Learning VMware VCloud Air : Learning VMware VCloud Air.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with VMware vCloud Air -- What is cloud computing? -- How is cloud computing useful? -- vCloud Air: concepts and components -- vCloud Air service offerings -- Types of vCloud Air services -- The Dedicated Cloud service -- The Virtual Private Cloud service -- The Disaster Recovery service -- Signing up for VMware vCloud Air -- Regions -- Navigating through the interface -- Resource usage -- Virtual machines -- Gateways -- Networks -- Virtual Datacenters - VDCs -- User management -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Working with Virtual Machines -- What is a virtual machine? -- vApps, templates, and catalogs -- Getting started with virtual machines -- Creating a virtual machine using a template -- Creating a virtual machine from scratch -- Virtual machine power operations -- Editing virtual machine properties using vCloud Air -- Editing virtual machine properties using vCloud director -- Creating custom catalogs -- Accessing virtual machines using the VMRC -- Monitoring virtual machines -- Best practices and tips -- Summary -- Chapter 3: vCloud Air Networking and Security -- The vCloud Air networking components -- Gateways and networks -- Gateways -- Networks -- Assigning public IPs -- Connecting virtual machines to a network -- Connecting virtual machines to the Internet -- Scenario -- Networking services provided by gateways -- DHCP -- NAT -- The Firewall -- Static routing -- Virtual private networks -- Load balancing -- Scenario -- Best practices and tips -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Extending vCloud Air -- VPNs -- Site-to-site VPN connectivity -- Multi-site VPN connectivity -- Extending datacenters to clouds using vCloud Connector -- What is VMware vCloud Connector?.

vCloud Connector features -- Deploying vCloud Connector in your environment -- Deploying vCloud Connector Server -- Deploying vCloud Connector node -- Registering vCloud Connector in vSphere Client -- Adding clouds to vCloud Connector -- Copying content between clouds using vCloud Connector -- Best practices -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Monitoring Workloads on vCloud Air -- The VMware vRealize Suite -- VMware vRealize Operations -- Adding Data Nodes -- Adding Remote Collector Nodes -- Configuring HA for vRealize Operations Master Nodes -- Configuring vRealize Operations for first use -- vRealize Operations Manager Solutions -- Configuring the vSphere Solutions pack -- Configuring the vCloud Air Management Pack -- vCloud Air Management Pack Dashboards -- Best practices -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery using vCloud Air -- The importance of business continuity and disaster recovery -- The need for cloud-based disaster recovery -- VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery -- Key features and benefits of VMware vCloud Air - Disaster Recovery -- Setting up a disaster recovery service -- Setting up VMware vSphere Replication -- Configuring a vSphere Replication connection with vCloud Air -- Configuring virtual machine replication -- Performing virtual machine test recovery -- VMware vCloud Air Data Protection -- Best practices -- Summary -- Index.

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