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Custom Links in the H5 vCloud Director Portal
Just a quick post to elaborate on the feature to add custom links into the H5 vCloud Director Portal that I very briefly mentioned in my What’s New in vCloud Director 9.7 blog post. The custom links...
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What’s New in vCloud Director 10
With clockwork efficiency after less than 6 months there a is new major release of vCloud Director – version 10. As usual, I will try to summarize all the new functionality compared to the previous...
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vCloud Director 10: NSX-T Integration
Intro vCloud Director relies on NSX network virtualization platform to provide on-demand creation and management of networks and networking services. NSX for vSphere has been supported for long time...
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vCloud Director H5 UI Error: 431 Request Header Fields Too Large
This is just a short blog post to describe an issue you might get with the tenant or portal HTML UI in vCloud Director where you will see errors in the browser related to request header fields too...
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VCSA Convergence: Failed to Get RPMs
One of my vSphere 6.7 U3 environments I am managing was still using external Platform Services Controller (PSC) from times when it was the prescribed architecture. That is no longer the case so to...
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vCloud Director Object Storage Extension Reference Design
Just a quick announcement that a vCloud Director Object Storage Extension Reference Design that I wrote is now available at this link. It deep dives into the use cases, architecture, includes...
View ArticlevCloud Director with TLS-only Connection with External Database
Very brief blog post to document how to install vCloud Director with external database that does not support plain text connections. In general the process is to do the initial set up with plain text...
View ArticleAutomate Let’s Encrypt Certificates – Part 2
Some time ago I blogged about how I automate acquisition of Let’s Encrypt Certificates for my lab (NSX + vCloud Director) with PowerShell. The old script no longer works due to some changes on Let’s...
View ArticlePowerCLI: Open vCloud Director VM in Standalone VM Console
A short Powershell script I wrote to demonstrate how to open vCloud Director VM console in the (Windows) Standalone VM Console. $vm = get-CIVM 'CentOS7' $vmrcPath = "C:\Program Files...
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vSAN File Services with vCloud Director
vSphere 7 is now generally available and with it came also new vSAN update that introduces vSAN File Service. Cormac Hogan has good overview of the feature on his blog so definitely head there first to...
View ArticleProtected: How to Migrate vCloud Director from NSX-V to NSX-T
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NSX-T 2.4: Force Local Account Login
NSX-T supports Role Based Access Control by integrating with VMware Identity Manager which provides access to 3rd party Identity Sources such as LDAP, AD, SAML2, etc. When NSX-T version 2.3 is...
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What’s New in Cloud Director 10.1
And it is time for another What’s New in (v)Cloud Director blog post. If you are not up to date you can find the older articles for versions 10, 9.7, 9.5 and 9.1 here. Let us start with the “important”...
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VMware Cloud Director 10.1: NSX-T Integration
This is an updated blog post of the original vCloud Director 10: NSX-T Integration to include all VMware Cloud Director 10.1 related updates. Intro VMware Cloud Director relies on NSX network...
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How to Migrate VMware Cloud Director from NSX-V to NSX-T
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management solution is built on top of the underlying compute and networking platforms that virtualize the physical infrastructure. For the compute and storage part...
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VMware Cloud Director: Push Notifications in Tenant Context
In VMware Cloud Director 10.1 (VCD) the organization users can subscribe to event and task push notifications which might be useful if the tenant needs to keep track of the activity in the cloud,...
View ArticlevCloud Director 9.7 JMS Certificate Issue
Are you still on vCloud Director 9.7 (VCD) in multi-cell configuration? Then you are susceptible to Java Message Service (JMS) certificate expiration issue. Read on. Background In multi-cell set up VCD...
View ArticleEnable MAC Learning as Default on vSphere Distributed Switch
This short PowerCLI script will change the vSphere Distributed Switch default port group configuration to enable MAC learning policy. This means every port group on such switch inherits this...
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VMware Cloud Director on VMware Cloud Foundation
There has been more and more interest lately among service providers in usage of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as the underlying virtualization platform in their datacenter. VCF is getting more and...
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Load Balancing with Avi in VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 is adding network load balancing (LB) functionality in NSX-T backed Organization VDCs. It is not using the native NSX-T load balancer capabilities but instead relies on Avi...
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