Using vApps to organize virtualized applications

vApps can be used to group individual virtual machines with interdependencies into a single application. A common use case for this would be a multi-tier web application that requires a web server frontend, an application server, and the supporting database server. The application can then be managed as a single inventory object.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to use vApps to organize virtual machine workloads:

1. Create a new vApp by launching the New vApp… wizard, as shown in the following screenshot:

Context menu to create a new vApp

2. The method for creating the vApp (either creating a new vApp or cloning an existing vApp), the vApp Name, the Folder...