Chapter 3. Better vApps
In this chapter, we will be looking more closely at vApps by covering the following recipes:
- Proper vApp start-up and shutdown
- Adding a VM to a vApp
- Importing a vApp into vCloud
- Exporting a vApp from vCloud
- Creating a sandbox environment
- Using Guest Customization with pre and post deploy
- Using PowerShell or Perl to perform Guest Customization tasks
- Sharing a vApp
- Joining VMs automatically to domains
- Using vApp maintenance mode
Introduction
One thing that needs to be said about vApps is that they actually come in two completely different versions: the vSphere vApp and the vCloud vApp.
vSphere and vCloud vApps
The vSphere vApp concept was introduced in vSphere 4.0 as a container for VMs. In vSphere, a vApp is essentially a resource pool ...
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