1. What’s New in vCloud Director 1.5
Most Agile Access to Secure Isolation and The Only Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Simple Management Infrastructure
• Fast Provisioning (Linked • vCloud Messages • vShield Edge VPN Integration
Clones) • Microsoft SQL Server Support
• vApp Custom Guest Properties • Expanded vCloud API and
• 3rdpary distributed switch SDK
support • vSphere 5 support
• Globalization

2. Fast Provisioning using Linked Clones
Overview
• Provisions new VMs from a template
without replicating the entire image
• Instead, links the images (clones) so that
common elements are stored only once
vmd vmd vmd
k k k
Benefits
• Dramatically speeds up provisioning time
Template from >2 minutes to <5 seconds
vmdk
• Reduces storage footprint (and cost) by
over 60%

3. Linked Clones in vCD
Full Clone (Default)
Linked clones can span
• multiple datastores
A Entire disk copied B • multiple vCenter Servers
New independent VM
Fast Provisioning
A
No disk copy A’
Delta disks spawned
Delta Disk
Delta Disk
Base Disk (READ ONLY)

4. Enabling Linked Clones
 Enable fast provisioning on an organization virtual datacenter with
a single mouse click

5. Manage your cloud networking using standard tools
vCloud Director 1.5
3rd party distributed switch
REST API
vShield
Manager
Network vendor tools
Administration/Mo
nitoring
Network
admins

6. vCloud Messages
Overview
• Connect vCloud Director to enterprise
systems through messaging to rapidly
create end-to-end system integrations
Benefits
• Integrate vCloud Director with existing IT
management tools
• Receive updates for vCloud Director tasks
CMDB IPAM Ticketing

7. Notifications and Blocking tasks
 Over 100+ tasks have notifications available
 Certain tasks can be configured to block for external input before
completing
• Browse the category of tasks and select the operation (e.g. vApp Power
operations, Virtual Data Center Operations)
• Browse to System -> Administration -> Blocking Tasks

8. Microsoft SQL Server Support
Overview
• Build a vCloud Director environment u
sing a Microsoft SQL database for all
cloud configuration data
Benefits
• Leverage existing investments and
database skill sets
• Reduce the cost of building a cloud

9. List of supported databases
 Supported Databases
• Oracle 10g Std/Ent Release 2
• Oracle 11g Std/Ent
• Oracle 11g R2 New
• Microsoft SQL 2005 Std/Ent SP4 New
• Microsoft SQL 2008 Exp/Std/Ent (64-bit) New

10. vSphere 5 support
vCloud Director 1.5 Overview
• vCloud Director adds support for
vSphere 5 platform
vCenter Server with Auto
Deploy • vSphere Auto Deploy support
• Support for virtual hardware v8
Image Profiles Host Profiles • 32 vCPU
• 1 TB vRAM
Benefits
• Faster deployment of physical
vSphere vSphere vSphere infrastructure
• Run the most demanding workloads in
vCloud Director

11. Expanded vShield Integration
Overview
• Integration with vShield IPSec VPN
capabilities through both API & UI
• Expanded firewall capabilities to include
Virtual Virtual
Datacenter: Datacenter: full 5-tuple firewalls
Remote
WAN Local
E E
d d
g g
e e Benefits
• Organization administrators can configure
private networking enclave connected
back to corporate datacenters
• 5-tuple firewalls allows fully flexible
network access management—control
source & destination.

12. IPSec VPN tunnel configuration types
 Tunnel to
vCloud 1 vCloud 2 network in
Org A Org A another
organization
Org Network VPN Org Network
Private/Public vCloud
 Tunnel to
Org B
network
in this
Org Network VPN Org Network organization
vCloud
Org C  Tunnel to
VPN Endpoint a remote
network
Org Network VPN