
    • 4.2.4 vFabric Application Director
  •  4.3 Working with Catalogs
    • 4.3.1 Browsing
    • 4.3.2 Catalog Access
    • 4.3.3 Sharing a Catalog
    •  4.3.4 Publishing a Catalog
      • 4.3.4.1. Enterprise Environment Use Case
      • 4.3.4.2. Service Provider Environment Use Case
    • 4.3.5 Media File Limitations
    • 4.3.6 Updating vApp Templates
    • 4.3.7 Deploying vApps
    •  4.3.8 Selecting Networks
      • 4.3.8.1. Internal vApp Networks
      • 4.3.8.2. Organization Virtual Datacenter Networks
•  5. Creating and Managing vApps
  •  5.1 Migrating Workloads to a vCloud
    • 5.1.1 Migrating Physical Workloads to vSphere
    • 5.1.2 Migrating Virtual Workloads to vCloud Director
    •  5.1.3 vApp Migration
      • 5.1.3.1. Migration Process
      • 5.1.3.2. vApp Power Action Configuration
      • 5.1.3.3. vApp Network Configuration
      • 5.1.3.4. Hardware Configuration
      • 5.1.3.5. Guest OS Customization
      • 5.1.3.6. Resource Allocation
  •  5.2 Using vCloud Workloads
    • 5.2.1 Logging in to the vCloud Director Portal
    • 5.2.2 Deploying a vApp
    • 5.2.3 Interacting with the vApp
    • 5.2.4 Runtime and Storage Leases
  •  5.3 Directory Services in vCloud
    •  5.3.1 Hosting Locations for Directory Services
      • 5.3.1.1. External to the vCloud
      • 5.3.1.2. Within the vCloud
      • 5.3.1.3. Single Sign-On
  •  5.4 vApp Deployment Readiness
    •  5.4.1 vApp Design Considerations
      • 5.4.1.1. General Design Considerations
      • 5.4.1.2. vApp and Virtual Machine Hardware Version Considerations
      • 5.4.1.3. Network Design Considerations
      • 5.4.1.4. Direct – External Organization Virtual Datacenter Network
      • 5.4.1.5. Direct – External Organization Virtual Datacenter Network (Routed)
      • 5.4.1.6. Direct – Internal Organization Virtual Datacenter Network (Isolated)
      • 5.4.1.7. Fenced – Dynamically or Manually Created
      • 5.4.1.8. NAT-Routed – External Organization Virtual Datacenter Network (Routed)
      • 5.4.1.9. NAT-Routed – Internal Organization Virtual Datacenter network (Isolated)
      • 5.4.1.10. NAT-Routed – External Organization Virtual Datacenter Network (Direct)
      • 5.4.1.11. Isolated vApp Network
    •  5.4.2 vApp Limitations within vCloud
      • 5.4.2.1. OVF Restrictions
      • 5.4.2.2. Backup Limitations
      • 5.4.2.3. Disaster Recovery in vCloud
    • 5.4.3 vApp Validations
    • 5.4.4 vApp Lifecycle Considerations
    • 5.4.5 OVF Properties
    • 5.4.6 OVF Package Upload Latency Considerations
    •  5.4.7 Relocate Existing vApps
      • 5.4.7.1. Prerequisites
      • 5.4.7.2. Use Cases
      • 5.4.7.3. Storage vMotion Procedure
      • 5.4.7.4. Risks
      • 5.4.7.5. Impact
    • 5.4.8 Moving a vApp Between Organization Virtual Datacenters
  •  5.5 Updating vApps
    •  5.5.1 Changing a Virtual Machine MAC Address
      • 5.5.1.1. Prerequisites
      • 5.5.1.2. Use Cases
      • 5.5.1.3. vCloud Director MAC Address Reset Procedure
    • 5.5.2 Impact and Risks
  •  5.6 Establishing Service Levels
    • 5.6.1 Defining a Service Level Agreement
    • 5.6.2 vCloud Layers and Service Level Agreements
    • 5.6.3 vCloud Considerations for Service Level Agreements
•  6. Consuming vCloud with the API
  •  6.1 Characteristics of the API
    • 6.1.1 Self Service APIs
    • 6.1.2 Administrative APIs
  • 6.2 API Functions
  • 6.3 What’s New in the vCloud 5.1 API
  • 6.4 vCloud SDK
• 7. Consuming vCloud with vFabric Application Director
• 8. References

VMware® vCloud® Architecture Toolkit

References