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This is my First blog about VMware vcloud Director...I hope it's usefull to you for better understanding about VMware vCloud Director...
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), cloud computing is defined as a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned
and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Cloud Computing is a revolution that will define IT beginning in the second decade of the 21st Century. This new form of computing is perfectly poised to provide solutions to a host of business problems within organizations large and small. Cloud Computing will be the catalyst for the long predicted notion of "ubiquitous computing." So just what "is" Cloud Computing, and why it is so different from what has come before? The following pages will detail four main areas in which Cloud Computing allows businesses to break from the past:
Virtualization – The ability to increase computing efficiency.
Democratization of Computing – Bringing enterprise scale infrastructure to small and mid-size businesses.
Scalability and Fast Provisioning – Bringing web scale IT at a rapid pace.
Commoditization of Infrastructure – Enabling IT to focus on the strategic aspects of its role.
This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of three service models and four deployment models.
1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In this environment, the capability provided to the consumer is to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software, which can include operating systems and applications.
2. Software as a Service (SaaS), in which the consumer is given access to software running in the provider’s environment.
3Platform as a Service (PaaS), in which the consumer can use the provider’s hardware to run applications created with the specific programming languages and tools supported by that provider.
Cloud environments may be separated into four categories based on the consumers they serve:
Private cloud—The cloud infrastructure is operated solely for an organization. It may be managed by the organization or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Community cloud—The cloud infrastructure is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizatio or a third party and may exist on premise or off premise.
Public cloud—The cloud infrastructure is made available to the general public or a large industry group and is owned by an organization selling cloud services.
Hybrid cloud—The cloud infrastructure is a composition of two or more clouds (private,community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load-balancing between clouds).
Many enterprises and IT service providers are developing cloud service offerings for public and private environments.
All above given information related to Cloud Computing it's essential for better understand to VMware vCloud Director 1.5...
VMware vCloud Director: The VMware vCloud solution is a suite of products designed to enable an IT organization to build a private cloud on top of a vSphere environment. The product suite consists of vCloud Director 1.5, VMware vShield Edge 5.0 and VMware vCenter chargeback1.6.2.
vCloud Director a single instance of vCloud Director is known as a “cell.” A cell consists of the vCloud Director components installed on a supported system. In larger implementations, multiple cells can be deployed with a front-end IP load balancer to direct end-user traffic to the correct cell.
vCloud Director stores information about managed objects, users and other metadata in a database. The current release of vCloud Director supports Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server for database platforms. In most environments, the vCloud Director and database components are installed on separate virtual machines for proper load handling.
vCenter Server :
Each vCloud Director cell can connect to one or more vCenter Server instances to access resources for running workloads. Each attached vCenter Server instance provides resources, such as CPU and memory, which can be leveraged by vCloud Director.You have to deploy vcloud VM over vCenter by Installabe Package or OVF Appliance , you can donwnlaod trial Package by www.vmware.com.
VMware ESXi hosts:
VMware ESXi hosts provide the compute power for vCloud Director. ESXi hosts are placed in groups of resources, such as clusters or resource pools. These groups and their associated storage are then made available to vCloud Director. Add Esxi Host in Cluster and make a Resource Pool, if you are seeing no option for enabling Resource Pool, edit the cluster setting and select DRS option enable.
VMware vShield Manager:
VMware vShield Manager provides a central point of control for managing, deploying, reporting, logging and integrating vShield as well as third-party security services. Working in conjunction with vCenter Server, VMware vShield Manager enables role-based access control and separation of duties as part of a unified framework for managing virtualization security.
vShield Edge secures the perimeter, or edge, around a virtual datacenter. vShield Edge secures the edge of a virtual datacenter with firewalling, VPN, NAT, DHCP, and Web load-balancing capabilities. vShield Edge allows cloud infrastructures to be scaled in a rapid and secure manner.
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