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VMware vCloud Director Evaluator’s Guide
3.2 Software and Licensing Requirements
This guide assumes that you have the obtained and installed the following software:
vCenter Server:
You have at least one evaluation or licensed vCenter Server 4 Standard. You have at least two vSphere
Enterprise Plus evaluation or licensed ESXi/ESX servers. You have one or more virtual machines in your vSphere
environment with Guest Operating System (GOS) installed. Later in the guide we will be importing these virtual
machines into VMware vCloud Director.
For details on installing and configuring vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX servers and creating virtual machines,
please refer to VMware vSphere documentation.
vShield Manager:
You have vShield Manager 4.1 deployed, licensed and configured in your vCenter server. A license for the vShield
Edge components of VMware vCloud Director is included with your VMware vCloud Director evaluation. For details
on installing vShield Manager, please refer to the VMware vCloud Director Installation and Configuration Guide.
VMware vCloud Director:
You have VMware vCloud Director installed and running in a virtual machine or physical machine. For details,
refer to the VMware vCloud Director Installation and Configuration Guide.
Ensure that the above servers are running on separate infrastructures (hosts, storage) than the servers and
storage allocated for the private cloud in Section 3.1. We will refer to the above as management virtual machines
in this guide as depicted in Figure 4-1 of the Lab Environment section (Section 4).
3.3. Software Configurations
Before you get started on your evaluation exercises, you will need to create the following configurations to
provide cloud infrastructure. Table 3-3 provides time estimates based on the hardware used to write this guide.
STEP CONFIGURATION DETAILS TIME ESTIMATE
1. Start the vSphere client and connect to the vCenter server.
Create a cluster called “Private Cloud Compute Cluster,” enable HA and
DRS on this cluster and add the ESXi/ESX servers to this cluster.
3
10 minutes
2. Create at least two resource pools in private cloud compute cluster. Use
the default settings for these resource pools. We will be combining
resource pools with storage and creating infrastructure oerings later in
the guide.
In our lab environment, we have three datastores available and we have
created three resource pools.
10 minutes
3. Create a vNetwork Distributed Switch, create a portgroup called
“External Network” and assign the appropriate VLAN tag.
4
10 minutes
4. Total estimated time: 30 minutes
Table 3-3.
ForinstructionsoncreatingclustersandresourcepoolspleaserefertothevSphereBasicSystemAdministrationGuide
ForinstructionsoncreatingavNetworkdistributedswitchandportgroupspleaserefertothevSphereBasicSystemAdministrationGuide
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