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vCloud Architecture Toolkit While at a customer site this past week, I was confronted with a situation. But before I get to that, lets talk about vCenter and vCloud Design. First thing is first, you should be vaguely familiar with vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT). One important topic it discusses is the placement and use of vCenter when it comes to vCloud Director. Its a recommended practice to have 2 vCenter servers in a vCloud environment. Use 1 vCenter server for hosting Datacenters/Clusters/VMs that are relevant to vSphere and vCloud Infrastructure Components. Use another vCenter server for hosting vCloud Resources. Whys this? Separation of management domains. Its important to know that vSphere and vCloud are different animals. Just because you are a vSphere admin, it doesnt make you a vCloud admin. By separating the two environments, you are letting vSphere admins access VMs that are outside the Cloud, and manage VMs that are considered vCloud Infrastructure. vCenter becomes ...

vCloud director SDRS Another feature which was introduced in vSphere 5.1 & vCloud Director 5.1 was the interoperability between vCloud Director & Storage DRS. Now vCloud Director can use datastore clusters for the placements of vCloud vApps, and allow Storage DRS do what it does best � choose the best datastore in the datastore cluster for the initial placement of the vApp, and then load balance the capacity and performance of the datastores through the use of Storage vMotion. However, what about Fast Provisioned vCloud vApps which are based on link clones? Well yes, this is also supported. Storage DRS now understands how to handle linked clones objects which it didn�t do previously. Shadow VMs To begin with, let�s talk a little about Fast Provisioned vCloud vApps and shadow VMs . If a fast provisioned vCloud vApp is deployed from the catalog to a different datastore, a shadow VM of the vApp is instantiated from the catalog on the datastore. A shadow VM is an exact copy of the ...

vCloud Director resources VMware vCloud Blog With hundreds of posts on the vCloud blog (most about vCloud Director), there are many resources but here are the most popular: 5 Things You Need to Know About vCloud Director by David Davis Learn vCloud Director on a Shoestring by David Davis How to Get Started with vCloud Connector - Part 1 by Chris Colotti How to Get Started with vCloud Connector - Part 2 by Chris Colotti  vCloud Director 1.5 Multisite Cloud Considerations by Massimo Re Ferre  Overview of Disaster Recovery in vCloud Director by Chris Colotti and Duncan Epping vCloud Director Resources on the Web What�s New in vCloud Director 1.5 Presentation from Eric Sloof VMware Labs - CloudCleaner How to remote access a Linux GUI from a vCloud environment using a PC or an iPad? HyperVizor.com - Publishing the vCloud Director Portal on the Internet Integrating VMware vCloud Director with vShield Edge and vShield App Changing/Renewing your...