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VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Evaluation Guide
Getting Started
About This Guide
VMware vCloud® Director™ enables customers to build a private cloud–based infrastructure-as–a-service (IaaS)
oering 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 5.1 Evaluation Guide is designed to provide guided, hands-on evaluation of the
most compelling and relevant features of vCloud Director. It walks through a series of procedures, each building
upon the previous. When the evaluator has completed the process, they will have a working configuration that
illustrates the key concepts that should be understood before deploying a production 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 do 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 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
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