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Setting Up Application
Provisioning for the
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To use Application Services to deploy applications in a vCloud Director environment, you must install
vCloud Director 5.1.2 or 5.5.
To set up application provisioning you must create a vCloud Director organization with one or more user
accounts and an organization vDC to allow Application Services to create cloud providers and register
them to the organization vDC. See Set Up vCloud Director for Application Services. You must also create
custom virtual machine templates in vCloud Director.
In Application Services, you must register a cloud provider and template. Registering a cloud provider
involves specifying a vCloud Director organization. When you register a cloud template, you map a
vCloud Director vApp template to a logical template in the Application Services library. You must then
create a deployment environment and map this deployment environment to a contained vCloud Director
organization vDC.
Familiarize yourself with the key concepts that relate to setting up and configuring a cloud environment for
application provisioning. See Key Concepts.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating vCloud Director Custom Templates
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Creating Windows Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
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Create Linux Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
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Verify Cloud Template Configuration from the vCloud Director Catalog
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Updating Existing Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
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Exporting Virtual Machine Templates with OVF Format
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Register the vCloud Director Cloud Provider and Template
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Create a vCloud Director Deployment Environment
Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating
vCloud Director Custom Templates
In Application Services, you map logical templates to cloud templates created in vCloud Director. These
cloud templates must meet certain requirements to work properly in Application Services.
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