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VMware vFabric Application Director

Automated Provisioning for Applications in the Cloud

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What Is VMware vFabric Application Director?

VMware vFabric Application Director dramatically transforms the automation of application provisioning and release. It provides a new approach to deployment automation and selfservice provisioning for multitier applications in hybrid cloud environments. Application Director standardizes how applications are designed and built, enabling customers to model once, then deploy and update applications across multiple clouds and development environments. Starting with a drag-and-drop canvas, users can layer software, scripts, congurations and dependencies atop standard virtual-machine templates directly from their cloud provider library. These application topologies, called application blueprints, can be stored for reuse and deployed easily to hybrid cloud environments. Application Director also has an integrated online application store that provides easy access to hundreds of best-practice application components. These components enable teams to build and customize applications, reducing cost and accelerating time to value. To deliver a complete application life cycle, Application Director is preintegrated with VMware vFabric Application Performance Manager. Together with this product, Application Director offers a solution that streamlines the process of application deployment through governance, development and maintenance. It unites developer and operations efforts with a common language for building, deploying, monitoring and optimizing high-performance business-critical applications.

VMware vFabric Application Director provides a new approach to deployment automation and selfservice provisioning for multitier applications in hybrid cloud environments. It enables customers to gain maximum agility by streamlining the application deployment and release process for any application on any cloud.
KEY BENEFITS

Delivers maximum agility and efficiency by accelerating, streamlining and optimizing application deployment and release management through logical application blueprints leveraging preapproved, standardized OS and middleware components Enables hybrid cloud deployments, delivering unmatched exibility by supporting hybrid clouds (including Amazon EC2) and enabling teams to port applications seamlessly, moving applications between clouds without rewriting them Accelerates time to value and reduces cost by automating the application release process across multiple development environments and clouds and enabling use of existing best-practice application infrastructure services Empowers customers with choice by letting them select their scripting language (Python, Puppet, Ruby, etc.) Enables a DevOps model by providing an integrated performance-monitoring solution for closed-loop application provisioning and monitoring, allowing tighter and more effective cooperation between development and operations teams

How Is VMware vFabric Application Director Used?

Application Director transforms cloud infrastructure, making it highly reusable and available through self-service for application teams. By standardizing infrastructure and application components, and abstracting application-specific deployment logic, these application teams can become truly untethered from the underlying cloud infrastructure and provision any applications across any cloud infrastructure with ease.

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Key Features
Accelerated and Repeatable Application Provisioning Graphical drag-and-drop canvas for creating application blueprints that make planning and deploying complex applications easy Self-service provisioning Reusable best-practice application architectures across teams, organizations and clouds Comprehensive deployment execution plans to do the following: Call out custom scripts to x security-related vulnerabilities during deployments Assist in troubleshooting deployment failures Ready-to-use, out-of-the-box middleware installation and conguration services based on best practices Integrated application store providing easy access to hundreds of best-practice application components and blueprints, development environments, and business productivity applications Optimized for vFabric middleware stack
Figure 2. Application Director enables the life cycle for any application on any cloud.

Comprehensive Application Release Automation Simplied, accelerated build and release of applications through logical application blueprints leveraging preapproved, standardized OS and middleware components Simplied processes for ongoing application maintenance and upgrades (execution of conguration, scale and code changes) as well as for application retirement Closed-loop system for autoscaling of applications in response to changing business needs Preintegrated with vFabric Application Performance Manager to manage new application rollouts or ongoing updates and changes; supports emerging DevOps teams in their journey to enable business innovation delivery through accelerated deployment

How to Buy
vFabric Application Director is available with two editions to t your needs: vFabric Application Director for Provisioning - Gain self service deployment automation for multi-tier applications on vSphere enabled clouds.
Figure 1. Application Director provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop canvas for users to register cloud providers, select virtual-machine templates and then customize application topologies using a convenient catalog of software and scripts.

Any Application on Any Cloud True separation between applications and infrastructure enables reuse of the same blueprint on multiple virtual and hybrid cloud infrastructures (including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2) The software supports any application stackpackaged applications (including all Microsoft applications) and custom applications (built in frameworks such as Java, .NET and Ruby) The open and extensible architecture provides enhanced exibility to select your choice of scripting languagefor example, Perl, Shell, PowerShell, Chef, Puppet

vFabric Application Director for Release Automation Gain initial application deployment and ongoing application updates for multi-tier applications on hybrid clouds.

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