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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

vCenter Server

vCenter Database

ESX/ESXi Hosts

vCloud Director Cells

vCloud Director

Web Interface

vCloud Director

Database

HTTPS

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