Over the past few days, quite a few articles have been appearing about VMware vCloud Director, including some excellent networking articles from Duncan Epping yellow-bricks.com and a great architecture piece from Frank Dennemanfrankdenneman.nl but I havent seen anything about how to deploy a VMware vCloud Director environment with resilience or high availability, so thought I would write an overview of the basic design. So within the VMware Cloud Team we have taken a building block approach to deploying vCloud Infrastructure. By using this approach a resilient infrastructure can be guaranteed. A building block approach will enable the environments to easily scale horizontally. Building blocks within a vCD environment are referred to as “Resource Groups”. A vCD environment consists of all components needed to run a VMware vCloud excluding the underlying vSphere infrastructure: • VMware vCloud Director (vCD) • VMware vShield Manager • VMware Chargeback • VMware vCenter (supporting the Resource […]
