What’s New in vCloud Director and vCloud
Automation Center
Joe Desmond, VMware Certified Instructor
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Vmware vCloud Director
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vCD 5.5 Introduction
• vCloud Director is a key component of the vCloud Suite providing a self
service portal and catalog that enables policy-based infrastructure and
application provisioning and automated operation management.
• What’s New?
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Catalog Enhancements
vApp Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management
Deploy vApps Directly to and from the VDC
OVA File Format Support
vCloud Director Cell Supported on CentOS
Chrome Web Browser and Mac OS Virtual Machine Console Support
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Catalog Enhancements – Limit Access to Shared Catalogs
• Previous vCloud Director versions supported both nonshared and shared
catalogs.
• Shared catalogs were available to all organizations
• No way to limit access
• Potential impact to multi-tenancy security
• vCloud Director 5.5 allows administrators to restrict access to shared catalogs.
• Sharing tab added to the Catalog Properties dialog screen
• Ability to add Members or Organization to approved sharing list
• Improves security through restriction of access to shared catalog
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Catalog Enhancements – Limit Access to Shared Catalogs
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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Publish and Subscribe
• Catalogs now available for publishing outside of the
vCloud Director instance
• Available via URL created when Catalog is shared
• Provide URL to other vCloud administrators to allow for
subscription to Catalog
• Publishing administrator retains control of access to
Catalog
• Password protection can be implemented
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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Publish and Subscribe
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• Subscribed Catalogs are copied to subscribers side
• Read-only
• Updates are synchronized
• Done via HTTPS using VMware Content Subscription Protocol (VCSP)
• Catalogs are pre-exported to a spooling area when published
• Support for 3rd party replication tools supported for synchronization
• Catalogs can be automatically or on-demand synchronized
• Full synchronization or metadata only download
• Metadata only download allows on-demand access to content at the end
of the catalog without having to wait for full download to finish.
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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Publish and Subscribe
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• Automated and secure method of sharing content
• Eliminates need to maintain identical vApp templates and media files at
multiple locations
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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Versioning
• Versioning information is now stored for Catalog Items
• Version Column added to the Catalog Screen
• Eliminates need to using unique names for version identification
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Catalog Enhancements – Support for Uploading Any Content
Type
• Allows any file type to be uploaded to the Catalog
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Vmware vFabric Application Director blueprints
ISOs
.ovf files
Floppy Images
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vApp Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management – Customize
Hardware Settings
• Administrators can customize CPU, Memory, and hard-disk settings
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Assists when multiple vApps needed to test different scenarios
Eliminates need for multiple vApps
Reduces storage consumption
Reduces need to maintain multiple vApp templates
• Patch updates
• vApp template is not modified when a change is made to vApp deployed
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vApp Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management – Support for
Hot Add and Hot Remove of Hard Disks and NICs
• vCloud Director 5.1 supported dynamic add, extend, and removal of hard disks
from running virtual machines
• vCloud Director 5.5 adds support for hot-add/removal of NICs
• Dynamically connect and disconnect NICs from VM
• The primary NIC cannot be modified
• Settings
• Removal
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