SETTING UP A PRIVATE CLOUD USING VMWARE VCLOUD DIRECTOR

BY GREG JERNEGAN BRANDON SIMMONS

Problems

Networking Server Acquiring Licenses Downloads VmworkStation 7.1 Windows 2008 R2 Server Enterprise Edition Configuring Oracle ESXi CentOS

Networking Server

Troubles installing Vmware Mapping the Host CD drive to the

VMWare Client

Acquiring Licenses

Downloads

VmworkStation 7.1

Version 8 Missing Team Feature

Windows 2008 R2 Server Enterprise Edition

Ram Issues 4G 6G

Guide Miss Match Configuration of Vmware Setting up Domain Controller Configuration of DNS

Configuring Oracle

ESXi

CentOS

Conclusion

The guide was very vaguely written Too many issues conflicted with one another

for proper communication Failed communication across machines in

cloud b/c of various problems and versions not matching up

Attempted to solve issues and rewrite problems in guide on how it should work but failed to do so.

Made adjustments accordingly to combat each issue and make them a whole

References

https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/np/survey.php?p=free-esxi5&lp=default

http://www.hypervizor.com/2010/09/video-guide-taking-vmware-vcloud-director-for-a-spin-and-on-the-go/

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/x86_64/ https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/?p=vcloud-directo

r15&lp=default