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
Introducing
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand 1
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform that allows customers to
consume specific compute, storage, and networking resources as incremental pay-as-you-go services.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“What Is Hybrid Cloud Computing?,” on page 7
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“About Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand,” on page 9
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“What Can I Do with Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand?,” on page 11
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“Comparison Between Offerings from vCloud Air,” on page 12
What Is Hybrid Cloud Computing?
In a hybrid cloud computing environment, an organization provides and manages in-house resources and
accesses resources in a public cloud. One or several touch points exist between the private cloud and public
cloud environments. The services and data from both clouds combine to create a unified and well-managed
computing environment.
Figure 1-1 shows how customers can utilize hybrid cloud computing using
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand.
Figure 1‑1. Components of a Hybrid Cloud
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Management
In their private clouds, customers manage their business workloads using virtualized, pooled compute
resources. Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand, managed by VMware, exists in the public cloud and exposes
infrastructure capabilities through a Web UI and publically available APIs. Together, customers’ on-
premises private clouds and the VMware public cloud provide hybrid cloud functionality—the ability to
extend private cloud resources to the public cloud. In a hybrid cloud environment, computing resources and
business processes are designed to connect customers’ private clouds and the public cloud as though they
are a single environment for each customer.
VMware, Inc.
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