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VCDNI to VXLAN Migration
vCloud Network Isolation (VCDNI or VCNI) is legacy mechanism to create overlay logical networks independently from physical networking underlay. It was originally used in VMware vCenter Lab Manager...
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vCloud Director 8.20: Orchestrated Upgrade
vCloud Director architecture consist of multiple cells that share common database. The upgrade process involves shutting down services on all cells, upgrading them, upgrading the database and starting...
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vCloud Director 8.20: Distributed Firewall
NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) is the most popular feature of NSX which enables microsegmenation of networks with vNIC level firewalls in hypervisor. For real technical deep dive into the feature I...
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vCloud Director 8.20: Granular Role Based Access Control
vCloud Director 8.20 introduces the possibility to create granular roles at tenant and system level. This is important for service providers who want to differentiate which tenants have access to...
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Architecting a VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Solution
Another vCloud Architecture Toolkit whitepaper that I authored was published on the vCAT SP website – it discusses how to architect vCloud Availability solution in large production scenarios. It is...
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Client Integration Plugin, vCloud Director and Compatible Browsers
Just a quick post to recap my experience with usage of Client Integration Plugin in vCloud Director and its compatibility with current browsers. Client Integration Plugin (CIP) is needed in vCloud...
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What’s New in Chargeback Manager 2.7.3
In March 2017 VMware released vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.7.3. The main reason why to upgrade to the new release is that it adds full support for vCloud Director 8.20. So what is new? From the...
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How to Export Running VM from vCloud Director
In the past I have wrote how to import running VM to vCloud Director: here and here. Today, I will describe how to export running VM. Let us first discuss why you would do it. There are several use...
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Org VDC Edge Gateway CPU/RAM Reservations
vCloud Director 8.20 allows deployment of Org VDC Edge Gateways in 4 different form factors from Compact to X-Large where each provides different level of performance and consumes different amount of...
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Defer to Identity Provider Role in vCloud Director
Besides traditional roles (Org Administrator, vApp Author, …) there is already for some time (as of vCloud Director 8.0) the possibility to assign to vCloud Director organization users a role called...
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How to Customize vCloud Director UI
Service providers who are offering additional services beyond vanilla vCloud Director IaaS were asking how to add links to them in the existing (Flex) vCloud Director UI. vCloud Director 8.20 provides...
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SSO for vCloud Availability Portal UI
This is a quick followup on my yesterday’s blog post that discussed how to customize vCloud Director UI with additional links. vCloud Availability has separate Portal UI where the users can monitor...
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vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX-V and Log Insight Integration
Quick post about an issue I discovered in my lab during upgrade to NSX 6.3.3. This particular NSX version has a silent new feature that verifies if syslog configuration on Edges is correct. If the...
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vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Provider Update
The vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Provider website has been updated with new set of documents. All documents were re-branded with the new VMware Cloud Provider Program logos that replace the...
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vCloud Director 9: What’s New
VMware just released new version of vCloud Director – and it is a major release with version number 9.0. Its documentation has now been moved to VMware Docs website:...
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vCloud Director 9: Create VXLAN Network Pool
vCloud Director uses Network Pools to create programmatically on-demand L2 networking segments for Org VDC and vApp networks. Network pools can be based on VLANs, VXLAN, port groups and legacy...
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vCloud Director 9: NSX Distributed Logical Router
vCloud Director version 9 introduces support for the last major missing NSX feature – the distributed logical router (DLR). DLR provides optimized router which in distributed fashion performs routing...
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vCloud Director 9: SAML2 Federation for System Administrators
In the past in vCloud Director 8.20 (and older versions) system admins (the provider context) could use local, LDAP and vSphere SSO accounts. vCloud Director 9.0 now replaces vSphere SSO accounts with...
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vCloud Director 9: Customize Tenant UI
vCloud Director 9 introduces brand new HTML5 tenant user interface. It currently provides only limited set of operations: simplified workflow to create VMs without the need to create vApps view and...
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How To Disable Local System Administrator Accounts in vCloud Director
For some time there has been a hidden security feature in vCloud Director that allows disabling local system administrator accounts. During vCloud Director installation a default local system...
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