VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide ® T e c h n i c a l W HI T E P A P E R v / U p d at e d N o v e m b e r 1 ™ vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Table of Contents Getting Started About This Guide Intended Audience Evaluation Help and Support The Journey to Private Cloud Understanding the VMware vCloud Solution vCloud Director Physical Components vCloud Director vCloud Director database vCenter Server VMware ESXi™ hosts VMware® vShield Manager™ vCloud Director Logical Components Provider Virtual Datacenter Organizations Organization Virtual Datacenter vApps vApp Catalog Typical vCloud Director Deployment 10 Management Cluster 10 Resource Cluster 11 Evaluation Lab Configuration Details 12 Architecture Overview 12 Compute Hardware Requirements 13 Network Requirements 14 Storage Requirements 15 Software and Licensing Requirements 15 Software Configuration 16 Evaluation Procedures 17 Evaluation Scenario 17 Infrastructure Installation 17 Installing vCenter Server 18 Configuring vCenter Server 26 Deploying VMware vShield Manager 30 Installing and Configuring Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express 37 T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Deploying the vCloud Director Appliance 46 Installing the vCloud Director Binaries 50 Generating SSL Certificates 51 vCloud Director Configuration 53 vCloud Director Initial Setup 56 Attaching to Virtual Center 59 Defining the Provider Virtual Datacenter 61 Creating a Provider vDC 61 Defining an External Network 64 Network Pools 66 Organization Creation 69 Creating an Organization 69 Allocating Resources to an Organization 74 Creating an Organization Network 79 Creating Another Organization 83 Creating a New Organization 83 Allocating Resources to an Organization 84 Creating an Organization Network 84 Enabling DHCP for an Organization Network 85 Accessing an Organization .86 Developing Service Offerings 87 Creating a Catalog 87 Importing Media 89 Building a vApp 91 Creating a vApp Template 97 Deploying a vApp from a Template 99 Customizing a Virtual Machine 102 Cloud Security and Management 105 Site-to-Site VPN 105 Firewall Configuration 110 Blocking Tasks 113 Conclusion 118 VMware Contact Information 118 Feedback 118 T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Getting Started About This Guide VMware vCloud® Director™ (VCD) enables customers to build a private cloud–based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering within their organization By providing a secure, on-demand ability for end users to deploy workloads, companies can realize a level of agility previously thought impossible This VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide is designed to provide a guided, hands-on evaluation of the most compelling and relevant features of vCloud Director It walks users through a series of procedures, each building upon the previous When completed, the evaluator will have a working configuration that illustrates the key concepts that should be understood before deploying a production private cloud solution with vCloud Director Because this guide is to be leveraged for evaluation purposes, it has been written to require the least amount of hardware resources possible This enables users who not have a dedicated test lab to still fully evaluate the capabilities and concepts of vCloud Director This purpose-built evaluation environment should not be considered as a template for deploying a production environment Intended Audience This guide is intended for IT professionals familiar with VMware vSphere® who are new to vCloud Director It is expected that the reader is comfortable with common computing and networking topics Evaluation Help and Support This guide is not meant to substitute for product documentation For detailed information regarding installation, configuration, administration and usage of VMware® products, refer to the online documentation You can also consult the online VMware knowledge base if you have any additional questions If you require further assistance, contact a VMware sales representative or channel partner The following are some links to online resource, documentation and self-help tools: VMware vSphere® and VMware vCenter Server™ resources: Product overview: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html Product documentation: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html White papers and other resources: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/mid-size-and-enterprise-business/resources.html VMware vCloud Director resources: Product overview: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/overview.html Product documentation: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html White papers and other resources: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/resources.html T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide The Journey to Private Cloud Cloud-based infrastructure environments are a frequent topic of discussion within IT organizations today This interest stems from several sources Customers who have broadly adopted virtualization are looking for ways to further increase their agility Others are interested in achieving a significant reduction in operating costs by deploying a cloud solution Still others have heard about cloud infrastructure technologies and are trying to understand what benefits it can bring to their organization The journey that companies have taken with virtualization started with the need to virtualize applications to reduce server sprawl Initially, companies looked at applications of low importance to virtualize, such as those in a preproduction environment As time passed, companies took the next step in the virtualization journey by virtualizing more critical applications in their production environments Significant reductions in personnel and hardware costs along with increased utilization of the computing resources were soon realized This led many companies to adopt a “virtualization first” policy, where new applications are considered for deployment in a virtualized environment before a physical one With the adoption of virtualization well underway, companies are now looking forward to the next step in their virtualization journey This step is the deployment of a private cloud According to a survey of more than 2,000 CIOs taken by Gartner Executive Programs in January 2011,1 cloud computing ranked #1 in their technology priorities It can be inferred that the reason for this is that CIOs are now trying to evolve their current environments into a highly agile infrastructure to improve enterprise efficiency, cost expenditures and the process of implementing or updating business applications What does it mean to be agile? Agility simply means being able to respond to the needs of the business faster This entails the ability to quickly respond to requirements for environments that routinely change It also means enabling environments commonly viewed as static to rapidly adapt to business needs This is the main purpose of a private cloud–based infrastructure: to enable agility in the delivery of IT services Does being virtualized equate to the benefits provided by a private cloud? Unfortunately, it does not Examining a large number of virtualized datacenters enables one to observe the following two distinct characteristics: • A high degree of shared infrastructure Companies have architected their virtualized environments with storage and network connectivity across large numbers of servers This enables them to take maximum advantage of the features in vSphere, such as VMware vSphere® vMotion®, vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA), and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) • The processes to bring new applications and workloads online in a virtualized environment mimic the same processes used in physical environments IT agility is about aligning demand (what users need in order to the best possible job) with supply (what resources IT can offer) Ideally, a company evolves to provide services as a supply that will meet the demands of users at any given point in time The risk of not making this evolution is that the demand will find another source of supply IT organizations that see short-duration, high-demand workloads leak to external providers are experiencing the issues faced when their supply of resources is unable to meet the demand of users Users who go “outside IT” not so maliciously Rather, they are just trying to meet their deadlines and are unwilling or unable to wait for the IT provisioning process to occur In doing so, however, they are exposing the company to unintentional risks The easiest way to prevent this is to provide a sufficient supply of IT resources to meet the demands of the users who want to consume them This supply can be delivered within a secure environment, shielded from risk This is the premise of a private cloud A private cloud creates a way for companies to automate the matching of user demand with the available supply in a secure manner In doing so, companies can realize the benefits of IaaS, where end users are able to have resources allocated on demand in a self-service model Gartner Executive Programs Worldwide Survey of More Than 2,000 CIOs Identifies Cloud Computing as Top Technology Priority for CIOs in 2011 – 21 January 2011 – http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1526414 T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide An interesting by-product of allowing self-service is the change in behavior regarding the quantity of resources requested by end users When end users must go through a lengthy or difficult process to request servers and applications, they tend to overrequest and are not willing to relinquish what they have obtained When allowed to quickly and with minimum effort get what they need, end users are more likely to make more realistic resource requests and return the resources when finished How does one get to this point? As the start of the journey into virtualization began with specific workloads, so too does the journey into the cloud First, identify workloads that have a low management or governance need and that are required frequently A good source for these types of workloads can be found in testing and development or preproduction environments For example, in a typical development organization, multiple developers often require similar environments for short periods of time Although these development environments are typically hosted on a virtualized infrastructure, they still are high effort because they tend to require refreshes as new product releases are made This continual need to create environments for the developers and to manage them once created can place a large burden on the IT staff of an organization By shifting to a self-service model for these workloads, an IT organization can save significant amounts of time while using this experience to hone their capabilities around delivering IT as a service Although the first step in the journey to the cloud might start with low-governance workloads, such workloads are not the end of the journey As you continue down the path, you will quickly realize that the use of a private cloud solution can meet the needs of many applications and will give you new ways of looking at how applications and services are used and provided As an example, consider a typical ERP system These systems tend to have long development cycles with fairly minimal changes A private cloud will certainly help in the development effort by provisioning resources on demand Because this can be done so quickly, it enables end users to also perform actions that were considered difficult before They can quickly test new applications or deploy new analytic packages If successful, they can examine the feasibility of incorporating them into the ERP solution If not, it’s a simple matter to destroy the environment and provision a new one, clean of any trace of the new software The agility provided by a private cloud is not just about how quickly one can deploy something It is also about how quickly one can test something and tear it down if it fails Not trying something simply because it would cost too much in time and personnel resources is not a viable excuse anymore The journey into private cloud mimics the journey into virtualization in another critical way As companies moved from virtualizing low-impact applications to more business-critical applications, the capabilities that virtualization provided changed the way they deployed and managed applications The zero-downtime migration capabilities of vMotion and failure handling of vSphere HA meant clustering between multiple running systems no longer made sense The shift to a more agile infrastructure will drive similar changes Business applications that might be considered as having a low frequency of change might very well be reexamined in the light of the capabilities of a private cloud Applications will remain mission critical, but the concept of making routine changes to better support the business will become far less daunting T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Understanding the VMware vCloud Solution The VMware vCloud® solution is a suite of products designed to enable an IT organization to build a private cloud on top of a vSphere environment The product suite consists of vCloud Director 1.5, VMware vShield Edge™ 5.0, and VMware vCenter Chargeback™ 1.6.2 A VMware vCloud API is also provided as a programmatic interface to this solution suite VMware vCloud Director 1.5 provides the automation and user portal capabilities needed to enable selfprovisioning and management of workloads across one or more vSphere environments This enables businesses to migrate gradually to cloud computing while continuing to leverage existing vSphere investments VMware vShield Edge 5.0 (included with vCloud Director) provides firewall, VPN, routing, and NAT services for the private cloud vShield Edge facilitates secure isolation of workloads running in the private cloud from each other as well as from external networks VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.6.2 is an optional add-on for a vCloud environment that provides accurate cost measurement and reporting on virtual machine usage When it is used as a part of a self-service private cloud environment, business owners can now have complete transparency into, and accountability for, the services they are consuming The VMware vCloud API ensures compatibility between public and private clouds—it’s the same API published by both private and public clouds By using the vCloud API, moving from a purely public or purely private cloud to a hybrid cloud is significantly simplified With this portfolio of cloud-aware products, VMware amplifies value with cloud computing by reducing IT costs, increasing business agility and preserving IT governance This VMware solution ensures flexibility and interoperability for your cloud As your enterprise moves through the journey to a cloud-based infrastructure, you can amplify the benefits of virtualization and move selected workloads within your datacenter cloud or to one of the many vCloud-enabled public clouds in the VMware partner ecosystem This solution also helps your organization achieve a cloud model that is uniquely yours—a private, public or hybrid environment precisely aligned with your individual business goals When enterprises are able to deploy workloads in the best environment for their business needs, they increase agility without compromising security, reliability or governance vCloud Director Physical Components A vCloud Director deployment consists of a number of physical components These include the following: vCloud Director A single instance of vCloud Director is known as a “cell.” A cell consists of the vCloud Director components installed on a supported system In larger implementations, multiple cells can be deployed with a front-end IP load balancer to direct end-user traffic to the correct cell vCloud Director database vCloud Director stores information about managed objects, users and other metadata in a database The current release of vCloud Director supports Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server for database platforms In most environments, the vCloud Director and database components are installed on separate virtual machines for proper load handling In cases where multiple vCloud Director cells are deployed, all cells communicate with the same database Because the database is a critical component of vCloud Director, it is very important that the database be highly available T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide vCenter Server Each vCloud Director cell can connect to one or more vCenter Server instances to access resources for running workloads Each attached vCenter Server instance provides resources, such as CPU and memory, which can be leveraged by vCloud Director VMware ESXi™ hosts VMware ESXi hosts provide the compute power for vCloud Director ESXi hosts are placed in groups of resources, such as clusters or resource pools These groups and their associated storage are then made available to vCloud Director VMware® vShield Manager™ VMware vShield Manager provides a central point of control for managing, deploying, reporting, logging and integrating vShield as well as third-party security services Working in conjunction with vCenter Server, VMware vShield Manager enables role-based access control and separation of duties as part of a unified framework for managing virtualization security To support the automated management of VMware vShield Edge in a vCloud Director environment, an instance of VMware vShield Manager is required for each vCenter Server attached to vCloud Director vCloud Director Logical Components Server virtualization abstracted away the concept of the physical server This removed the complexity of specific storage or network interfaces and replaced them with a generalized, abstracted hardware layer that was presented to one or more virtual machines VMware vCloud solutions take this abstraction to a new level and create a virtual datacenter Rather than individually selecting a target vSphere host or cluster, datastore and network port group, users deploy workloads into preallocated containers of compute, storage and networking resources known as virtual datacenters (vDCs) This dramatically simplifies the provisioning process and removes many of the manual configuration steps To the consumer, these are seemingly infinite and elastic pools of resource that can be expanded quickly and easily In creating these virtual datacenters, corporate IT has the option to produce multiple service-level offerings to optimize the use of compute and storage resources For example, all development users can be placed into a vDC containing resources with performance characteristics lower than those used in a production environment Meanwhile, UAT/QA users can operate in a vDC with resource performance characteristics much closer to production specifications vCloud Director introduces a number of logical components to support the notion of a vDC that is presented to end users The main logical components consist of the following elements: Provider Virtual Datacenter A provider virtual datacenter is a logical grouping of vSphere compute and storage resources The provider virtual datacenter (provider vDC) groups together a set of ESXi hosts and a set of one or more associated datastores This logical grouping is then made available for consumption by organizations Within a provider vDC, compute and storage resources are all considered equal By this we mean that these resources are considered of equal performance and cost If an administration team wants to offer groupings of compute and storage resources of different costs or performance, multiple provider vDCs can be created For example, a group of the most capable ESXi hosts combined with high-performance Fibre Channel (FC) storage might be combined to create a gold-level provider vDC Another group of less capable ESXi hosts and slower storage might be grouped together as a silver-level provider vDC In this way, different classes of resources can be offered to different consumer organizations T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Organizations One of the key capabilities of a vCloud Director private cloud is secure multitenancy The organization concept is one of the key building blocks of this A VCD organization is a unit of administration that represents a collection of users and user groups An organization also serves as a security boundary, because users from a particular organization have visibility only to other users and resources allocated to that organization Organizations can be as simple as different functional areas inside a business or as complex as unique companies being hosted by a provider Organization Virtual Datacenter An organization virtual datacenter (organization vDC) is a logical grouping of resources from one or more provider vDCs that an organization is allowed to access Depending on back-end (provider vDC) configuration and needs of the organization, one or more sets of resources backed by different provider vDCs might be present This enables different performance, SLA or cost options to be available to organization users when deploying a workload vApps A vApp is an abstraction that encapsulates all of the virtual machine and internetworking needs of an application vApps can be as simple as a single virtual machine or as complex as a multitier business application Templates can be created from a vApp to enable a vApp to be easily redeployed multiple times by an organization’s users These vApp templates can be shared between other users in the organization or between organizations For example, a typical enterprise application might consist of virtual machines hosting a database server, various application servers and several Web servers These virtual machines will be networked together to facilitate communication between the application components A vApp encapsulates all of this into a single object After it is produced, a template can be created of this vApp to facilitate the deployment of other application instances in a standardized manner An end user who wants to deploy another instance of this application simply deploys another vApp from this template vApp Catalog Organizations use catalogs to store vApp templates and media files The members of an organization who have access to a catalog can use the catalog’s vApp templates and media files to create their own vApps A system administrator can allow an organization to publish a catalog to make it available to other organizations Organization administrators can then choose which catalog items to provide to their users Organization Organization m Users IT VMware vCloud Director User Portals Catalogs VMware vCenter Chargeback Virtual Appliance Virtual Datacenter (Gold) Security VMware vCloud API VM VMware vShield Virtual Datacenter n (Silver) VMware vCenter Server VMware vCenter Server VMware vSphere Public Clouds VMware vCenter Server VMware vSphere Programmatic Control and Integrations VMware vSphere Secure Private Cloud T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Typical vCloud Director Deployment The size and scale of vCloud Director deployments vary greatly There are, however, several architectural features that are common across most deployments Management Cluster In most implementations, all of the infrastructure components needed for vCloud Director are deployed in a management cluster The management cluster consists of two or more ESXi hosts, enabling high availability and downtime avoidance Running within the management cluster will be virtual machines hosting vCloud Director, the vCloud Director database and one or more vCenter Server instances that are attached to vCloud Director and manage a number of ESXi hosts There often will also be a single vCenter Server instance inside the management cluster, configured to manage the management cluster In the following diagram, a simple management cluster with two ESXi hosts is shown Within this management cluster, virtual machines are configured for vCloud Director, vCloud Director database and two vCenter Server instances One of the vCenter Server instances provides services for the management cluster by managing the two ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them The other vCenter Server instance is attached to VCD and manages a set of hosts that provide the resources to be consumed by VCD vCenter Server (for Management Cluster) Management Cluster VM VCD Database vCenter Server (for VCD) vCloud Director VM VM VM ESXi ESXi Datastores (for Management Cluster) T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide You can then see that the guest OS was customized with the name of the virtual machine you specified for the vApp It also has an IP address that was assigned from the static IP pool from the QA Ext Routed Network as we specified earlier A test of the external connectivity should also show that you have external access By now you have been exposed to the basics of building a catalog of services that can be consumed by members of your private cloud You’ve created a vApp, made vApp templates, populated a catalog with media and learned how to customize a vApp Cloud Security and Management In this section, you will be exposed to some of the security features included with vCloud Director as well as some of the features that can assist you in managing the environment Site-to-Site VPN One of the new features in vCloud Director 1.5 is the ability to establish a site-to-site VPN You can enable a siteto-site VPN for an organization network and then create a secure tunnel to another network This site-to-site VPN can connect organization networks in the same organization, organization networks in different organizations (including organization networks in different instances of vCloud Director) and remote networks This is especially useful when configuring hybrid cloud configurations This functionally enables organizations to establish a secure communications path themselves without the need to involve a third entity (such as a service provider) This helps to streamline the process and further enable the users in an organization In the scenario for this guide, we mentioned that the QA and development organizations were situated in different physical locations Using this as a premise, we will now create a site-to-site VPN tunnel between the two organizations VPN connections can be made only with routed networks Select QA Ext Routed Network and right-click to bring up the context menu Select Configure Services… T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Under the Site-to-Site VPN tab, check Enable site-to-site VPN Then click Add… to add a new network tunnel On the window that is displayed, enter the name for the VPN tunnel We will create a tunnel that connects the QA and development organizations in this example Again, we are doing this purely for evaluation In a production environment, the organizations would exist under different provider vDCs To so, select Tunnel to: a network in another organization T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide To add the tunnel, you must click Connect to another organization and specify the URL for the vCloud Director that manages the organization you are connecting to In this case, we are connecting to the Dev organization The vCloud Director instance is the same as the one used by the QA organization You also must specify the name of the organization (Dev) and the username and password for a user who has administrative access in that organization Use the username for the dev_mgr user that you created earlier and click Connect Leave the rest of the settings at the default settings and click OK to add the VPN connection T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide You’ll notice that the VPN tunnel is now shown under the Site-to-Site VPN tab Status will show as Connecting for at least minutes In our case, it will continue to stay in the connecting state because we have not enabled the development organization’s VPN ability To this, go to the development organization, select Dev Ext Routed Network and then select Configure Services… T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Under the Site-to-Site VPN tab, you will see that the tunnel has been configured but the VPN service is not enabled This will prevent the VPN tunnel from becoming active Check Enable site-to-site VPN T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide After approximately minutes, you will see the Status of the VPN connection change to a green check mark that denotes the VPN tunnel is active Firewall Configuration To test the VPN connection, we must change the firewall settings With vCloud Director 1.5, a 5-tuple firewall is enabled automatically to protect your routed external organization networks To verify the need to change the firewall settings, you can access a terminal session from the virtual machine in the vApp created in the QA environment Before we modify the firewall, you can notice that we can ping the peer gateway (the VMware vShield Edge) of the VPN connection we just created, but we cannot ping the virtual machines in the development organization T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Access the Services screen for the Dev Ext Routed Network and select the Firewall tab You’ll notice that the firewall is currently configured to allow only outgoing traffic By clicking Add, we will add a new firewall rule to allow ICMP packets, enabling us to test the VPN functionality On this screen, you can select many different options for the firewall rule that you are about to create Notice that you can use the firewall to filter traffic based on the source IP, the source port, the destination IP, the destination port and the protocol For our purposes here, configure the settings to allow ICMP packets from any host to any host on any port and click OK T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide The new firewall rule is now in place Follow the same process to add a firewall rule on the QA Ext Routed Network, so we can ping from both directions Now you should be able to go to the virtual machine in either the development or QA organization and ping the system in the other organization through the established VPN tunnel T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide If you perform a continuous ping and then disable the VPN functionality from one of the organizations, you can also verify that the traffic is going through the VPN tunnel After the VPN functionality is disabled, you will notice that your pings fail to return Blocking Tasks Blocking tasks enable the cloud administrator to pause tasks within vCloud Director so prerequisites can be completed For example, an administrator can use this functionality to ensure that any media that has been uploaded to a catalog has been scanned for viruses before it is made available for others to use To demonstrate this ability, go to the Administration tab for vCloud Director Select Blocking Tasks from the left-hand navigation pane and then click Modify Media Name and Description in the list of tasks available to block T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Notice under the Settings tab that you have several options, including sending notifications to an AMQP broker Refer to the vCloud Director Administrator’s Guide for more information on configuring an AMQP broker Although we are not going to modify any of the default settings in this guide, it is important that you know the options available to you Go to the Dev portal and select the properties for the media we uploaded to the catalog earlier T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Change the name as you want and click OK You will see that the status of the media has now changed to Pending processing… Going back to the blocking tasks for vCloud Director, you’ll see that the task is now listed as being blocked T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide By right-clicking the blocked task, you can choose to allow the task to complete, abort it, or fail it For the sake of illustration, select Fail Under Enter a reason for failing, type in a message that you want logged T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Back in the Dev portal, you’ll see that the media status has changed again, to Ready In addition, Cannot update is mentioned Clicking the provided link will display more information Here you will see the reason you entered previously for why you failed the task By now, you should have a good feel for some of the security features included with vCloud Director These include the ability to establish a VPN between organizations and other clouds and the ability to configure a firewall with VCD You’ve also seen how you can use Blocking Tasks to provide notification or other actions on activities within your private cloud T ECHNICAL W HI T E P A P E R / 1 vCloud Director 1.5 Evaluation Guide Conclusion With VMware vCloud Director, you can: • Increase business agility by empowering users to deploy preconfigured services or build a complete application stack with a few clicks • Maintain security and control over a multitenant environment with policy-based user controls and VMware vShield security technologies • Reduce expenditures by efficiently delivering resources to internal organizations as virtual datacenters, enabling decreased costs through increased resource pooling and automation • Follow an evolutionary path to the cloud by leveraging existing investments and open standards, for interoperability and application portability between clouds In this paper, we have shown how you can use VMware vCloud Director to transform your vSphere environment into a cloud environment Refer to the VMware vCloud Director User’s Guide for more details To gain cost visibility into your VMware vCloud Director–based private cloud, download and evaluate VMware vCenter Chargeback™ 1.5 For details, refer to the VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager 1.5 Evaluation Guide VMware Contact Information For additional information or to purchase VMware vCloud Director, the VMware global network of solutions providers is ready to assist If you would like to contact VMware directly, you can reach a sales representative at 1-877-4VMWARE (650-475-5000 outside North America) or email sales@vmware.com When emailing, include the state, 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