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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
About this book
The vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases publication provides information about the design and
capabilities of cloud environments based on VMware vCloud
®
Suite.
vCloud Suite is a collection of interoperable VMware products. vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use
Cases provides a listing of components, high-level design guidelines for vCloud Suite deployment and
operation, as well as example use cases.
The provided architecture overview is based on concepts from the practical approach used by the VMware
Professional Services organization.
vCloud Suite Architecture Overview does not include detailed installation and configuration instructions for
individual components. You can find that information in the dedicated documentation sets for individual
VMware products.
Intended Audience
This information is intended for IT professionals and business decision makers with prior knowledge of
virtualization and data center operations, who want to understand the capabilities of vCloud Suite and learn
about recommended deployment models and example use cases.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation, go to
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
VMware, Inc.
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