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What’s New in vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center

Joe Desmond, VMware Certified Instructor

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Vmware vCloud Director

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vCD 5.5 Introduction

• vCloud Director is a key component of the vCloud Suite providing a self service portal and catalog that enables policy-based infrastructure and application provisioning and automated operation management.

• What’s New?

• Catalog Enhancements

• vApp Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management

• Deploy vApps Directly to and from the VDC

• OVA File Format Support

• vCloud Director Cell Supported on CentOS

• Chrome Web Browser and Mac OS Virtual Machine Console Support

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Catalog Enhancements – Limit Access to Shared Catalogs

• Previous vCloud Director versions supported both nonshared and shared

catalogs.

• Shared catalogs were available to all organizations

• No way to limit access

• Potential impact to multi-tenancy security

• vCloud Director 5.5 allows administrators to restrict access to shared catalogs.

• Sharing tab added to the Catalog Properties dialog screen

• Ability to add Members or Organization to approved sharing list

• Improves security through restriction of access to shared catalog

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Catalog Enhancements – Limit Access to Shared Catalogs (cont.)

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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Publish and Subscribe

•Catalogs now available for publishing outside of the vCloud

Director instance

• Available via URL created when Catalog is shared

• Provide URL to other vCloud administrators to allow for

subscription to Catalog

• Publishing administrator retains control of access to

Catalog

• Password protection can be implemented

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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Publish and Subscribe (Cont.)

• Subscribed Catalogs are copied to subscribers side

• Read-only

• Updates are synchronized

• Done via HTTPS using VMware Content Subscription Protocol (VCSP)

• Catalogs are pre-exported to a spooling area when published

• Support for 3rd party replication tools supported for synchronization

• Catalogs can be automatically or on-demand synchronized

• Full synchronization or metadata only download

• Metadata only download allows on-demand access to content at the end

of the catalog without having to wait for full download to finish.

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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Publish and Subscribe (Cont.)

• Automated and secure method of sharing content

• Eliminates need to maintain identical vApp templates and media files at

multiple locations

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Catalog Enhancements – Catalog Versioning

• Versioning information is now stored for Catalog Items

• Version Column added to the Catalog Screen

• Eliminates need to using unique names for version identification

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Catalog Enhancements – Support for Uploading Any Content Type

• Allows any file type to be uploaded to the Catalog

• Vmware vFabric Application Director blueprints

• ISOs

• .ovf files

• Floppy Images

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vApp Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management – Customize Hardware Settings

• Administrators can customize CPU, Memory, and hard-disk settings

• Assists when multiple vApps needed to test different scenarios

• Eliminates need for multiple vApps

• Reduces storage consumption

• Reduces need to maintain multiple vApp templates

• Patch updates

• vApp template is not modified when a change is made to vApp deployed

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vApp Provisioning and Life-Cycle Management – Support for Hot Add and Hot Remove of Hard Disks and NICs

• vCloud Director 5.1 supported dynamic add, extend, and removal of hard disks from running virtual machines

• vCloud Director 5.5 adds support for hot-add/removal of NICs

• Dynamically connect and disconnect NICs from VM

• The primary NIC cannot be modified

• Settings

• Removal