Top 10 Best Practices Architecting Applications for VMware Cloud (part 4)
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#7 Levarage vApp
vApp is a new addition to vSphere. It’s essentially a group of VMs that work together as a solution. You can manage them as a basic unit like a VM. It provides you higher level granularity for resource allocation and management.
This is an ideal container for your application if you have multiple virtual machines involved. They may or may not form a cluster, but are bundled together for a same goal.
The vApps are not only easily managed by the vSphere, but also imported and export as a bundle. Therefore you can easily move it without worrying what should be included while copying it.
VMware provides tools like VMware Studio using which you can create and configure vApps easily. The VMware Studio has Web based console, customization and build engine, build process automation with CLI (command line interface).
Other alternatives include:
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