Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I Private Cloud Foundations -- Chapter 1 What Makes a Private Cloud? -- Understanding the Great Abstraction Layer -- Abstraction and Cloud Computing -- Virtualization and Cloud Computing -- Defining Cloud Computing -- On-Demand Self-Service -- Broad Network Access -- Resource Pooling -- Rapid Elasticity -- Measured Service -- Is Virtualization Cloud Computing? -- Are Traditional Services Cloud Computing? -- Understanding Services and Delivery Models -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -- Platform as a Service (PaaS) -- Software as a Service (SaaS) -- Public Cloud -- Private Cloud -- Hybrid Cloud -- Community Cloud -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Developing Your Strategy -- Developing Your Strategy -- Buy or Build? -- Deciding to Buy -- Service Level Agreement -- Service Credits -- Disaster Recovery -- Cost Structure -- Deciding to Build -- Greenfield or Reengineer? -- Hardware Platform -- Datacenter Facilities -- Virtual or Physical Servers -- Application Stack Considerations -- Design for Failure -- Scale-Out Elasticity -- Framework (PaaS) -- Gathering Requirements -- Documenting Requirements -- Define Use Cases -- Who Are Your Users? -- What Do They Do? -- What Would They Like to Do? -- Executive Sponsorship -- Dealing with "the Directive" -- "The Pitch": Into the Dragon's Den -- Explaining the Current State of Your Organization -- Proposing Your Solution -- Presenting the Numbers -- How Long, Who, and When? -- Case Study -- Cost Breakdown -- Logical Diagrams -- Overcoming Hurdles -- Cloud? Our Auditors Will Go Nuts! -- But Amazon Will Sell Me This for Like 1 a Day -- Life Cycle -- Inception -- Feasibility -- Development -- Emerging Service -- Established Service -- Deprecated Service -- Decommissioned Service -- Building the Right Team -- Product/Portfolio Manager.

Change Manager -- Capacity Manager -- Commercial Manager -- Operations Manager -- Relationship Manager -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Introducing VMware vCloud Director -- Heriarchical Management -- Understanding How vCloud Director Works -- Exploring the Interfaces -- Exploring vCloud Director's Core Components -- Cell Servers -- Database -- vCenter -- vCloud Networking and Security Services -- vCNS Manager -- Chargeback Manager -- Application Programming Interface -- Virtual Datacenter Objects -- Organization -- Provider Virtual Data Center -- Organization Virtual Data Center -- Catalog -- vApp -- vCloud Networking -- vCloud Network Isolation (VCNI) -- Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) -- Network Pools -- vCloud Director Networks -- Summary -- Part II Designing Your Cloud Service -- Chapter 4 Defining the Service Catalog -- From Stability to Dynamic Change -- Understanding the Service Catalog -- Existing Standard Builds -- Sharing Service Catalogs -- The vApp -- Examples of vApp Use Cases -- Self-Contained LAMP Stack -- Production SQL Server -- Test SQL Server -- Isolated Server Sandbox -- Clone of Production Application Stack -- Operating System Templates -- Media Files -- What Is Your Current Environment? -- Active Directory -- Backup/Restore -- IP Addressing -- Management Agents and Firewalling -- Legacy System Dependencies -- Security Considerations -- N-Tier Applications -- End-to-End Automation -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Platform Design for vCloud Director -- Identifying Design Goals -- Provider Design Goals -- Consumer Design Goals -- Layered External Services -- Identifying Design Constraints -- Common Architecture Decisions -- Conceptual Design -- Management Pod -- Resource Pod(s) -- Design for Failure -- Design for Manageability -- Scaling Approaches -- Availability/Performance.

Designing the Management Pod -- vCloud Databases -- vCloud Cell Servers -- Transfer Storage -- SSL Certificates -- vCNS Manager -- Resource Pod Design -- Compute -- Networking -- vCNS Gateway -- Storage -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Building a Cost Model -- Economics of Cloud -- Building a Cost Matrix -- Table of Costs -- Price Breaks -- Step Changes -- Cost vs. Price -- Cost of Operation -- Standardizing Units of Consumption -- Custom Configurations -- Software Licensing for the Cloud -- Service Provider Licensing -- Microsoft SPLA -- VMware Service Provider Program -- Summary -- Part III Building the Cloud -- Chapter 7 Installing VMware vCloud Director -- Obtaining the Media -- Preparing the Management Pod -- DNS Configuration -- vCenter Server -- Deploying vShield Manager -- vCloud Director Database -- Preparing the Cell Servers -- Configuring the Management Pod -- Installing vCloud Director -- Configuring the Transfer Location -- Creating SSL Certificates -- Generating a Self-Signed SSL Certificate -- Using a SSL Certificate Signed by a Public or Internal Authority -- Configuring the First Cell Server -- Configuring the RHEL Firewall for vCloud -- Securing the Configuration Files -- Creating Sysprep Packages -- vCloud Director Setup Wizard -- Installing Additional Cell Servers -- Summary -- Chapter 8 Delivering Services -- Laying the Foundation: Building the Resource Pod -- Building an Example Resource Pod -- Associating vCNS Manager with Your Resource Pod -- Licensing vCloud Networking and Security -- Configuring LDAP Authentication -- Setting the SMTP Server -- Attaching a vCenter Server to Your Resource Pod -- Creating PvDCs -- Creating an External Network -- Creating a Network Pool -- Creating an Organization -- Creating an Organization Virtual Datacenter -- Configuring the Resource Model -- Allocating Storage.

Allocating Networks -- Connecting an Org vDC to the External Network -- Creating a vCNS Edge Gateway -- Creating an Initial Service Catalog -- Creating a Public Catalog -- Uploading Media to vCloud Director -- Exporting a VM from vCenter for Use with vCloud Director in OVF Format -- Handing Over Access to Your Consumers -- Summary -- Chapter 9 Consuming Services -- Example Configuration for This Chapter -- Creating Your First vApp as a Consumer -- Creating an Organization Catalog -- Creating a Simple vApp from a Shared Catalog -- Customizing a vApp -- Uploading Your vApp to a Catalog -- Deploying a vApp from a Template -- Deploying a vApp on a vApp Network -- Deploying a vApp with IP Load Balancing -- Summary -- Chapter 10 Integrating Automation -- Working with vCloud APIs -- Introducing VMware vSphere PowerCLI -- Microsoft PowerShell Overview -- Getting Started with PowerCLI -- PowerCLI and vCloud Director Cmdlets -- PowerCLI and Combining vCloud Director and vSphere Cmdlets -- PowerCLI Tools -- Using VMware vCenter Orchestrator -- Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator -- Plug-in Overview and Selection Considerations -- Administration of vCenter Orchestrator -- Locating, Installing, and Configuring Plug-ins -- Automating vCloud Director with vCenter Orchestrator -- vCenter Orchestrator Policies -- Working with RabbitMQ -- Getting Started with RabbitMQ -- Preparing RabbitMQ for Use with vCloud Director -- Configuring vCloud Director Notifications -- Integrating vCenter Orchestrator with RabbitMQ -- Summary -- Part IV Operating the Cloud -- Chapter 11 Managing Your Cloud -- How Managing vCloud Differs from Managing vSphere -- Management Pod -- Resource Pod -- Org vDCs -- Understanding Change Management -- Capacity Planning -- Team Structure -- Monitoring Performance and Availability -- Using Malware Protection.

Balancing Capacity and Demand -- Adding More ESX Hosts to a PvDC -- Removing ESX Hosts from a PvDC -- Adding Datastores -- Adding Additional vCenter Servers -- Troubleshooting vCloud Director -- Summary -- Chapter 12 Business Continuity -- Backing Up Consumer Workloads -- The New Challenge -- Assessing Current Backup Options -- Agent-Based Backups -- Agent-Based Backups and Backup Networks -- VADP-Derived Backups -- Other Backups -- Understanding Disaster Recovery Strategies -- VMware vSphere Disaster Recovery -- vCloud Director Challenges -- vCloud Director Integration with vSphere -- VMware Site Recovery Manager -- Current Options -- VMware Site Recovery Manager -- Custom-Built Solutions -- High-Availability Metro Clusters -- Non-VMware Solutions -- Summary -- Index.