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vCloud Availability: Replication of Powered-off VM
Just a short post about a feature I recently learned. In vSphere Replication when you are configuring replication of powered-off VM you will get the following message: The virtual machine is not...
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How to Configure Additional VM Metrics in vCloud Director
vCloud Director already for some time (since version 5.6) provides to tenants basic set of VM metrics. Until vCloud Director 9.0 they had to be retrieved with vCloud API, however now the users can...
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Missing Licensing Metrics in vCloud Director 9.0
You might have noticed that vCloud Director 9.0 no longer displays licensing metrics. This was a conscious decision as already for some time the licensing is handled externally by vCloud Usage Meter...
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vSphere Replication Issue with ESXi 6.5U1
This is a quick post to highlight an issue vSphere Replication has with ESXi 6.5U1 for To-the-cloud replication. Only customers that use vSphere Replication for DR or migrations to the cloud endpoints...
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vCloud Director vApp Runtime Lease Expiration Action
In vCloud Director it is possible to configure vApp leases. The maximums are set by system admin at Organization level (in Policies), which can be lowered by Org Admin (at org level) and set by vApp...
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Layer 2 VPN to the Cloud – Part II
Almost 3 years ago I have published an article how to set up layer 2 VPN between on-prem vSphere environment and vCloud Director Org VDC. As both vCloud Director and NSX evolved quite a bit since to...
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vRealize Orchestrator Client with 4K Screen
This is a quick tip for those that want to run vRealize Orchestrator client on 4K screen in Windows 10 and cannot see anything because the font is so tiny and does not scale. The full credit goes to...
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What’s New in vCloud Availability 2.0.1
Minor patch of vCloud Availability 2.0.1 was released last week. Besides many bug fixes, improved documentation and support for Cassandra version 3.x I want to highlight two undocumented features and...
View ArticleWhat’s New in vCloud Director 9.1
vCloud Director version 9.1 has been released. It has been just 6 months since the previous release (9.0) so VMware is delivering on its promise of multiple yearly releases in 6 months cadence. In this...
View ArticleLimit Maximum vCPU/RAM Configuration of vCloud Director VM
Some times ago I wrote about an undocumented feature that allows to limit maximum disk size for VM in vCloud Director. I was asked numerous times if there is similar setting for vCPU and RAM maximums....
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vCloud Director on AWS
My colleague Lyubomir Lyubenov from VMware OneCloud team (OneCloud is internal huge vCloud Director based cloud for field enablement) recently published VCDonAWS CloudFormation templates with which you...
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vCloud Director Federation with VMware Identity Manager
Although in the past I have already blogged about vCloud Director federation with VMware Workspace and Microsoft AD FS I still have not wrote a guide how to achieve organization federation with VMware...
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vRealize Business for Cloud API Authentication
vRealize Business for Cloud (vRBC) can be used to meter vSphere, NSX and vCloud Director endpoints. I have struggled a bit to obtain necessary metering data via API due to very brief documentation, so...
View ArticlevCloud Availability – Cloud Proxy with Multiple NICs
Cloud Proxy is important component of vCloud Availability solution that sits in DMZ and tunnels replicated traffic in and out of the provider’s environment. For deep dive on the traffic flows see this...
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vCloud Availability – Updated Whitepaper
I have updated my vCAT-SP vCloud Availability whitepaper to reflect changes that came with vCloud Availability 2.0 and vSphere 6.5/6.7. It can be downloaded from the vCAT-SP site from the Storage and...
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Embedding vCloud Availability Portal into vCloud Director UI
Some time ago I blogged about the possibility to link to vCloud Availability Portal directly from vCloud Director UI (here and here). This was done by inserting custom links into the vCloud Director...
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vCloud Director Service Library – Change AD Password
vCloud Director version 9.1 introduced the ability to easily create custom services and display them in the new user interface as tiles under Service Library. The services are created in vRealize...
View ArticlevCloud Availability – Resizing Disk of Protected VM
A customer asked how to resize a disk of very large VM (file server) which is protected with vCloud Availability and thus replicated to the cloud. It is not straight forward as the underlying...
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What’s New in vCloud Director 9.5
After vCloud Director 9.1 release in March we have new version 9.5 out! Here are links to release notes and a whitepaper describing its new features. Let me also go through the new features here so I...
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How to Change vCloud Director Installation ID
During installation of vCloud Director you must supply installation ID from range 1-63. Its purpose is very similar to vCenter Server ID, it is used for generation of unique MAC addresses for VMs...
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