Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider Part 2 (a customer How-To)
In the first part of this article I showed you how to get a vApp provisioned with two virtual machines. However we did not load the operating systems in them…
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Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider (a customer How-To)
The goal of this post is to convey just how easy it is to work with virtual machines in a public cloud that is using VMware vCloud Director software. This…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 5: vCD Installation
Now that we have our hardware all in place, vSphere 5 Installed, our database configured and running, and vShield deployed we are ready to build our vCloud Director virtual machine,…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 4: vCD Database Prep
One part that I forgot to mention that is in the vCloud Installation Guide is preparing your database server for use with vCloud Director. This isn’t a difficult process if…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 3: vSphere 5 and vShield
This is part 3 of the multipart series on how I am building a public vCloud lab, this post will explain vSphere 5.0 setup on each of the host machines…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 2: Oracle DB Server
(Note: Now that vCD 1.5 has been released this step can be avoided and instead you can use MS SQL 2008 R2 Express if you prefer MS SQL, the only…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 1: The Concept
This is going to be the first post in a series on how I am building and testing my vCloud. I will be using vSphere 5 and will opt for…