Friday, October 11, 2013

IAAS - Objective 1.1

Objective 1.1- Install vCloud components
Identify required vCloud components and pre-requisites for installation


This post by Frank Denneman hits the nail on the head and includes a very helpful diagram.
To run a VMware vCloud environment, the minimum components to run are:
• VMware vCloud Director (vCD)
• VMware vShield Manager
• VMware Chargeback
• VMware vCenter (supporting the Resource groups)
• vSphere infrastructure
• Supporting infrastructure elements (Networking, SAN)

And these might be worth printing
http://www.hypervizor.com/diags/Hypervizor-com-VMware-vCloud-Suite-Architecture-Diagram-v1.pdf
http://www.hypervizor.com/diags/Designing-your-Private-Cloud-With-vCloud-Director.pdf

Trainsignal has a free video "Everything you need to know about installing vCloud Director 5.1"

KB Article 1026339 'VMware vCloud Director components' sounds like it would cover this objective, but it doesn't really because it's more of a description of the parts of the cloud after it has been installed. It's based on vCD 1.5, but I'm including it anyways because in general you still need to know these things.