vCloud Connector

Building a Private Cloud with vCloud Director-Part 14-Migrating VM from vSphere Infrastructure to private Cloud using vCloud Connector

Manish Jha

In our last post  of this series we have learnt what is vCloud connector and what it does.

Now its time to see vCloud Connector in action. In this post we will learn how to migrate a VM from existing vSphere Infrastructure to a private cloud running on vCloud Director.

vCloud Connector has server/node type architecture where there will be one server and one node for each type of cloud. Also we require a node to be deployed for vSphere Infrastructure.

In my last post Installing/Configuring vCloud Connector I have deployed a server and also a node for my vSphere infrastructure. After that we have to deploy a new node for the private cloud (running on vCloud director)

I have already deployed the same and in below screenshot you can see one node by the name “vCC-Node-Pri Cloud”

vcc-p1

Also I have registered this node with my vCloud Director instance

vcc-p2

On vCloud Connector Server I have added the newly added node which is registered with vCloud Director

vcc-p3

I can see both my node (for vSphere and vCloud director) listed here

vcc-p4

Now login to vCenter Server using VI client and from home page click on vCloud Connector to launch below page.… Read More

Building a Private Cloud with vCloud Director-Part 13-Installing and Configuring vCloud Connector

Manish Jha

In this post we will see how to deploy vCloud Connector and use it to facilitate a hybrid cloud architecture. Before going into installation and configuration part first lets see what is vcloud connector

What is vCloud connector?

The VMware vCloud Connector is a tool that facilitates hybrid cloud computing for organizations. The vCloud Connector essentially helps to orchestrate and administer the migration of VM’s across different data centers and clouds.

VMware vCloud Connector links your internal private cloud with public clouds, so you can manage them as a single hybrid environment and transfer workloads back and forth.

vCloud Connector also provides the following key features.

  • Content Sync lets you set up a Content Library to distribute and synchronize templates across clouds.
  • Datacenter Extension (Stretch Deploy) lets you extend your private data center to a public vCloud.
  • Offline Data Transfer enables you to transfer large amounts of data from your private data center to VMware vCloud® Air™.
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