Chapter 11. Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air
VMware vCloud Director (vCD) is VMware's product for cloud service providers to build multitenant cloud services. VMware vCloud Air is VMware's public cloud platform built on vCD. Virtual machines managed by vCloud Director should not be modified in VMware vSphere. Both products can be managed using PowerCLI. The PowerCLI modules VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud and VMware.VimAutomation.PCloud provides cmdlets to use vCD and vCloud Air. In this chapter, you will learn to how to manage vCD and vCloud Air virtual appliances as well as virtual machines using PowerCLI.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Connecting to vCloud Air servers and vCloud Director servers
- Retrieving organizations
- Retrieving organization virtual data centers
- Retrieving organization networks
- Retrieving vCloud users
- Using vCloud virtual appliances
- Managing vCloud virtual machines
- Using the vCloud Director API with
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