This is small 5 slide PPT explaining my understanding about vApps in vCloud director

1. vApps
By Preetam Zarey
For vZare.com
Version 1.0
Tuesday, October 16, 2013

2. vApp is the standard unit of deployment
Power ON and Power Off options with priority
Can be imported or exported as OVF* package
vApp contains network construct named as vApp
networks
• Not as same as vApp defined in vSphere
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Introduction
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With 5.5 you can import OVA as well. Need to confirm if you can export in OVA format

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• Use a default 1 vCPU unless requirements calls for more
• Install latest VMware tools.
• Deploy VMs with default shares, reservations and limits
unless there is specific requirement. Please keep this in
mind when you have Reservation pool as allocation
model.
• Use VMXNET3 where supported by OS.
• Use latest HW version.
• Secure VM as you would Physical machines
• Use standard VM naming conventions.
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General Design Considerations
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4. • Windows 8 XP Mode:- To run older application which are not
compatible with Windows 8
• 64-Bit nested virtualization:- For non-production use cases
only. E.g. Training and demo environments.
• CPU Intensive workload:- you can scale up to 32-64 vCPU.
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• Whatever you configure as highest version while carving
out Provider vDC, same is the highest version for VMs
inside Organization vDC
• vSphere 5.1 supports Virtual HW 9
• Virtual Hardware Version 9 provides to vCloud apps
following features
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Virtual Hardware Version 9
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5. Differences between vSphere
& vCD vApps
• vCD doesn’t support all of the OVF sections. Following
sections are not visible in vCD.
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AnnotationSection
DeploymentOptionSection
InstallSection
ProductSection
ResourceAllocationSection
• When vCD ignores a section, vSphere might interpret the
contents differently than if it was a native vSphere vApp. This
results in difference in behavior when operating the imported
vApp in a organization vDC.
• vDC removes the ignored OVF sections during vApp download
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• Resource settings
• Startup & Shutdown sequence
• OS Type
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• OVF is XML fragment which contains data for specific function
e.g.
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6. My
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