In this chapter, we have installed VMware vCloud Director and performed a basic configuration of it. We have successfully installed and configured vCloud Director. Also, we looked into the basic security hardening aspects. We discussed basic security aspects of vCloud Director systems. This security aspect includes the user and different security roles, integrating different types of LDAP servers, and its options at various levels, which include the system level and the organization level.
In the next chapter, we will talk about VMware the vCloud Networking and Security App, and how we can integrate it to vCloud Director. We will also discuss the installation steps of the vCloud Networking and Security App, the vCloud Networking and Security App firewall management, and flow monitoring.