VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

Using Organization Networks for interconnection between vApps

Providing infrastructure for ever-changing test systems is a challenge; the following section gives one solution to the problem.

Getting ready

You need to create two vApps. You will fill one with the entire infrastructure VMs such as DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, database servers, and mail servers.

The other vApp contains your test set of VMs that will make use of the infrastructure VMs.

How to do it…

1. Create an isolated Organization Network with a Static IP Pool.
2. Create a new vApp that will contain the infrastructure VMs.
3. Add the isolated network to the infrastructure vApp.
4. Connect the entire infrastructure VMs to the isolated network with manual IPs that are outside the range of the pool (for ...