VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

What you need for this book

The book was written using vCloud 5.1 and vCloud 5.5; therefore you need at least:

• VMware vSphere 5.1 environment (or better)
• VMware vCloud Director 5.1 (or better)
• VMware vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) 5.1 (or better)

You can obtain trial licensing for vCloud from http://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.

In this book we will also discuss recipes that require the following software:

Generally used tools:

• Flash 11 (or better)
• Java 7 (or better)
• Firefox or Internet Explorer
• SSH
• SCP/SFTP

Tools for networks (Chapter 1, Setting Up Networks and Chapter 2, vCloud Networks):

• Cisco 1000v and Cisco NSM
• m0n0Wall

Tools for API usage (Chapter 5, Working with the vCloud API):

• VMware vCenter Orchestrator 5.1 (vCO) (or better; the appliance is OK too) ...