vCloud Director 1.5 provides faster provisioning using linked clones, improved security and isolation with expanded vShield integration, and support for hybrid cloud with integration between vCloud and 3rd party distributed switches, SQL Server database support, and support for vSphere 5. Key features include linked clone provisioning, vCloud messages for integration, blocking tasks, 5-tuple firewalls, and IPSec VPN configuration.

1. What’s New in vCloud Director 1.5
Most Agile Access to Secure Isolation and The Only Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Simple Management Infrastructure
• Fast Provisioning (Linked • vCloud Messages • vShield Edge VPN Integration
Clones) • Microsoft SQL Server Support
• vApp Custom Guest Properties • Expanded vCloud API and
• 3rdpary distributed switch SDK
support • vSphere 5 support
• Globalization

2. Fast Provisioning using Linked Clones
Overview
• Provisions new VMs from a template
without replicating the entire image
• Instead, links the images (clones) so that
common elements are stored only once
vmd vmd vmd
k k k
Benefits
• Dramatically speeds up provisioning time
Template from >2 minutes to <5 seconds
vmdk
• Reduces storage footprint (and cost) by
over 60%

3. Linked Clones in vCD
Full Clone (Default)
Linked clones can span
• multiple datastores
A Entire disk copied B • multiple vCenter Servers
New independent VM
Fast Provisioning
A
No disk copy A’
Delta disks spawned
Delta Disk
Delta Disk
Base Disk (READ ONLY)

4. Enabling Linked Clones
 Enable fast provisioning on an organization virtual datacenter with
a single mouse click

5. Manage your cloud networking using standard tools
vCloud Director 1.5
3rd party distributed switch
REST API
vShield
Manager
Network vendor tools
Administration/Mo
nitoring
Network
admins

6. vCloud Messages
Overview
• Connect vCloud Director to enterprise
systems through messaging to rapidly
create end-to-end system integrations
Benefits
• Integrate vCloud Director with existing IT
management tools
• Receive updates for vCloud Director tasks
CMDB IPAM Ticketing

7. Notifications and Blocking tasks
 Over 100+ tasks have notifications available
 Certain tasks can be configured to block for external input before
completing
• Browse the category of tasks and select the operation (e.g. vApp Power
operations, Virtual Data Center Operations)
• Browse to System -> Administration -> Blocking Tasks

8. Microsoft SQL Server Support
Overview
• Build a vCloud Director environment u
sing a Microsoft SQL database for all
cloud configuration data
Benefits
• Leverage existing investments and
database skill sets
• Reduce the cost of building a cloud

9. List of supported databases
 Supported Databases
• Oracle 10g Std/Ent Release 2
• Oracle 11g Std/Ent
• Oracle 11g R2 New
• Microsoft SQL 2005 Std/Ent SP4 New
• Microsoft SQL 2008 Exp/Std/Ent (64-bit) New

10. vSphere 5 support
vCloud Director 1.5 Overview
• vCloud Director adds support for
vSphere 5 platform
vCenter Server with Auto
Deploy • vSphere Auto Deploy support
• Support for virtual hardware v8
Image Profiles Host Profiles • 32 vCPU
• 1 TB vRAM
Benefits
• Faster deployment of physical
vSphere vSphere vSphere infrastructure
• Run the most demanding workloads in
vCloud Director

11. Expanded vShield Integration
Overview
• Integration with vShield IPSec VPN
capabilities through both API & UI
• Expanded firewall capabilities to include
Virtual Virtual
Datacenter: Datacenter: full 5-tuple firewalls
Remote
WAN Local
E E
d d
g g
e e Benefits
• Organization administrators can configure
private networking enclave connected
back to corporate datacenters
• 5-tuple firewalls allows fully flexible
network access management—control
source & destination.

12. IPSec VPN tunnel configuration types
 Tunnel to
vCloud 1 vCloud 2 network in
Org A Org A another
organization
Org Network VPN Org Network
Private/Public vCloud
 Tunnel to
Org B
network
in this
Org Network VPN Org Network organization
vCloud
Org C  Tunnel to
VPN Endpoint a remote
network
Org Network VPN