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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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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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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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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