Learning VMware vCloud Air电子书

Learning VMware vCloud Air

Table of Contents

Learning VMware vCloud Air

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with VMware vCloud Air

What is cloud computing?

How is cloud computing useful?

vCloud Air – concepts and components

vCloud Air service offerings

The types of vCloud Air services

The Dedicated Cloud service

The Virtual Private Cloud service

The Disaster Recovery service

vSphere Replication

vCloud Connector

Signing up for VMware vCloud Air

Regions

Navigating through the interface

Resource usage

Virtual machines

Gateways

Networks

Virtual Datacenters – VDCs

User management

Summary

2. Working with Virtual Machines

What is a virtual machine?

vApps, templates, and catalogs

Getting started with virtual machines

Creating a virtual machine using a template

Creating a virtual machine from scratch

The virtual machine power operations

Editing the virtual machine properties using vCloud Air

Editing the virtual machine properties using vCloud director

Creating custom catalogs

Accessing virtual machines using the VMRC

Monitoring virtual machines

Best practices and tips

Summary

3. vCloud Air Networking and Security

The vCloud Air networking components

Gateways and networks

Gateways

Networks

Assigning the public IPs

Connecting virtual machines to a network

Connecting virtual machines to the Internet

Scenario

Networking services provided by gateways

DHCP

NAT

The Firewall

Static routing

Virtual private networks

Load balancing

Scenario

Best practices and tips

Summary

4. Extending vCloud Air

VPNs

Site-to-site VPN connectivity

Multi-site VPN connectivity

Extending datacenters to clouds using vCloud Connector

What is VMware vCloud Connector?

vCloud Connector features

Deploying vCloud Connector in your environment

Deploying vCloud Connector Server

Deploying the vCloud Connector node

Registering vCloud Connector in vSphere Client

Adding clouds to vCloud Connector

Copying content between clouds using vCloud Connector

Best practices and tips

Summary

5. Monitoring Workloads on vCloud Air

The VMware vRealize Suite

The VMware vRealize Operations

Adding the Data Nodes

Adding the Remote Collector Nodes

Configuring HA for vRealize Operations Master Nodes

Configuring vRealize Operations for the first use

The vRealize Operations Manager Solutions

Configuring the vSphere Solutions pack

Configuring the vCloud Air Management Pack

The vCloud Air Management Pack Dashboards

Best practices and tips

Summary

6. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery using vCloud Air

The importance of business continuity and disaster recovery

The need for cloud-based disaster recovery

VMware vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery

Key features and the benefits of VMware vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery

Setting up a disaster recovery service

Setting up VMware vSphere Replication

Configuring a vSphere Replication connection with vCloud Air

Configuring the virtual machine replication

Performing the virtual machine test recovery

VMware vCloud Air Data Protection

Best practices and tips

Summary

Index