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VMware vCloud Director 1.0 Performance and Best Practices
Introduction
VMware vCloud™ Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that
dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. When coupled with VMware vSphere™, vCloud
Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and
delivering them to users as catalogs.
This white paper addresses four areas regarding VMware® vCloud Director performance:
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vCloud Director sizing guidelines and software requirements
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Best practices in performance and tuning
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Performance characterization for key vCloud Director operations
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Behavior with low bandwidth and high latency networks
vCloud Director Architecture
Figure 1 shows the deployment architecture for vCloud Director. You can access vCloud Director from a Web
browser or through the VMware vCloud API. Multiple vCloud Director server instances (cells) can be deployed
with a shared database. In the current 1.0 release, only the Oracle database is supported. A vCloud Director server
instance can connect to one or multiple VMware vCenter™ Server instances.
Figure 1. VMware vCloud Director High Level Architecture
VMware vCloud Director 1.0
vCloud Director
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