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Control System Admin Access to VMware Cloud Director
When VMware Cloud Director is deployed in public environment setup it is a good practice to restrict the system admin access only for specific networks so no brute force attack can be triggered...
View ArticleNon-elastic Allocation Pool VDC with Flex?
This came up on provider Slack and I want to preserve it for future. Question: Can the provider create Flex type Org VDC where the tenant would get allocation of certain CPU capacity (in GHz) and they...
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Multitenant Logging with VMware Cloud Director
Topic of multitenant logging in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) especially with NSX-T came up recently in multiple conversations, so I will summarize the capabilities and options as they are today. Audit...
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Metering External Network Traffic with NSX-T
It is common for service providers to meter internet traffic consumption of their tenants. In NSX-V environment you could get any interface statistics of an Edge Service Gateway via NSX API or vCloud...
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VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager 1.4
VMware has just released VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager version 1.4. I have blogged about the product in the past. I have been testing the version 1.4 in my lab and must say it is now...
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Enhanced Security for Cross vCenter Operations in VMware Cloud Director
Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 VM and vApp operations that happen across Provider VDCs backed by different vCenter Server instances require that both vCenter Server trust each other...
View ArticleVMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 Appliance Upgrade Notes
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 (VCD) has just been released and with it comes also the change of the appliance internal PostgreSQL database from version 10 to 14 (as well as replication manager...
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New Networking Features in VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1
The recently released new version of VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 brings quite a lot of new features. In this article I want to focus on those related to networking. External Networks on Org VDC...
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Legacy API Login Endpoint Removed in VCD 10.5
A brief heads up note that with the release of VMware Cloud Director 10.5 and its corresponding API version 38.0 the legacy API endpoint POST /api/sessions has been removed. It has been announced for...
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What Are VMware Cloud Director Three Personas?
Introduction Warning: Alpha/experimental feature content follows If you have installed VMware Cloud Director 10.5 you might have noticed a new disabled Feature Flag functionality called Three...
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How to Scale Up NSX Advanced Load Balancer Cloud In VCD?
VMware Cloud Director relies on NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) integration to offer load balancing as a service to tenants – more on that here. This article discusses a particular workaround to...
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VMware Cloud Director In-place Migration from NSX-V to NSX-T
VMware NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director is a tool that automates migration of NSX-V backed Org VDCs to NSX-T backed provider VDC (PVDC). It is a side-by-side migration that requires standing up...
View ArticleOpen Source Repository for VMware NSX Migration for VMware Cloud Director
With the upcoming end-of-life for the VMware NSX Migration fo VMware Cloud Director that has been announced here the source code and all the released builds are now available publicly on Calsoft...
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New Networking Features in VMware Cloud Director 10.6
VMware Cloud Director 10.6 has been released yesterday. It is quite a big release with lots of new functionality especially related to three-tier tenancy model and catalog distribution, but in this...
View ArticleBroadcom Internal Enterprise Private Cloud
This is what I have been working on recently – Broadcom own internal private cloud backed by VMware Cloud Foundation and Cloud Director.
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Building Nested Labs in VMware Cloud Director
One of the great capabilities of VMware Cloud Director is to build nested labs for development, testing, education or demonstration purposes. VMworld Hands on Labs used this capability for ages....
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How to Upgrade VMware Cloud Director to non-GA version with VCPLCM
VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager (VCPLCM) greatly simplifies upgrades of VMware Cloud Director. However, out of the box its interop bundle manifests support and are aware of only GA versions of...
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Workarounds for AVX-512 vSAN 8.0 Data Corruption Issue
In some older releases of vSAN there is an issue where if applications are using AVX-512 CPU instructions data corruption can occur. This was first reported by customers using DB2 but can occur with...
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Running Plex Media Server in a VM
This is a description on how to setup Plex Media Server to run as a virtual machine on vSphere. I am using Linux distribution and exposing CPU integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 for accelerated...
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Extending VCD Media Catalog Storage with vSAN
VMware Cloud Director stores ISO catalog media in a directory structure on one or more datastores backing the storage policy assigned to the catalog. The directory structure looks like this: <VCD...
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