Working with vApps
With vApps, vSphere administrators can combine multiple VMs into a single unit. Why is this functionality useful? Increasingly, enterprise applications are no longer constrained to a single VM. Instead, they may have components spread across multiple VMs. For example, a typical multitier application might have one or more front-end web servers, an application server, and a backend database server. Although each of these servers is a discrete VM and could be managed as such, they are also part of a larger application that is servicing the organization. Combining these different VMs into a vApp allows the vSphere administrator to manage the different VMs as a single unit.
In the following sections, we'll show you how to work with vApps, including creating and editing vApps. Let's start with creating a vApp.
Creating a vApp
Creating a vApp is a two-step process. First, you create the vApp container and configure any settings. Second, you add one or more VMs...
