Configuring networking in a vCloud vApp

Before you can boot the vApps you just imported, you need to define networking for the vApp to connect to. While storage and storage policies are automatically pulled over from vSphere, the networking for vCloud requires a lot of additional configuration. This makes sense because connectivity to the services running on a vCloud have a lot of requirements, including private VLANs and Edge services to NAT addresses that are private to public or external facing networks. Some deployments might need to connect to preprovisioned VLANs directly to a virtual datacenter for client connectivity on the private-side of the cloud.

vCloud Networking can become an extremely deep subject and stray far beyond the scope of this book. However, there are some basic configuration things that are universal to vCloud Virtual Datacenters, and those are the topics this recipe will cover.

Again, the highest levels of configuration for vCloud Networking do not have native PowerCLI...