Architecture of the VMware vCloud integration

The new cloud topology related integration with vCloud Director is effected through a component that consumes vCloud Director topology on the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server. This component queries vCloud Director to retrieve data about the cloud resources and creates the same cloud resources in Infrastructure Management. After you integrate Infrastructure Management with vCloud Director using the pw FullCloudOpsSupport -a VCLOUD command, perform the necessary configuration tasks, the cloud resources are displayed in the navigation tree of the operator console.

The following cloud resources are displayed:

  • Provider vDC
  • Organization vDC

(Click the graphic to expand it)

  vlcoud_resources.PNG

Provider virtual datacenter

A provider virtual datacenter (provider vDC) is a logical grouping of the compute and storage resources. The provider vDC groups together a set of VMware ESXi host systems and a set of one or more datastores associated with the set of host systems.

Organization virtual datacenter

An organization virtual datacenter (organization vDC) is a container used to deploy VMware vApps. It is created using resources taken from a selected Provider vDC, and is a description of the way resources are allocated and used by a VMware vCloud Director Organization.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*