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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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Enforce Maximum Duration for Cloud Director API Tokens
Recently released VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 adds support for enforcement of maximum duration of API Tokens. It is API only feature configured with the following call: PUT...
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Stateless Firewall Support in Cloud Director
With the new Broadcom licensing changes related to NSX only the stateless firewall is included in the base VCF/NSX license while statefull firewall needs to be licensed separately. VMware Cloud...
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GMKTec K8 Plus – vSphere Mini Lab
In an effort to downsize even more my home lab from Shuttle PCs that were (in the past) considered compact I decided to explore the impressive, powerfull and small GMKTec mini PCs. With NVMe drives...
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Quick Guide to VCF Automation for VCD Administrators
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) has been released and with it comes brand new Cloud Management Platform – VCF Automation (VCFA) which supercedes both Aria Automation and VMware Cloud Director (VCD)....
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Deploying VCF 9 in a Minilab
Recently released VCF 9 combines vSphere 9, NSX 9, new Lifecycle and Operational tooling via VCF Operations, Fleet Management and Logs and with brand new fully multitenant cloud management platform...
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VCF Automation – How to Create Provider Managed Blueprint
Content Hub in VCF Automation provides access to Content Libraries which store VM templates (OVA) and media (ISO), VM images (OVA templates), custom Orchestrator workflows and Blueprints. Blueprints...
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VCF 9 – Converting Brownfield Deployment
One of the ways how to start using VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is to convert existing vSphere environment. Let’s have a look what is the process. VCF Fleet VCF consists of a Fleet Management with one or...
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VCF 9 – Importing Brownfield Environment
In my previous blog post I described how you can convert existing brownfield vSphere 8 environment into your first VMware Cloud Foundation 9 instance including Fleet Management. In this article we...
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