Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Air - Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand User's Guide
- Contents
- About This User's Guide
- Introducing Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Navigating Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Working with Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Overview
- Overview of Storage Tiers
- vApp Overview
- End User Virtual Machine Access
- Sort and View Virtual Machines
- Create a Virtual Machine from a Template
- Create a Virtual Machine Without Using a Template
- Virtual Machine Power Operations
- Edit Virtual Machine Properties
- Adjust Virtual Machine Resources
- Add a Disk to a Virtual Machine
- Set Storage and Runtime Leases for a vApp
- Manage Virtual Machine Properties in vCloud Director
- Connect a Virtual Machine to a Network
- Change Network Assignments for a Virtual Machine
- Connect a Virtual Machine to the Internet
- Log Into a Virtual Machine Guest OS with the Console
- Virtual Machine Monitoring
- Work with Virtual Machine Snapshots
- Managing Your Public Cloud Environment
- Capacity for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
- Geographical Locations
- About Gateways and Networks
- Virtual Data Center Overview
- Create a Virtual Data Center
- Edit or Delete a Virtual Data Center
- Virtual Data Center Permissions
- Catalogs and Templates Overview
- Manage Catalogs in vCloud Director
- Role-based User Account Management
- Add a User to Your Service
- Edit User Details
- Delete a User from Your Service
- Reset a User's Password
- Managing User Groups
- Metering Resource Usage
- Index
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Bring Your Own Tools: Typically, customers make large investments in custom and third-party tools
outside the traditional VMware toolset to manage their private cloud resources.
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand provides support for customers’ tools without requiring tool re-
architecture to work in the public cloud.
NOTE While customers do not have the ability to monitor the management stack directly, you can use
any technology that leverages the vCloud API such as vCloud Automation Center, Cloud Foundry and
vFabric Applications. You can deploy agent-based tools, such as HypericHQ, to report back to the local
data center.
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Web UI and vCloud API: Customers manage and consume hybrid cloud resources through a Web UI
and public APIs. The Web UI and the public APIs provide management of cloud resources including
virtual data center management, configuration of network services, and virtual machine instance
lifecycle management.
The Web UI also provides single sign-on access to vCloud Director. In vCloud Director, administrators
can perform advanced management of virtual data centers, and end users can perform advanced
management of virtual machines.
See Chapter 2, “Navigating Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand,” on page 15 and the vCloud API 5.7
with vCloud Air Extensions Programmer's Guide.
What Can I Do with Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand?
When registering for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, a customer can access the following resources
within a logically-isolated Virtual Private Cloud environment on the VMware multi-tenant infrastructure.
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vCPUs
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vRAM (GB)
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Storage (GB)
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Allocated and burstable network bandwidth
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Public IP addresses allocatable to virtual data centers
Selecting a Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand service for the first time provisions your first virtual data
center (with 2.6vGHz vCPUs), a gateway, and routed network automatically. When you log into
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand the first time, the Web UI provides quick access to creating your first
virtual machine.
Using Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, you can create or import collections of virtual machines into your
environment. You can add virtual data centers to your public cloud and allocate public IP addresses to those
data centers. You can scale resources to your virtual machines on demand.
You pay for compute and memory resources allocated to your virtual machines only after they are powered
on. You pay for only the amount of storage you allocate to your virtual machines. Resources are metered by
the minute, and billed monthlyas fractions of hours, without requiring a long-term contract. See “Data
Collection Explained,” on page 64 for information.
Cost Savings
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Start projects sooner because the usage-based billing for Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand allows for
lower, incremental operating expenses instead of higher, upfront capital expenses.
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Avoid over-purchasing and underutilization of infrastructure resources with depreciating assets in
your private cloud through access to on demand public cloud capacity.
Chapter 1 Introducing Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
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