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
Figure 4‑2. Workload Provisioning Workflow
Start
Request VM from blueprint
Approval and provisioning to
vSphere
Manage and customize VM
Retire VM
End
Manage workload snapshots
Table 4‑3. Environment Details
vCloud Suite component Description
vSphere endpoint vCloud Automation Center can deploy workloads to a
vSphere environment that administrators configured for
use in ACME Corp. A fabric group and a network
reservation are configured for the vSphere environment.
You can configure other types of endpoints, for example
vCloud Air or AWS.
vSphere blueprint The Inventory Manager blueprint exists in your catalog. The
virtual machine runs an application that is used in ACME
Corp. The prefix that is configured for the workload is
InventoryMgr-.
Configured service with a catalog A service exists with the name Development Infrastructure.
A functional IaaS environment is based on several components.
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