This document discusses VMware's cloud automation programs and partner certification opportunities. It describes VMware's VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program which certifies partners' vCenter Orchestrator plug-ins. The benefits of certification include inclusion in the VMware Solutions Exchange and VMware Compatibility Guide. Several examples of partners' certified plug-ins are provided covering storage, IP address management, service management, and networking integration points.
2. Agenda
VMware Cloud Management Overview
VMware Cloud Automation Programs
• VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
• Cloud Service (XaaS) Offerings
• VMware Ready Application Services BluePrints Program
VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Partner Next Steps
Developer Center
3. Agenda
VMware Cloud Management Overview
VMware Cloud Automation Programs
• VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
• Cloud Service (XaaS) Offerings
• VMware Ready Application Services BluePrints Program
VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Partner Next Steps
Developer Center
4. Agenda
VMware Cloud Management Overview
VMware Cloud Automation Programs
• VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
• Cloud Service (XaaS) Offerings
• VMware Ready Application Services BluePrints Program
VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Partner Next Steps
Developer Center
5. Agenda
VMware Cloud Management Overview
VMware Cloud Automation Programs
• VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
• Cloud Service (XaaS) Offerings
• VMware Ready Application Services BluePrints Program
VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Partner Next Steps
Developer Center
6. Agenda
VMware Cloud Management Overview
VMware Cloud Automation Programs
• VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
• Cloud Service (XaaS) Offerings
• VMware Ready Application Services BluePrints Program
VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Partner Next Steps
Developer Center
7. Agenda
VMware Cloud Management Overview
VMware Cloud Automation Programs
• VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
• Cloud Service (XaaS) Offerings
• VMware Ready Application Services BluePrints Program
VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Partner Next Steps
Developer Center
8. VMware vCloud Automation Center Mission
Infrastructure
Automation
Infrastructure
Automation
Provision and manage infrastructure
services on VMware private and
public clouds, other hypervisors,
physical servers, Amazon EC2 and
other public clouds based on
business and IT policies.
App Delivery and
Release Automation
App Delivery and
Release Automation
Model and automate the deployment
and lifecycle of applications on any
infrastructure using blueprints
to standardize application
components and policies to automate
app release process.
IT as a Broker
of Services
IT as a Broker
of Services
Deploy, manage and govern access
to IT datacenter
services such as virtual desktops,
Hadoop clusters, employee
onboarding, storage, exchange
mailboxes, and more.
Multi-
platform
Multi-
provider
Hybrid
These screenshots are for illustration purposes only
9. VMware Solution Exchange
Cloud Management Marketplace
VMware Solution Exchange
Cloud Management Marketplace
Extensibility Opportunities for Cloud Management
Cloud Automation
vCloud Automation Center
(IaaS, DaaS, PaaS Automation )
(Self Service, Catalog & Governance)
vCloud Automation Center
(IaaS, DaaS, PaaS Automation )
(Self Service, Catalog & Governance)
vCenter Orchestrator
(integrations)
(Plug-ins & Workflows)
vCenter Orchestrator
(integrations)
(Plug-ins & Workflows)
Cloud Operations
vCenter
Operations
(Availability,
Performance, Capacity,
Configuration,
Compliance)
Time Series Metrics,
Analytics, Dashboards,
Problem Identification
vCenter
Operations
(Availability,
Performance, Capacity,
Configuration,
Compliance)
Time Series Metrics,
Analytics, Dashboards,
Problem Identification
Log Insight
(Automated Log
Management)
Aggregation,
Analytics,
Search
Log Insight
(Automated Log
Management)
Aggregation,
Analytics,
Search
Cloud Business
IT Business
Management
(Financial,
Service Level,
Vendor Mgmt)
IT Business
Management
(Financial,
Service Level,
Vendor Mgmt)
IT Financial
Management
(Cost & Usage,
Compare,
Optimize, Plan)
IT Financial
Management
(Cost & Usage,
Compare,
Optimize, Plan)
Management
Pack
(Data Collection,
Agent Plugin,
Policies,
Dashboards,
Alerts)
Management
Pack
(Data Collection,
Agent Plugin,
Policies,
Dashboards,
Alerts)
Content Pack
(Aggregation,
Extracted Fields,
Queries, Alerts
Dashboards)
Content Pack
(Aggregation,
Extracted Fields,
Queries, Alerts
Dashboards)
Orchestration
Plug-ins, workflows
(Integrations,
Approvals,Activities,
Orchestration
Plug-ins, workflows
(Integrations,
Approvals,Activities,
XaaS
(Self Service, Governance)
XaaS
(Self Service, Governance)
Blueprints
(Application
Topology and
metadata)
Blueprints
(Application
Topology and
metadata)
FutureFuture FutureFuture
Solution: VMware, Partner or Community
Cloud Management Products
12. Partner Plug-in Integrations
Integration with vCenter, vCloud
Director, Horizon View and
vCloud Automation Center
Automated remediation for
vCenter Operations Manager
XaaS offerings (e.g. Storage
as a service, Backup as a
service, etc.) for vCAC
• Continuous Delivery and
DevOps
• New infrastructure fabrics
for vCAC
TODAY COMING SOON
Can Be Integrated
With More VMware
Products
Can Be Integrated
With More VMware
Products
Can Be Leveraged
To Offer New
Solutions
Can Be Leveraged
To Offer New
Solutions
14. VMware Cloud Automation Certification Programs
• vCAC Programs
- VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In Program
- VMware Ready Application Services Blueprints Program
• Description
- The purpose of VMware’s Cloud Automation Certification Programs is to enable
partners to create rich content and extend VMware solutions with partner capabilities
• High-level Goals
- Create best practices to guide partners in development of content
- Provide partners with VMware consulting services
- Certify content developed by partners
- Align customer support between VMware GSS and Partner Support
15. Certification Benefits for Partners
Differentiate Partner
Solution in VMware
Solutions Exchange (vSX)
with “VMware Ready” logo
Over 9M visits + Leads
Marketing
Support
Presence in
VMware Compatibility
Guide (vCG)
2014: ~2M visits
16. Overview of the Certification Programs
• vCO Plug-in SDK Documents and Video
• Program Guide, Best Practices Guide
• Certification Guide
Documentation
• vCO Plug-in SDK publicly available for download
• Partner development consulting support
• Partners can go to Developer Center for all info
http://developercenter.vmware.com/home
Development and
Consulting
• Application Services: Services, Blueprints, Script Tasks and
VMTemplates
• vCenter Orchestrator: vCO plug-ins
Certification
• End customers collaborate with VMware and the Partner via the
TSAnet process to resolve any API issuesGSS (Support)
• Cloud Management Marketplace in Solution Exchange
(www.vmware.com/cmm) : one location to have access to all the
content developed by both Partners and VMware
Solution Exchange
• Joint press releases and joint webinars with certified partners
• White Paper with Cisco
• Joint Webinar with Infoblox
• Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/management/author/wgreene
Joint Marketing
• vCloud Automation Center 6.0
• vCenter Orchestrator 5.5
• VMware Technology Partner Program (TAP) roadmap sessions
Technical Previews and
Roadmap Sessions
18. VMware Ready vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in Program
VMware
Compatibility
Guide
VMware Cloud
Management
Marketplace
• Leverage over 250,000+ customers
• vCO bundled with vCenter and vCAC at no
extra charge
• vCO available as appliance
• vCO integrated with vSphere Web Client
• Central integration point
• Lower your R&D costs. Integrate to
vCenter, and vCAC through
one solution
• Launch vCO workflows from multiple
VMware products (vCenter, vCAC, vCenter
Operations, etc.)
• Create XaaS offerings using vCO plug-in
VMware Ready vCenter
Orchestrator Plug-in Program
(Partner Benefits)
VMware
Ready
Open to Partners who want to
build vCO Plug-ins to
integrate their products with
the vCO Platform
Requirements:
TAP Elite or above
Partner is developing a vCO
Plug-in to be certified
For Onboarding details:
Go to Developer Center
developercenter.vmware.com
19. Extensibility: Integrating with 3rd party resources and
systems of record
vCloud Automation Center 3rd Party
Integration
• CMDB
• DNS
• IPAM
• Load Balancers
• Service Desk
• Monitoring
Systems
• Databases
• Web Services
3rd Party
Integration
• CMDB
• DNS
• IPAM
• Load Balancers
• Service Desk
• Monitoring
Systems
• Databases
• Web Services
vCenterOrchestrator
ITProcessAutomation
vCenterOrchestrator
ITProcessAutomation
40+ plugins,
Thousands of
workflows
40+ plugins,
Thousands of
workflows
Backup/Restore
20. Technology Domain and Partners
Technology Domain Use Case Examples Solution Partners - Examples
Storage • Create LUN
• Delete LUN
EMC VIPR
IBM XIV
NetApp OnCommand
IP Address Management • Allocate IP address, DNS record
• De allocate IP address, DNS record
Infoblox
Bluecat Networks
Service Management • Change Management
• Incident Management
• Configuration Management
BMC Remedy
BMC Atrium
HP uCMDB
HP Service Manager
Networking (L4-L7) • Network Setup
• Network Services – Create Delete
F5 Networks
Converged Infrastructure (CI) • Performing elastic provisioning
• Add or release infrastructure components
• Update topology views
EMC UIM, EMC Hybrid Cloud, VCE
21. EMC ViPR vCO Plug-in
vCenter
Hyper-V
SCVMMSCVMM
vSpherevSphere
Hyper-V
vSpherevSphere
vCenter OrchestratorvCenter Orchestrator
Workflow Engine
ViPR Microsoft VMware
ViPR
VASA Provider
VNX Isilon
3rd Party
VMAX
Overview
Automate configuration and storage
provisioning for multi-vendor
hypervisors/blades
Schedule operations based on events,
time windows or other policies
Overview
Automate configuration and storage
provisioning for multi-vendor
hypervisors/blades
Schedule operations based on events,
time windows or other policies
Customer Benefits
Orchestrate integrated storage provisioning
with compute and other plug-ins
Implement consistent policy based storage
across enterprise
Customer Benefits
Orchestrate integrated storage provisioning
with compute and other plug-ins
Implement consistent policy based storage
across enterprise
22. IBM XIV Storage System
vCAC via vCO Plug-in
Overview
Embeds native XIV discovery,
provisioning, and lifecycle operations in
your workflows
Allows XIV automation in your cloud
management system
Easy deploy via the single-pane IBM
Storage Integration Server
Overview
Embeds native XIV discovery,
provisioning, and lifecycle operations in
your workflows
Allows XIV automation in your cloud
management system
Easy deploy via the single-pane IBM
Storage Integration Server
Customer Benefits
Self-provision and scale with tune-free
predictable SLAs
Apply your resource placement and
space reclamation to capacity-efficient
XIV for improved economics
Customer Benefits
Self-provision and scale with tune-free
predictable SLAs
Apply your resource placement and
space reclamation to capacity-efficient
XIV for improved economics
23. Infoblox IPAM vCO Plug-in
Overview
Automates the processes of allocating
and deallocating IP addresses to a newly
created virtual machines and updating
their DNS records
Overview
Automates the processes of allocating
and deallocating IP addresses to a newly
created virtual machines and updating
their DNS records
Customer Benefits
IPAM provisioning for VMs in minutes,
instead of hours or days
Simplify troubleshooting and reduce
downtime with real-time visibility
into physical and virtualized
network infrastructure
Lower operational costs
Customer Benefits
IPAM provisioning for VMs in minutes,
instead of hours or days
Simplify troubleshooting and reduce
downtime with real-time visibility
into physical and virtualized
network infrastructure
Lower operational costs
New Infoblox IPAM plug-in features (version 2.3)
Support for Extensible Attributes
Support for DNS Views and Network Views
Elimination of vCAC Network Profiles
Support for A/AAAA/PTR records
Support for vCloud Director vApp recomposition
Improved logging and error handling
24. BlueCat Networks IPAM vCO Plug-in
Overview
Integrates directly with BlueCat Address
Manager and VMware vCenter
Orchestrator to automate the provisioning
of IP addresses and DNS, so that VMs
are available on the network immediately
Overview
Integrates directly with BlueCat Address
Manager and VMware vCenter
Orchestrator to automate the provisioning
of IP addresses and DNS, so that VMs
are available on the network immediately
Customer Benefits
Eliminate delays and costs associated
with provisioning VMware resources for
the network.
Provisions DNS resources so that
new VMs are connected to the
network immediately
Tracks all provisioned IP address and
maps DNS hosts for visibility and
audit control
Customer Benefits
Eliminate delays and costs associated
with provisioning VMware resources for
the network.
Provisions DNS resources so that
new VMs are connected to the
network immediately
Tracks all provisioned IP address and
maps DNS hosts for visibility and
audit control
25. BMC Remedy ITSM & Atrium CMDB Plug-in for vCO by Avnet Services
Bridge the Gap Between VMware Virtualization and IT Service Management
Overview
Allows the automated creation of Change,
Incident and Task requests from vCenter, vCloud
Automation Center and vCloud Director via
vCenter Orchestrator
Allows organizations to automatically create and
update CMDB configuration items (CIs) when
performing VM provisioning or configuration
operations.
Overview
Allows the automated creation of Change,
Incident and Task requests from vCenter, vCloud
Automation Center and vCloud Director via
vCenter Orchestrator
Allows organizations to automatically create and
update CMDB configuration items (CIs) when
performing VM provisioning or configuration
operations.
Customer Benefits
Enable vCO workflows to automate process and
data integration with BMC Remedy
Create BMC Remedy Incidents, Changes and
Configuration Items based on service requests
from VMware vCenter, vCloud Automation Center
or vCloud Director
Reduce manual labor and improve process
efficiency
Customer Benefits
Enable vCO workflows to automate process and
data integration with BMC Remedy
Create BMC Remedy Incidents, Changes and
Configuration Items based on service requests
from VMware vCenter, vCloud Automation Center
or vCloud Director
Reduce manual labor and improve process
efficiency
26. Overview
Control automation to build, move, and manage
a new VM or vApp with HP Service Manager
ITSM ticket, while making inventory updates in
the uCMDB
Enable vCO workflows to automate process
and data integration with HP Service Manager &
HP uCMDB servers
Overview
Control automation to build, move, and manage
a new VM or vApp with HP Service Manager
ITSM ticket, while making inventory updates in
the uCMDB
Enable vCO workflows to automate process
and data integration with HP Service Manager &
HP uCMDB servers
Customer Benefits
Integrate HP Service Manager Help Desk,
Change Management, and HP uCMDB
applications with VMware vSphere, vCenter
Operations, vCenter, vApps, and vCloud
environment using vCO
Leverage out-of-the-box sample workflows for a
faster time to market
Customer Benefits
Integrate HP Service Manager Help Desk,
Change Management, and HP uCMDB
applications with VMware vSphere, vCenter
Operations, vCenter, vApps, and vCloud
environment using vCO
Leverage out-of-the-box sample workflows for a
faster time to market
HP Service Manager & uCMDB Plug-in for vCO by Avnet Services
Bridge the Gap Between VMware Virtualization and IT Service Management
27. F5 Management vCO Plug-in
Overview
The F5 Management Plug-In for VMware
vCenter Orchestrator automates and
orchestrates BIG-IP services
• vCO 5.1 and BIG-IP 11.2 or higher are
required
• Version 2.0 of the plug-in now available
Overview
The F5 Management Plug-In for VMware
vCenter Orchestrator automates and
orchestrates BIG-IP services
• vCO 5.1 and BIG-IP 11.2 or higher are
required
• Version 2.0 of the plug-in now available
Customer Benefits
The F5 plug-in helps customers to:
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Ease accidental misconfiguration
• Orchestrate BIG-IP services
Customer Benefits
The F5 plug-in helps customers to:
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Ease accidental misconfiguration
• Orchestrate BIG-IP services
28. Egenera PAN Manager vCO Plug-in
Egenera
PAN
Manager
Physical
resources
Overview
Plug-in enables VMware users to discover, provision
and manage physical server resources
Enables VMware users to:
• Create physical servers ( define, boot, shut down,
power off)
• Create secure logical partitions of physical server
resources
• Create pools for failover
Overview
Plug-in enables VMware users to discover, provision
and manage physical server resources
Enables VMware users to:
• Create physical servers ( define, boot, shut down,
power off)
• Create secure logical partitions of physical server
resources
• Create pools for failover
Customer Benefits
Can enable VMware administrators to
automate the discovery and provisioning of physical
servers with VMware hosts.
Create a flexible pool of physical servers
for deployment of VMware hosts with the capability to
automatically recover from failed host server hardware
and adjust capacity of VMware clusters
Partition server resources into secure pools with unique
sign-in providing multi-tenancy
Customer Benefits
Can enable VMware administrators to
automate the discovery and provisioning of physical
servers with VMware hosts.
Create a flexible pool of physical servers
for deployment of VMware hosts with the capability to
automatically recover from failed host server hardware
and adjust capacity of VMware clusters
Partition server resources into secure pools with unique
sign-in providing multi-tenancy
29. • AMQP / RabbitMQ
• Email (POP3 and SMTP)
• HTTP-REST
• JDBC
• SOAP
• SNMP v1, v2c and v3
• SQL
• SSH
• Telnet
• XML
Standard Protocols
• Amazon EC2
• BT Diamond IPControl
• Intigua Solution
• VMware Horizon View
• Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
• Microsoft Azure
• OpenStack
• Puppet
• VMware vCloud Hybrid Services
• VMware NSX
• VMware Site Recovery Manager
• VMware View
• VMware vSAN
Coming in 2014 !!!
• vCenter Server 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1
• vCloud Director 1.0, 1.5 & 5.1
• vCloud Automation Center 5.1, 5.2
• vCenter Update Manager 4.1, 5.0 & 5.1
• vCenter Chargeback 2.0
• vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5 & 5.7
• vCenter Orchestrator Multinode 5.0 & 5.1
• vSphere Auto Deploy
• VMware Service Manager 9.1
• VMware Service Elasticity
• VMware Hadoop as a Service
VMware Applications
vCO Current Plug-ins and Roadmap
• Bluecat Networks IPAM
• BMC Atrium CMDB & Remedy
• EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager
• EMC ViPR
• Egenera PAN Manager
• F5 Networks
• Infoblox IPAM
• HP uCMDB and Service Manager
• HP Operations Orchestration
• IBM XIV Storage
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Windows PowerShell
• NetApp WFA
• Radware vDirect
• ServiceNow
• Up.time Software
• Cisco UCS Manager
Partner Applications
31. Description
Using vCO and vCAC to Create XaaS Offerings
Benefits
• Reduce the time to deliver
a workload
• Leverage the Cloud Automation solution
to deliver any kind of service
• Extensible design to facilitate XaaS:
Database, Storage, Networking,
Desktops, Security, Compliance, etc.
• Connect to external services
(like databases, load balancers, etc.)
when modeling application blueprints
Self-Service
IaaS PaaS DaaS XaaS
Cloud Automation
Heterogeneous Infrastructure
Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery
31
32. Service Description What? Object / Enhancement
Storage Storage Object LUNs and File systems
Database Database Object Database Instances
Availability Failover (SRM) Enhancement Redundant copy of machine
Security Firewall / Antivirus / IDS Enhancement Protection of machine (FW, install AV, monitor)
Compliance Configuration Mgmt Enhancement Monitoring and applying machine/app/OS settings
Desktop Virtual Desktops Object Virtual Desktop instance
Application Applications Enhancement Application installed on machine
Scalability Scale-out/in on demand Enhancement Add / Remove machines based on load criteria
Email Email accounts Object Email accounts
Access
(entitlement)
SaaS entitlement Object
Use of hosted app Software based on consumption (i.e.
users, # of records)
Example Services for XaaS Offerings
33. Storage as a Service – ViPR, vCAC Integration
VirtualVirtual
PhysicalPhysical
Multi-Vendor ComputevCloud
Automation Center
Config vCO Endpoint
vCenter OrchestratorvCenter Orchestrator
Workflow Engine
ViPR
Plug-in
vSphere
ViPR
VASA Provider
VNX Isilon
3rd Party
VMAX
Overview
Provide users with self-service portal to
provision compute and storage resources
within established policies
Automate storage configuration
and provisioning
Overview
Provide users with self-service portal to
provision compute and storage resources
within established policies
Automate storage configuration
and provisioning
Customer Benefits
Enables unified policy based self-serve
portals for integrated storage and compute
Provides single control point for IaaS
administrators to define services
Customer Benefits
Enables unified policy based self-serve
portals for integrated storage and compute
Provides single control point for IaaS
administrators to define services
34. Storage as a Service – NetApp WFA Plug-in
Overview
This solution provides storage as a service and allows
consumers to request catalog item that provision
applications to use NetApp storage, and to manage
NetApp Snapshot backups
Requires vCAC 6.0 configured with
vCO 5.5
NetApp WFA plug-in should be imported and configured
with the vCAC vCO setup
Overview
This solution provides storage as a service and allows
consumers to request catalog item that provision
applications to use NetApp storage, and to manage
NetApp Snapshot backups
Requires vCAC 6.0 configured with
vCO 5.5
NetApp WFA plug-in should be imported and configured
with the vCAC vCO setup
Customer Benefits
Allows consumers to request catalog item that provision
applications to use NetApp storage and to manage
NetApp Snapshot backups
Consumers can add disaster recovery support to
VMware NFS data store
Provides Oracle Provisioning with NetApp Storage to its
consumers.
Customer Benefits
Allows consumers to request catalog item that provision
applications to use NetApp storage and to manage
NetApp Snapshot backups
Consumers can add disaster recovery support to
VMware NFS data store
Provides Oracle Provisioning with NetApp Storage to its
consumers.
35. Hadoop as a Service
Overview
This solution triggers Hadoop as a
service from vCAC using vCO
Hadoop as a service runs on top of the Big Data
Extensions allows you to automate the deployment and
management of Apache Hadoop and HBase on virtual
environments such as vSphere
Configuration of vCO 5.5 with vCAC 6.0
is required
Overview
This solution triggers Hadoop as a
service from vCAC using vCO
Hadoop as a service runs on top of the Big Data
Extensions allows you to automate the deployment and
management of Apache Hadoop and HBase on virtual
environments such as vSphere
Configuration of vCO 5.5 with vCAC 6.0
is required
Customer Benefits
Business Management for the Cloud
Optimize Cluster Performance
Customers can easily upload distributions of their
choice and configure Big Data Extensions to deploy
their distributions
Customer Benefits
Business Management for the Cloud
Optimize Cluster Performance
Customers can easily upload distributions of their
choice and configure Big Data Extensions to deploy
their distributions
36. Converged Infrastructure Integrations
Cloud
Administrator
vCAC
XaaS Catalog
vCenter
Orchestrator
Overview
Allows Cloud administrators to provision
additional physical compute and storage
capacity from vCloud Automation Center
and via vCenter Orchestrator
Overview
Allows Cloud administrators to provision
additional physical compute and storage
capacity from vCloud Automation Center
and via vCenter Orchestrator
Customer Benefits
Enable vCO workflows to automate
infrastructure provisioning – Compute and
Storage.
Reduce manual labor and improve
process efficiency
Customer Benefits
Enable vCO workflows to automate
infrastructure provisioning – Compute and
Storage.
Reduce manual labor and improve
process efficiency
Compute
Management
Compute
Management
Monitor/ops
(vCenter
Operations)
Monitor/ops
(vCenter
Operations)
Converged
Infrastructure
Platform
Converged
Infrastructure
Platform
42. VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
Find over 100+ partner solutions for cloud automation and operations
• A one-stop destination portal for finding trusted
management solutions under one umbrella
• Find partner solutions for storage, network, compute,
applications, platforms and databases from industry
leading vendors for VMware cloud management
products
• Orchestration plug-ins, workflows, application
blueprints, management packs and content
packs
Benefits
Overview
• Accelerate management of heterogeneous
environments using pre-tested solutions from trusted
VMware partners
• Extend and implement marketplace solutions for your
custom use cases using services from subject matter
experts (consulting partners)
www.vmware.com/cmm
44. Next Steps …
1. Getting started
̶ VMware Solutions required:
• vCenter Orchestrator
• vCloud Automation Center – Application Services
– For info, go to Developer Center http://developercenter.vmware.com/home
2. Start with building:
– vCO plug-in: download the vCO Plug-in SDK
– Content for Application Director: blueprints, services, tasks and VM Templates
3. Expose your vCO plug-in to vCAC
̶ Create your own XaaS offerings
̶ Extend post provisioning operations on vCAC machines
4. Publish your solution on VMware Cloud Management Marketplace
– An easy way for customers to find your solution and for you to get leads
5. Get your solution certified as VMware Ready
– Contact tapalliance@vmware.com or your VMware Alliance Manager for details