VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration

Chapter 9

Using vApps

In this chapter, you will learn to:

• Import Virtual Appliances
• Create Your Own vApps
• Maintain vApps
  • Setting the Start Order
  • Using IP Pools
  • Using IP Assignment
  • Modifying vApp Product Information

As vSphere has developed, the term vApp has come to mean many different things. Some refer to any virtualized workload as a virtual application, or vApp, whereas others use vApp to refer to a VM that has been exported to an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) template. With the release of vSphere 4.1, VMware extended the vApp concept to a next level. A vApp is now a virtual container similar to a resource pool. A vApp can contain one or more VMs and is managed as a single logical unit. The modern vApp can be powered on or off and ...