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vCloud Director – vCenter Server Relationship
vCloud Director as a cloud management platform needs resources to provision the target workloads to. These resources are provided by vCenter Server (compute, storage, networks) and NSX Manager...
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Postman and vCloud Director 9.5 Access Token Authentication
Quick post on how to configure Postman to use the new vCloud API 31.0 bearer token authentication instead of the deprecated authorization token header. Create your environment if you have not done yet...
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vCloud Director 9.5 and VMware Identity Manager Integration
About six months ago I blogged about VMware Identity Manager (VIDM) federation with vCloud Director. That article is still fully valid (and start there if you have not read it yet), however with the...
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vCloud OpenAPI – Large Payload Issue with Load Balancer
With vCloud Director version 9 new API (cloudapi) based on OpenAPI specification has been introduced next to the legacy based XML API. In vCloud Director 9.5 API Explorer enables consumption of the API...
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With vCloud Director 9.5 VMware for the first time released vCloud Director in fully supported appliance format. It is the first iteration of longer process to provide the whole solution in the...
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vSphere Replication 8.1.1: vcta Issue
VMware has recently released vCloud Availability 2.0.1.1 update that adds vCloud Director 9.5.0.1 compatibility. The tenant needs to install vSphere Replication 8.1.1 which supports vSphere 6.7U1 all...
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IPv6 Support Overview in vCloud Director 9.5
vCloud Director version 9.5 is the first release to provide networking IPv6 support. In this article I want to go into little bit more detail on the level of IPv6 functionality than was in my What’s...
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Resource Consumption of Org VDC Allocation Types
The reference table below summarizes how different vCloud Director Org VDC allocation types consume vSphere resources. In other words: how a choice of allocation model for a particular Org VDC and its...
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Upgrade PostgreSQL version 9 to 10
I had to perform multiple PostgreSQL database upgrades from version 9 to version 10. The database was used for vCloud Director but I believe it is generic enough for other purposes. The base operating...
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PostgreSQL: Beware of the bloat!
During the last weekend my vCloud Director lab died. And the reason was PostgreSQL DB filled up all the disk space. How could that happen in my small lab with one running vApp? PostgreSQL database when...
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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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vCenter Server Issue: Recent Tasks Show xxx.label
I had an annoying issue in my lab. Some time ago when I performed vSphere 6.7 PSC convergence my vCenter would stop displaying proper names of tasks in the vSphere Clients UI (both Flex and H5) and...
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vCloud Director Federation with IBM Cloud Identity
IBM Cloud Identity is a cloud SaaS Single Sign-On solution supporting multifactor authentication and identity governance. In this article I will describe how to integrate it with vCloud Director, where...
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What’s New in vCloud Director 9.7
With an impressive cadence after less than 6 months there is a new major release of vCloud Director – version 9.7. As usual, I will go into the new features from the technical perspective and provide...
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vCloud Director Appliance – Phone Home Configuration
All VMware software contains Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) feature also known as Phone Home. You can read here what it does, but in general it sends VMware over the internet...
View ArticlePatching vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance
vCloud Director 9.7.0.1 patch has just been released and it is the first opportunity to patch the appliance edition of vCloud Director. Let me describe the process. I have three appliance deployment...
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vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance Tips
About half a year ago I published blog post with similar title related to vCloud Director 9.5 appliance. The changes between appliance version 9.5 and 9.7 are so significant therefore I am dedicated a...
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Load Balancing vCloud Director with NSX-T
I just have had a chance for the first time to set up vCloud Director installation that was fronted by NSX-T based load balancer (version 2.4.1). In the past I have blogged how to load balance vCloud...
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vCloud Director Object Storage Extension – Deep Look
VMware released last week another product that extends vCloud Director and enables Cloud Service Providers to offer additional services on top of vCloud Director out-of-the-box IaaS. Where vCloud...
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vCloud Director – Storage IOPS Management
It is a little known fact that besides compute (capacity and performance), storage capacity and external network throughput rate, vCloud Director can also manage storage IOPS (input / output or read...
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