5.8
Table Of Contents
- vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases
- Contents
- About this book
- Introduction to vCloud Suite
- Architecture Overview
- Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
- vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster
- Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure
- Delivering an Infrastructure Service
- Delivering Platform as a Service
- Deploying vCloud Suite
- Install vCloud Suite Components
- Update vCloud Suite Components
- External Dependencies for Deploying vCloud Suite
- System Requirements of vCloud Suite Components
- Security Considerations
- Licensing
- vCloud Suite Licensing Model
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Client
- Add the vCloud Suite License by Using the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vSphere in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCenter Operations Management Suite in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCloud Networking and Security in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License Key to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Activating vCloud Suite Components by Using Their Own Licensing Interfaces
- Monitoring License Usage for vCloud Suite
- vCloud Suite Use Cases
- Index
Table 2‑2. Components of vCloud Suite orchestration (Continued)
Component Description
vCenter Orchestrator configuration interface The Web-based interface where you configure the
appliance database, SSL certificate, license, and so on.
vCenter Orchestrator designer interface The Web-based interface where your create and customize
workflows.
vCenter Server plug-in An Orchestrator plug-in that lets you manage multiple
vCenter Server instances. The vCenter Server plug-in
provides a library of standard workflows that automate
vCenter Server operations.
Multi Node plug-in An Orchestrator plug-in that provides remote vCO
management and remote workflow execution.
Delivering an Infrastructure Service
The ability to deliver infrastructure as a service represents the technological and organizational
transformation from traditional data center operations to cloud. The infrastructure service lets you model
and provision VMs and services across private, public, or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
In the software-defined data center, provider groups or organizations can isolate and abstract resources in
the form of infrastructure and application services, and make them available to tenant groups or
organizations.
The Infrastructure Service layer delivers a self-service user portal that lowers administrative overhead
through the use of policies to provision infrastructure services. Policies allow administrators to control the
consumption of services in a granular and flexible fashion. The portal also provides robust approval
capabilities.
The core of the IaaS layer is the vCloud Automation Center virtual appliance that you must deploy on an
ESXi host and configure.
You can build the infrastructure service core by using the following components:
Table 2‑3. Infrastructure service components
Infrastructure service section Design components
vCloud Automation Center virtual appliance
n
vCloud Automation Center Portal Web/App server
n
vCloud Automation Center vPostgreSQL database
vCloud Automation Center IaaS
n
vCloud Automation Center IaaS Web server
n
vCloud Automation Center IaaS Manager services
Distributed execution vCloud Automation Center distributed execution
managers:
n
Orchestrator
n
Workers
Integration vCloud Automation Center Agent machines
Cost management IT Business Management
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