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 1‑1. Components of vCloud Suite 5.8 and their versions (Continued)
Product name Version Description
vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.3 Provides a security suite for vSphere.
vCloud Networking and Security
(formerly vShield) is a critical security
component for protecting virtualized
datacenters from attacks and misuse to
help you achieve your compliance-
mandated goals.
vCloud Director 5.5.2 Provides the ability to build secure,
multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual
infrastructure resources into virtual
datacenters.
vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Provides functionality for deploying
and provisioning of business-relevant
cloud services across private and
public clouds, physical infrastructure,
hypervisors, and public cloud
providers.
vCloud Automation Center Enterprise
includes
vCloud Automation Center
Application Service.
vCloud Automation Center
Application Service
6.1 Provides automated application
provisioning in the cloud including
deploying and configuring the
application's components and
dependent middleware platform
services on infrastructure clouds.
vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.3 Provides comprehensive visibility and
insights into the performance, capacity
and health of your infrastructure.
vCenter Configuration Manager 5.7.2 Provides automation of configuration
and compliance management across
your virtual, physical and cloud
environments, assessing them for
operational and security compliance.
vCenter Hyperic 5.8.2 Provides monitoring of operating
systems, middleware and applications
running in physical, virtual, and cloud
environments.
vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 5.8.2 Provides automated discovery of
application services, visualizes
relationships, and maps dependencies
of applications on virtualized
compute, storage and network
resources.
vSphere Replication 5.8 Provides replication, at the individual
virtual machine disk level, between
datastores hosted on any storage.
vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.8 Provides disaster recovery capability
that lets you perform automated
orchestration and nondisruptive
testing for virtualized applications.
vSphere Data Protection 5.8 Provides advanced data protection
with backup and recovery to disk via
VMware vSphere with Operations
Management Data Protection features.
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