Installation of VMware cloud connector is very simple. We needed a PC with at least Internet Explorer 7 and our version of vSphere had to be 4.X (must be using vCenter). Secondly, we had import an OVF file which contained the VCC virtual appliance. Once that was imported into our infrastructure, we launched the VM, setup the network connection and user names and passwords.

Next, we had to connect the appliance to our vCenter by visiting a Web running on the VCC virtual appliance, which allowed us to register the vSphere plug-in to use in the vSphere client.

But all was not entirely glorious. The GUI doesn't update well when outside changes are made to vCloud Director. For example, we created a new catalog in vCloud Director at BlueLock, and it didn't show up until we restarted the entire vSphere client rather than refreshed data about the object that had changed.

VMware says that's how it's supposed to work, but we're betting they change it because it's really inconvenient. The Reload Data command, used on objects to refresh the observation of their state, doesn't work either. OK, VCC is 1.0.