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VCD Cell Management Tool without Administrator Credentials
I just learned from engineering neat trick related to how cell management tool can be invoked without specifying administrator credentials. The issue is that currently you cannot use LDAP account to...
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vCloud Connector and Offline Data Transfer
Offline Data Transfer (ODT) is a feature of vCloud Connector that allows migration of VMs from customer own datacenter to vCloud Air with NAS appliance which is shipped via regular mail. The point is...
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vRealize Automation with Multiple Cloud Endpoints
One of my customers had deployed true hybrid vRealize Automation with multiple cloud endpoints: vCloud Air and internal vCloud Director and AWS. I was called in to troubleshoot strange issue where...
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Tracking Catalog Template Deployments in vCloud Director
A customer asked me how to track deployments of certain catalog templates. This is mainly for licensing or charging purposes where the provider creates and maintains (patches) OS templates which the...
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Which Cloud VMs do not have VM Tools Installed?
Quick PowerCLI one-liner which displays all VMs running in vCloud Director together with their VM Tools version. Get-CIVM |Select Name, {$_.Org.Name}, {$_.OrgVdc.Name},...
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vCloud Director with NSX: Edge Cluster
I see more and more that new and existing vCloud Director deployments leverage NSX as the networking component instead of the legacy vShield / vCloud Network and Security (vCNS). The main reasons are...
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vCloud Director with NSX: Edge Cluster (Part 2)
In my previous article vCloud Director with NSX: Edge Cluster I described various design options of NSX Edge Cluster in vCloud Director environment. In this article I would like to discuss additional...
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Complex Nested Lab Running in vCloud Air
My colleague George Kobar recently wrote blog post about running Nested ESXi on vCloud Air. The gist of the article is the description how to solve networking issues around nested virtualization that...
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Layer 2 VPN to the Cloud
When VMware NSX 6.0 came out about more than one year ago, one of the new great features it had on top of the its predecessor VMware vCloud Network and Security (vCNS) was L2VPN service on Edge Service...
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vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers
One of the reasons I have been quiet on my blog lately was today released for public: vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers. If you are designing vCloud Director based public cloud I hope...
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Federation of Multiple vCloud Director Instances
While vCloud Director offers impressive scalability with possibility to manage up to 20 vCenter Servers there are valid reasons why service providers deploy multiple vCloud Director instances due to...
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vCloud Director 5.6 with NSX – Edge Redeploy Gotcha
Just a short post about an issue with combination of vCloud Director 5.6 and NSX. In case you are upgrading vCNS to NSX and are using vCloud Director 5.6 you are still affected by the Edge Redeploy bug...
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vCloud Director IPv6 Support
With depletion of public IPv4 addresses service providers are starting to consider offering IPv6 addresses for their tenants workloads. Let me describe what are the options related to IPv6 support for...
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Unattended Installation of vCloud Director
In vCloud Director 8.0 many enhancements were made to enable unattended installation. This is useful to eliminate manual steps to speed up installation process as well as ensure identical configuration...
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Reboot All Hosts in vCloud Director
vCloud Director based clouds support non-disruptive maintenance of the underlying physical hosts. They can be patched, upgraded or completely exchanged without any impact on the customer workloads all...
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vCloud Networking and Security Upgrade to NSX in vCloud Director Environments
Just a short post to link a new whitepaper I wrote about upgrade of vCloud Networking and Security to NSX in vCloud Director Environment. It discusses: interoperability and upgrade path impact of...
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NSX L2 Bridging Options
I had recently multiple discussions about NSX and its Layer 2 bridging capabilities with various service providers. Let me summarize some important points and considerations when you would use which....
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vCloud Director: Share Console Proxy IP with UI/API IP Address
New vCloud DIrector 8.10 (read eight dot ten) is out and with it some little neat features. Let me quickly talk about one of them – the ability to run vCloud Director cell with just 1 IP address. In...
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Import Running VM to vCloud Director
Another nice little feature in the recently released vCloud Director 8.10 (read eight dot ten) is the ability to import running VM under vCloud Director management. In the past the vCloud system...
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Query Guest OS Customization Status with vCloud API
Very useful new feature of vCloud Director 8.10 is the possibility to query with vCloud API guest OS customization status. Typical use case is when the tenant runs custom orchestration to deploy VM and...
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