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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
Table 4‑4. vCloud Suite Components Required for the Infrastructure Service
vCloud Suite component Description
ESXi VMware bare-metal hypervisor that lets you run a
virtualized environment.
vCenter Server Provides management capabilities in a browser-based
interface, and integration points for other vCloud Suite
components.
vCenter Orchestrator Enables you to create workflows that automate activities in
the data center.
vCloud Automation Center Provides a secure portal where authorized administrators,
developers, or business users can request new IT services.
vCloud Director vCloud Director lets you provision services as virtual data
centers with virtualized compute, networking, storage, and
security.
vCloud Networking and Security Enables consumption of networks that
vCloud Networking and Security Manager manages.
Prerequisites
Verify that the following conditions are met.
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You have the required components in your environment.
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You have a configured vSphere instance to serve as an vCloud Automation Center endpoint.
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You have set a reservation policy.
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You have created blueprints based on vSphere snapshots.
Procedure
1 Request a Virtual Machine Workload on page 60
A new instance of a virtual machine that runs an inventory management application is required at
ACME Corp. As an administrator for the tenant group that is responsible for inventory management,
you can use the vCloud Suite Infrastructure as a Service capability to deploy and manage the
workload.
2 Provision the Workload on page 61
After you request the workload, you can provision the workload when you receive an approval.
3 Customize the Virtual Machine on page 61
You requested and provisioned the virtual machine. You can customize the virtual machine to
increase or decrease the amount of memory, the number of CPUs, and so on.
4 Manage Workload Snapshots on page 62
You deployed and configured the workload. You can create snapshots of your running workloads
from the self-service portal.
5 Retire the Virtual Machine on page 62
The final stage in the lifecycle of a workload is the retirement operation. Alternatively, the tenant
administrator can send a reclamation request to the owners of machines.
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