Understanding how the different vCloud types impact the design

There is a great deal of difference between a cloud you design purely for automation purposes and one that is a self-service one.

Getting ready

We need an empty vCloud.

How to do it...

Let's show the difference in creating the two different clouds. This is not intended to cover every use case, rather it will help in the understanding. There are basically two main types of clouds you can optimize a cloud design toward: Automation or Self-Service. The following table explains them:

Automation vCloud

Self-Service vCloud

  • Organizations are environments. Organizations represent different environments such as Prod and Dev or France and Germany.
  • All organizations will be created without LDAP ...

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