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Vmware Private Cloud Computing With Vcloud Director

by: Gallagher, Simon; Dalgleish, Aidan

Vmware Private Cloud Computing With Vcloud Director

by: Gallagher, Simon; Dalgleish, Aidan

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9781118180587
ISBN 10:
1118180585
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/01/2013
Publisher: Sybex

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Summary

Build a private cloud with the leading virtualization platform Driven by virtualization, the investment and adoption of cloud computing continues to grow at an impressive rate. Virtualization is the enabling technology for private clouds so its no wonder customers who use VMware vSphere are leveraging this leading platform for private cloud. VMware Private Cloud Computing is the first book of its kind to delve into this critical subject matter and shows IT administrators how to build a private cloud and deliver it as a service with VMware cloud computing solutions, including VMware vSphere 5 and VMware vCloud Director 1.5. Explains how to identify the components of a VMware private cloud and turn them into an intelligent end-user experience Helps you understand the delivery model of infrastructure as a service Zeroes in on building a service catalog with vCloud Director and make external integrations through automation Highlights ways to measure the impact of a private cloud on legacy applications and infrastructure Shows you how to deliver an end-to-end cloud solution to an end user with a fully managed guest that is integrated into the corporate network VMware Private Cloud is essential reading for anyone who is looking to move onto the next stage of evolution of business computing.

Author Biography

Simon Gallagher, VCP3/4, VCAP4-DCD, VCAP4-DCA, is an infrastructure architect and a cloud specialist. VMware recognized his work within the virtualization community with vExpert awards in 2009 and 2010. He blogs about virtualization and infrastructure technologies at http://vinf.net.

Foreword xxiii

Introduction xxv

Part I • Private Cloud Foundations 1

Chapter 1 • What Makes a Private Cloud? 3

Understanding the Great Abstraction Layer 3

Abstraction and Cloud Computing 5

Virtualization and Cloud Computing 6

Defi ning Cloud Computing 7

On-Demand Self-Service 7

Broad Network Access 8

Resource Pooling 8

Rapid Elasticity 8

Measured Service 9

Is Virtualization Cloud Computing? 9

Are Traditional Services Cloud Computing? 10

Understanding Services and Delivery Models 11

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 12

Platform as a Service (PaaS) 13

Software as a Service (SaaS) 15

Public Cloud 15

Private Cloud 16

Hybrid Cloud 16

Community Cloud 17

Summary 17

Chapter 2 • Developing Your Strategy 19

Developing Your Strategy 19

Buy or Build? 21

Deciding to Buy 21

Service Level Agreement 21

Service Credits 23

Disaster Recovery 23

Cost Structure 23

Deciding to Build 24

Greenfi eld or Reengineer? 24

Hardware Platform 24

Datacenter Facilities 24

Virtual or Physical Servers 24

Application Stack Considerations 25

Design for Failure 27

Scale-Out Elasticity 28

Framework (PaaS) 30

Gathering Requirements 31

Documenting Requirements 31

Defi ne Use Cases 31

Who Are Your Users? 31

What Do They Do? 32

What Would They Like to Do? 32

Executive Sponsorship 32

Dealing with “the Directive” 32

“The Pitch”: Into the Dragon’s Den 33

Explaining the Current State of Your Organization 35

Proposing Your Solution 35

Presenting the Numbers 36

How Long, Who, and When? 37

Case Study 37

Cost Breakdown 37

Logical Diagrams 38

Overcoming Hurdles 38

Cloud? Our Auditors Will Go Nuts! 38

But Amazon Will Sell Me This for Like $1 a Day 39

Life Cycle 39

Inception 41

Feasibility 41

Development 41

Emerging Service 41

Established Service 42

Deprecated Service 42

Decommissioned Service 43

Building the Right Team 43

Product/Portfolio Manager 43

Change Manager 43

Capacity Manager 44

Commercial Manager 45

Operations Manager 45

Relationship Manager 45

Summary 45

Chapter 3 • Introducing VMware vCloud Director 47

Heriarchical Management 47

Understanding How vCloud Director Works 49

Exploring the Interfaces 49

Exploring vCloud Director’s Core Components 51

Cell Servers 51

Database 52

vCenter 52

vCloud Networking and Security Services 53

vCNS Manager 53

Chargeback Manager 54

Application Programming Interface 54

Virtual Datacenter Objects 54

Organization 54

Provider Virtual Data Center 56

Organization Virtual Data Center 56

Catalog 58

vApp 58

vCloud Networking 59

vCloud Network Isolation (VCNI) 59

Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) 59

Network Pools 62

vCloud Director Networks 63

Summary 68

Part II • Designing Your Cloud Service 71

Chapter 4 • Defi ning the Service Catalog 73

From Stability to Dynamic Change 73

Understanding the Service Catalog 74

Existing Standard Builds 74

Sharing Service Catalogs 76

The vApp 77

Examples of vApp Use Cases 78

Self-Contained LAMP Stack 78

Production SQL Server 79

Test SQL Server 79

Isolated Server Sandbox 80

Clone of Production Application Stack 80

Operating System Templates 81

Media Files 81

What Is Your Current Environment? 82

Active Directory 82

Backup/Restore 84

IP Addressing 84

Management Agents and Firewalling 85

Legacy System Dependencies 85

Security Considerations 85

N-Tier Applications 86

End-to-End Automation 86

Summary 87

Chapter 5 • Platform Design for vCloud Director 89

Identifying Design Goals 89

Provider Design Goals 91

Consumer Design Goals 92

Layered External Services 95

Identifying Design Constraints 95

Common Architecture Decisions 96

Conceptual Design 96

Management Pod 97

Resource Pod(s) 98

Design for Failure 100

Design for Manageability 101

Scaling Approaches 101

Availability/Performance 101

Designing the Management Pod 102

vCloud Databases 102

vCloud Cell Servers 103

Transfer Storage 107

SSL Certifi cates 107

vCNS Manager 109

Resource Pod Design 109

Compute 109

Networking 110

vCNS Gateway 112

Storage 112

Summary 114

Chapter 6 • Building a Cost Model 117

Economics of Cloud 118

Building a Cost Matrix 119

Table of Costs 120

Price Breaks 122

Step Changes 123

Cost vsPrice 124

Cost of Operation 124

Standardizing Units of Consumption 125

Custom Confi gurations 126

Software Licensing for the Cloud 126

Service Provider Licensing 128

Microsoft SPLA 129

VMware Service Provider Program 130

Summary 130

Part III • Building the Cloud 133

Chapter 7 • Installing VMware vCloud Director 135

Obtaining the Media 135

Preparing the Management Pod 136

DNS Configuration 138

vCenter Server 138

Deploying vShield Manager 138

vCloud Director Database 143

Preparing the Cell Servers 148

Configuring the Management Pod 151

Installing vCloud Director 151

Configuring the Transfer Location 152

Creating SSL Certificates 153

Generating a Self-Signed SSL Certificate 154

Using a SSL Certificate Signed by a Public or Internal Authority 157

Configuring the First Cell Server 158

Configuring the RHEL Firewall for vCloud 162

Securing the Configuration Files 164

Creating Sysprep Packages 165

vCloud Director Setup Wizard 168

Installing Additional Cell Servers 172

Summary 174

Chapter 8 • Delivering Services 177

Laying the Foundation: Building the Resource Pod 177

Building an Example Resource Pod 178

Associating vCNS Manager with Your Resource Pod 182

Licensing vCloud Networking and Security 183

Configuring LDAP Authentication 185

Setting the SMTP Server 188

Attaching a vCenter Server to Your Resource Pod 188

Creating PvDCs 190

Creating an External Network 197

Creating a Network Pool 201

Creating an Organization 203

Creating an Organization Virtual Datacenter 210

Confi guring the Resource Model 212

Allocating Storage 225

Allocating Networks 225

Connecting an Org vDC to the External Network 228

Creating a vCNS Edge Gateway 232

Creating an Initial Service Catalog 236

Creating a Public Catalog 236

Uploading Media to vCloud Director 240

Exporting a VM from vCenter for Use with vCloud Director in OVF Format 244

Handing Over Access to Your Consumers 246

Summary 246

Chapter 9 • Consuming Services 249

Example Configuration for This Chapter 249

Creating Your First vApp as a Consumer 251

Creating an Organization Catalog 251

Creating a Simple vApp from a Shared Catalog 254

Customizing a vApp 267

Uploading Your vApp to a Catalog 268

Deploying a vApp from a Template 270

Deploying a vApp on a vApp Network 276

Deploying a vApp with IP Load Balancing 282

Summary 293

Chapter 10 • Integrating Automation 295

Working with vCloud APIs 295

Introducing VMware vSphere PowerCLI 297

Microsoft PowerShell Overview 298

Getting Started with PowerCLI 298

PowerCLI and vCloud Director Cmdlets 301

PowerCLI and Combining vCloud Director and vSphere Cmdlets 305

PowerCLI Tools 306

Using VMware vCenter Orchestrator 306

Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator 307

Plug-in Overview and Selection Considerations 307

Administration of vCenter Orchestrator 309

Locating, Installing, and Confi guring Plug-ins 310

Automating vCloud Director with vCenter Orchestrator 312

vCenter Orchestrator Policies 319

Working with RabbitMQ 319

Getting Started with RabbitMQ 320

Preparing RabbitMQ for Use with vCloud Director 320

Configuring vCloud Director Notifications 322

Integrating vCenter Orchestrator with RabbitMQ 323

Summary 326

Part IV • Operating the Cloud 327

Chapter 11 • Managing Your Cloud 329

How Managing vCloud Differs from Managing vSphere 329

Management Pod 330

Resource Pod 330

Org vDCs 331

Understanding Change Management 331

Capacity Planning 333

Team Structure 333

Monitoring Performance and Availability 335

Using Malware Protection 336

Balancing Capacity and Demand 337

Adding More ESX Hosts to a PvDC 337

Removing ESX Hosts from a PvDC 340

Adding Datastores 341

Adding Additional vCenter Servers 343

Troubleshooting vCloud Director 343

Summary 348

Chapter 12 • Business Continuity y 349

Backing Up Consumer Workloads 349

The New Challenge 350

Assessing Current Backup Options 351

Agent-Based Backups 352

Agent-Based Backups and Backup Networks 356

VADP-Derived Backups 360

Other Backups 362

Understanding Disaster Recovery Strategies 363

VMware vSphere Disaster Recovery 365

vCloud Director Challenges 368

vCloud Director Integration with vSphere 368

VMware Site Recovery Manager 368

Current Options 370

VMware Site Recovery Manager 370

Custom-Built Solutions 371

High-Availability Metro Clusters 373

Non-VMware Solutions 374

Summary 375

Index 377

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