Introduction to VMware vCloud Director. Presented on 17/02/2011 at expertV. Also describes the building blocks of vCD.

1. vCloud Director Erik Bussink Senior Virtualization Specialist 17/02/2011

2. vCloud Director Introduction to the hybrid cloud VMware vCloud Director Architecture vCloud Components Catalog Use Cases Demo Agenda

3. The hybrid cloud is the best model Cloud ServiceProviders Bridging Enterprises Cloud Computingis a way of doing computing Hybrid Cloud Composition of 2 or more interoperable clouds, enabling data and application portability Public Cloud Accessible over the Internet for general consumption Private Cloud Operated solely for an organization, typically within the firewall

5. The new IT supply chain: standardized catalogue based service delivery

7. Better than physical Application QoS: availability and security

8. Highly automated, policy-based management

9. Hybrid cloud infrastructureVMware vSphere Cloud Provider

10. VMware vCloud Director drives agility and efficiency. Securely. Increase business agility by empowering users to self-deploy services with the click of a button Maintain security and control over multi-tenant environments with user controls and VMware vShield Reduce costs by efficiently delivering resources to internal organizations as secure virtual datacenters Leverage existing investments and open standards to ensure interoperability and application portability between clouds Consuming Infrastructure as a Service Producing Infrastructure as a Service

12. To make this possible, cloud requires new resource abstractions VMware vCloud Director Organization: Marketing Organization: Finance Organization VDCs Catalogs Organization VDCs Catalogs Resource Pools Datastores Port Groups Users & Policies Users & Policies Provider Virtual Datacenters (Gold) (Silver) (Bronze) (Gold) (Bronze) (Silver) VMware vCenter Server VMware vSphere Secure Private Cloud

14. Add load balancer in front of Cells

16. Multiple vCenter Servers attached to vCD can be in linked mode (optional)

17. All vCenter Servers should be in same site to avoid potential latency

18. Scale vSphere resources as needed

19. Consider concurrent provisioning operation limits in vCenter

20. vSphere resource limits applyvCD Web Console (points to single URL) Load Balancer vCloud Director Database vCD “Cluster” vCD Cell vCD Cell vCD Cell vCenter Server vCenter Server vCenter Server vCenter Server vCenter Server vCenter Server Resource Pools Resource Pools Resource Pools Resource Pools Resource Pools Resource Pools Cloud Resource Groups

21. vCloud Director Portals System Administrator View System Portal Organization Portal End User/Consumer View Organization Administrator View

22. VMware vCloud Director Resource Allocation Models for Organization vDCs Allocated sub-resources of a provider vDC Allocation uses a model, each of which can set limits on number of VMs Pool expands to accommodate resources reserved on demand vApp vApp Partially reserved pool of resources Overcommit Range Guarantee Actual Fully reserved pool of resources Guarantee Actual

23. vCloud Components vShield Manager ChargeBack Manager vCloud Connector vCloud Request Manager

25. Provides firewall, NAT, port forwarding, IP masquerading and DHCP functionality (enforces multi-tenancy)

26. Edge appliances deployed and managed by VMware vCloud Director on vSphere.

27. Separate client not required.

33. See resources (VMs, vApps, templates) on other vSphere instances

34. Copy VMs/vApps/templates between vSphere & vClouds

35. Invoke basic operations (e.g. power on/off) on vApps in vClouds

37. Capability: vApp Provisioning with Approvals Cloud Consumer (eg: QA Engineer): Requests new vApp based on template. Approver (eg: Line Manager): Receives email notification and approves via email. Key Value: Controlled approvals and governance Initiate Request Approval Workflow Email Notification

38. Capability: Policy Based Cloud Partitioning Cloud Consumer (eg: Project Manager, QA Manager): Requests new “Cloud”. Approver (eg: Line-Manager): Receives email notification and approves via email. Initiate Request Approval Workflow Email Notification Key Value:Simplify creation and management of Organizations.

40. Operate on VMs as one unit

41. Select boot order of VMs, start delays and stop delays

45. Empty Small, medium and large VMs/vApps.

46. Pre-installed Windows & Linux VMs

47. OS Media files (ISO, floppy images)

48. App catalogs

49. Corp standard Database servers, application servers

50. If post deploy configurations are needed, guest customization in VCD can run custom scripts Linux Templates Windows Templates Engineering vApps IT - Oracle vApps

53. Description

54. Catalog

55. VDC

56. Owner

58. Organization

59. vApp

60. Managed at two layers: Users& Cloud Provider

61. An External Network, is a means of providing a connection with the “outside world”.

62. Set up by Cloud “Providers”

63. An Organization Network is a network contained within an organization.

64. Set up by Cloud “Providers”

66. Pre-production

67. Demos

68. Training