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v11 For Service Providers - VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal SSP Enhancements
When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went Generally Available on the 24th of February I posted the What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I bri...
v11 For Service Providers - Replication for VMware Cloud Director
When Veeam Backup & Replication v11 went Generally Available on the 24th of February I posted the What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I bri...
Backup & Replication v11 - What's In It For Service Providers
v11 was officially Launched and GA'ed last week meaning customers could get their hands on the next flagship release of Veeam Backup & Replication. Since the...
Happy 10th Birthday VMware Cloud Director!
It is crazy to think that we could celebrate (those of us brave enough to admit it) the birthday of the piece of software. Throughout modern history, softwar...
Backup & Replication v10a - Platform Support and Performance Enhancements!
Over the weekend, we released the v10a ( Build 10.0.1.4854 ) release of our flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication. This is the first major update to v...
First Thoughts - VMware Cloud Director Service
One of the early benefits of being part fo the vExpert Cloud Provider subprogram, was that we where given a chance to get a first look and use of Cloud Direc...
VMware Cloud Director CVE-2020-3956 - My Worst Nightmare Realized!
Before anything else... if you haven't patched your Cloud Director installations as per the below table... do it now! Product Version Running On CVE Identifi...
v10 Enhancements – vCloud Director Self Service Portal Backup Options
Version 10 of Veeam Backup & Replication right around the corner as we rapidly approach GA. The RTM has been out for our service provider partners for a coup...
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vCloud Director is no more... Long Live vCD! [VMware Cloud Director Service for VMC]
There was a very significant announcement at VMworld Barcelona overnight, with the unveiling of a new service targeted at Managed Service Providers. VMware C...
Mapping vCloud Director Backup Jobs to Self Service Portal Tenants
Since version 7 of Backup & Replication , Veeam has lead the way in regard to the protection of workloads running in vCloud Director. With version 7 Veeam fi...
Orchestration of NSX by Terraform for Cloud Connect Replication with vCloud Director
That is probably the longest title i've ever had on this blog, however I wanted to highlight everything that is contained in this solution. Everything above ...
Infrastructure as Code vs RESTful APIs ... A Working Example with Terraform and vCloud Director
Last week I wrote an opinion piece on Infrastructure as Code vs RESTful APIs . In a nutshell, I talked about how leveraging IaC instead of trying to code aga...
Quick Fix: Upgrading to vCloud Director 9.7 fails During Database Script Updates
While looking to upgrade one of my vCloud Director instances I came across an error during the database upgrade process which is the second step of updating ...
Update 4 for Service Providers - Targeting vCloud Director with Cloud Connect Replication
When Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 went Generally Available in late January I posted a What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I brie...
Quick Post - vCloud Director 9.5.0.3 Released as Critical Update
Late last week, on the same day as vCloud Director 9.7 was released to GA, an update was also released for vCloud Director 9.5.x which has been marked are cr...
Quick Post - vCloud Director 9.5.0.2 Released
While we wait for the upcoming release of vCloud Director 9.7 next month (after the covers where torn off the next release in a blog post last week by the vC...
Released: vCloud Director 9.5 - Full HTML5 Tenant UI, NSX-T Thoughts and More!
Last week VMware released vCloud Director 9.5 ( build 10266189 ) which builds on the 9.1 release that came out earlier this year . This continues to deliver ...
Quick Fix: Specified vCloud Director is not supported when trying to add vCD 9.1 to Veeam ONE
Back in May when VMware released vCloud Director 9.1 they also depreciated support for a number of older API versions: End of Support for Older vCloud API Ve...
Creating Policy Based Backup Jobs for vCloud Director Self Service Portal with Tenant Creation
For a long time Veeam has lead the way in regard to the protection of workloads running in vCloud Director. Veeam first released deep integration into vCD ba...
Adding Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate to vCloud Director Keystore
For the longest time the configuring of vCloud Director's SSL certificate keystore has been the thing that makes vCD admins shudder. There are lots of posts ...
Released: vCloud Director 9.1.0.1 - API Tweaks and Resolved Issues
There was a point release of vCloud Director 9.1 ( 9.1.0.1 Build 8825802 ) released last week, bringing with it an updated Java Runtime plus new API function...
Released: vCloud Director 9.1 - New HTML5 Features, vCD-CLI and more!
Overnight VMware released vCloud Director 9.1 ( build 7905680 ) which builds on the 9.0 release that came out last September. This continues to deliver on VM...
vCloud Director Tenant UI: Dude...Where is my VM Web Console?
As most of you should know buy now, vCloud Director 9.0 features a new HTML5 Tenant UI Portal which is not only very pretty, but also functional. As of the 9...
Released: vCloud Director 9.0.0.2 - Important Networking Fixes!
Last week VMware put out a new point release for vCloud Director 9.0 ( Build 7553273 ) for Service Providers. While there is nothing new in this release ther...
Awarded vExpert Cloud - A New vExpert Sub Program
Last week Corey Romero announced the inaugural members of the vExpert Cloud sub-program . This is the third vExpert sub-program following the vSAN and NSX pr...
Released: vCloud Director 8.10 and 8.20 Point Updates
Last week VMware snuck out two point releases for vCloud Director 8.10 and 8.20. For those still running those versions you now have 8.10.1.1 ( Build 6878548...
vCloud Director 9.0: Digging into the new Standalone VM Feature
vCloud Director 9.0 was released late last month and brought with it a number of big new features and enhancements. If you are interested in a overview of wh...
Enabling, Configuring and Viewing Metrics in vCloud Director 9.0
Last week I released a post on configuring Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.0 metrics . As a refresher, one of the cool features released in vCloud Director S...
Configuring Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.0 Metrics
One of the cool features released in vCloud Director SP 5.6.x was the ability to expose VM metrics that service providers could expose to their clients via a...
vCloud Director 9.0: Manual Quick fix for VXLAN Network Pool Error
vCloud Director 9.0, released last week has a bunch of new enhancements and a lot of those are focused around it's integration with NSX. Tom Fojta has a what...
Released: vCloud Director 9.0 - The Most Significant Update To Date!
Today is a good day! VMware have released to GA vCloud Director 9.0 ( build 6681978 ) and with it come the most significant feature and enhancements of any p...
What's in a name? VSPP to vCAN to VCPP
Prior to VMworld there where rumours floating around that the vCloud Air Network was going to undergo a name change and sure enough at VMworld 2017 in the US...
VMworld 2017: vCloud Air Network Again Out in Force
Last year saw a resurgence in vCloud related sessions at VMworld and the trend has continued this year at the 2017 event. Looking through the sessions at Par...
CPU Overallocation and Poor Network Performance in vCD - Beware of Resource Pools
For the longest time all VMware administrators have been told that resource pools are not folders and that they should only be used under circumstances where...
Worth a Repost: "VMware Doubles Down" vCloud Director 8.20
It seems that with the announcement last week that VMware was offloading vCloud Air to OVH people where again asking what is happening with vCloud Director.....
vCloud Air Sold to OVH - Final Thoughts On Project Zephyr
I've just spent the last fifteen minutes looking back through all my posts on vCloud Air over the last four or five years and given yesterday's announcement ...
vCloud Director SP 8.20 - NSX Advanced Networking Overview
Many, including myself thought that the day would never come where we would be talking about a new UI for vCloud Director...but a a month on from the 8.20 re...
Quick Fix: vCloud Director SP None of the Cells have a vCenter Proxy Service Running. SSL Protocol Fix
vCloud Director SP 8.20 was released a few weeks ago and I wanted to highlight an issue I ran into while testing of the BETA. I hadn't come across this issue...
Looking Beyond the Hyper-Scaler Clouds – Don’t Forget the Little Guys!
I’ve been on the road over the past couple of weeks presenting to Veeam’s VCSP partners and prospective partners here in Australia and New Zealand on Veeam’s...
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.20 with HTML5 Goodness!
This week, VMware released vCloud Director SP version 8.20 ( build 5070630 ) which marks the 8th Major Release for vCloud Director since 1.0 was released in ...
VCSP Important Notice: 9.5 Update 1 Is Out...With vSphere 6.5 Support!
Last Friday, we at Veeam made available for download Update 1 for Backup & Replication ( Build 9.5.0.823 ), Veeam One ( Build 9.5.0.3254 ) as well as for Bac...
First Look: ManageIQ vCloud Director Orchestration
Welcome to 2017! To kick off the year I thought I'd do a quick post on a little known product (at least in my circles) from Red Hat Inc called ManageIQ . I s...
Top Posts 2016
2016 is pretty much done and dusted and it's been an good year for Virtualization is Life! There was a more modest 70% increase in site visits this year comp...
OVFTool: vCloud Director OVA Upload PowerShell Script
Earlier this year I put together a quick and nasty PowerShell Script that exports a vApp from vCloud Director using the OVFTool ...for those that don't know ...
vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 UI Additions - Boot Options
Last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 Build 4655197 and while it was mainly a patch release there was one new feature added which was a couple ...
Veeam 9.5 - What's in it for Service Providers
Since Backup and Replication 7 Veeam have continued to develop new features in enhancements to support their Cloud and Service Provider community. This start...
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 Important Upgrade for Zerto Clients
This week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10.1 Build 4655197 . This is the sister build for vCD SP 8.0.2 and like that release, while there a a number o...
Worth a Repost: Debunking Three Common Myths Around vCloud Director #LongLivevCD
It seems that all with all the announcements of late around VMware's (re)shifting Hybrid Cloud strategy with Cross Cloud Foundation and VMware's partnership ...
VMware on AWS: vCloud Director and What Needs to be Done to Empower the vCAN
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS ...
VMware on AWS: Thoughts on the Impact to the vCloud Air Network
Last week VMware and Amazon Web Services officially announced their new joint venture whereby VMware technology will be available to run as a service on AWS ...
Released - vCloud Director SP 8.0.2 Important Upgrade for Zerto Clients
Last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.0.2 Build 4348775 . While there a a number of minor bug fixes in this release there is one important fix that ...
VCA-CLI for vCloud Director: New Networking Features
There is a lot of talk going around how IT Pros can more efficiently operate and consume Cloud Based Services…AWS has lead the way in offering a rich set of ...
The Anatomy of a vBlog Part 1: Building a Blogging Platform
Earlier this week my good friend Matt Crape sent out a Tweet lamenting the fact that he was having issues uploading media to WordPress...shortly after that t...
NSX Bytes: vCloud Director Can't Deploy NSX Edges
Over the weekend I was tasked with the recovery of a #NestedESXi lab that had vCloud Director and NSX-v components as part of the lab platform. Rather than b...
Cross Cloud: Why The VM Shouldn't Be The Base Unit of Measurement
I’ve been sitting on this topic since the VMworld 2016 US Keynote where VMware announced the Cross Cloud Architecture. I posted some raw thoughts the day aft...
VMworld 2016: Cross Cloud Platform - Raw Thoughts
I'm still trying to process the VMworld 2016 Day 1 Keynote in my mind...trying to make sense of the mixed messages that myself and others took away from the ...
VMworld 2016: Top Session Picks
VMworld 2016 is just around the corner (10 days and counting) and the theme this year is be_Tomorrow …which looks to build on the Ready for Any and Brave IT ...
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 3 – Storage Tiering and Storage Management
vCloud Director SP 8.10 has been out for a couple months now and the general buzz around this release has been extremely positive. The decision to expose the...
PowerCLI Script to Calculate VSAN vCAN Points Per Month
There is no doubt that new pricing introduced to vCAN Service Providers announced just after VSAN 6.2 was released meant that Service Providers looking at VS...
VMworld 2016: vCloud Air Network Out in Force!
VMworld is a little over three weeks away and from the looking through the sessions at Partner Exchange and VMworld proper the refocus on the vCloud Air Netw...
Sneak Peek - Veeam 9.5 vCloud Director Self Service Portal
Last month Veeam announced that they had significantly enhanced the capabilities around the backup and recovery of vCloud Director . This will give vCloud Ai...
Quick Post: VLAN Trunking with vCloud Director
This week one of our Vitualisation Engineer's ( James Smith ) was trying to come up with a solution for a client that wanted the flexibility to bring in his ...
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 2 – Affinity Rules and New API Functions
vCloud Director SP 8.10 has been out for about a month now and the general buzz around this release has been extremely positive. The decision to expose the p...
Veeam 9.5: Beefed Up Support for vCloud Director
Veeam have only announced two features of their upcoming v9.5 release of Backup & Replication but it's exciting to announce that they have chosen to release ...
Veeam One: Free Edition Powerful And Worth A Look!
Veeam don't just do awesome Backup & Replication software ...they also have, what I think is a highly underrated operations and management and capacity plann...
vCloud Air - Pulling Back Credit Card Payments
A couple of days ago an email dropped into my inbox from VMware titled " Important Notice About Your VMware vCloud Air OnDemand Account " My first thought wa...
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 1 - Full NSX Support
As mentioned last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 and with it a list of significant new features and improvements. In this series I'll go throug...
Released - vCloud Director SP 8.10 with Full NSX Support and UI Additions!
Earlier this morning VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 Build 3879706 . This is a significant release for vCloud Director as its the first release that ...
HOTP: vCloud Air Japan to be Shutdown!
EDIT 2pm AWST : Seems as though the link and announcement has been pulled so take with a grain of salt until it's confirmed or otherwise. EDIT 3:15pm ASWT : ...
Critical Security Issue Client Integration Plugin | vCloud Director 5.5.6 Released
Last week VMware released advisory VMSA-2016-0004 for a critical security issue found in the Client Integration Plugin which is found in versions of vCenter,...
vSphere 6 Update 2 - Whats In It for Service Providers
It's been just over a week since VMware released vSphere 6 Update 2 and I thought I would go through some of the key features and fixes that are included in ...
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.0.1
Somewhat hidden among the major releases that came our from VMware HQ yesterday was a point release for vCloud Director SP 8.x. This takes the vCD SP Build t...
vCloud Air Rumours – vCAN in Focus…Again | VMware Rethinks Strategy
Well…the news isn’t great filtering out over the internets about the VMware Job Cuts and the apparent clipping of vCloud Air's wings. While this is yet to be...
An Early Christmas Gift From VMware: vCloud UI Announcements
This is a special post...apart from being this blog's 200th it's a great week for all those who have dedicated time and effort into VMware's vCloud Director....
vCloud Director SP 5.6.5 Released - Key Fixes
It's been a big week for vCloud Director! For those still running the 5.6.x SP Build there was a point release last week taking vCD SP to 5.6.5 Build 3307437...
vCloud Air and Virtustream - Ok…So This Might Not Happen!
Last week I wrote a piece on the talk around vCloud Air’s demise or more to the point...the often suggested demise of VMware's Public Cloud Platform. The bas...
vCloud Air and Virtustream – Just kill vCloud Air Already?!?
I’ve been wanting to write some commentary around the vCloud Air and Virtustream merger since rumours of it took place just before VMworld in Auguest and I’v...
NSX 6.2 now Supported on vCloud Director SP 8.0
In what is welcome news for vCloud Air Service Providers that have integrated or are looking to integrate NSX-v into their offerings, NSX-v 6.2 is now offici...
Ninefold: Going Head to Head with AWS and Using Opensource is Risky in Cloud Land
Today Ninefold (an Australian based IaaS and PaaS) provider announced that they where closing their doors an would be migrating their clients to their parent...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 5 – SSL VPN-PLUS
Overview : The SSL VPN-Plus feature has been around since the VSE 5.x days and as I've found out was possibly the best underused feature of the VSE. Contribu...
Gotcha: vCloud Stops Logging After 5.5.x to 5.6.x SP Upgrade
This is something to look out for if you are upgrading from vCloud Director 5.5.x to 5.6.x SP and if you have altered the syslog settings of your cells....Th...
vCloud Director 8: New Features And A New UI Addition...
Since June the vCloud Director SP Beta has been running with a lot of renewed interest in the IaaS Platform. The beta was well participated in and there was ...
Follow-Up: vCloud Director SP: The Need for UI Improvement!
Its been a couple of weeks since I wrote this post on the need for improvement with the vCloud Director UI and the response I've had to the article through t...
vCloud Director SP: The Need for UI Improvement!
The vCloud Director 8 SP Beta program has been going for a couple of months now and there has been decent activity in the Discussion Forums and also a good n...
vCloud Director: vApp Download Broken after SP Upgrade
As those who have been using vCloud Director for a while...the ISO/OFV upload/download functionality can be frustrating to use at the best of times even thou...
OVFTool: vCloud Director vApp Export PowerShell Script
Last week I had a requirement to look at how to allow customers to export VM's and vApps from our vCloud Director Zones without using the UI. I've known abou...
HOW-TO: Install PIP and VCA-CLI for vCloud Air|Director on Windows
There is a lot of talk going around how IT Pros can more efficiently operate and consume Cloud Based Services...AWS has lead the way in offering a rich set o...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 4 – Generating Self Signed SSL Certificates
Overview : With the VSE and NSX Edges there are a number of features that can take advantage of Certificate services both as authentication mechanisms and fo...
Quick Post: Removing Datastore Tags and Mounts with PowerCLI
Over the past couple of weeks i've been helping our Ops Team decommission an old storage array. Part of the process is to remove the datastore mounts and pat...
vCloud Director SP: VM Metrics Database Configuration Part 2
vCloud Director SP 5.6.x has the ability to export VM statistics to an external database source which can then be queried via a set of new API calls. I've go...
Quick Fix: vCloud Air Gateway Unreachable
I've just come across a situation in my vCloud Air On Demand Service where the Edge Gateway was showing up as unreachable. Given vCloud Director is backing t...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 2 – High Availability
Overview : High Availability in both VSE and NSX Edges ensures Edge Network Services are always available by deploying a pair of Edge Appliances that work to...
vCloud Director SP: Upgrading and Applying New License Key
Thought I'd put up a very quick post on the process of upgrading from vCloud Director 5.5.x to vCloud Director SP 5.6.x. Any previous license key that you ha...
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 1 - Feature and Performance Matrix
I was having a discussion internally about why we where looking to productize the NSX Edges for our vCloud Director Virtual Datacenter offering over the exis...
vCloud Director 8.0 Beta Kick Off - Initial Thoughts and Reaction
As posted a couple of weeks ago the Beta Program for the new SP Release of vCloud Director was announced and the kickoff was held yesterday morning (1st of J...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Overlapping Networks in vCD with NSX Virtual Wires
Part 4: vCloud Director Overlapping Networks : vCloud Director has the ability to allow Overlapping Network segments configurable from the Administration Tab...
VMware vCloud Director 8.0 Beta: #LongLivevCD
vCloud Air Network Service Providers take note...rumours of vCloud's death where greatly exaggerated. Enterprise users...I still feel you are missing out on ...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: vShield Edges Become Unmanageable - API Fix
If you are familiar with vCloud Director Edge Gateway Services you might have come across situations where Edges become unmanageable and you see the followin...
vCloud Air Network: Zettagrid Cloud Datacenter Signup and VM Provisioning
Earlier in the week I did up a post on the vCloud Air On Demand Signup Process . As I've blogged about in the past, VMware reaffirmed their commitment to the...
Installing and Configuring Cassandra and KairosDB on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Earlier this year I put together a post on installing and configuring a Cassandra Cluster in order to meet the requirements for vCloud SP 5.6.x Metric Report...
vCloud Air On Demand: Initial Sign Up and $500 Promo Code
Signing up with the promo code below gives you $500 of initial service credits and you are also in the draw for $500 in additional service credits for vCloud...
First Look: vCloud Air On Demand
Last week VMware celebrated the official GA of vCloud Air in Australia . And while I've previously expressed mixed feelings around VMware's Public Cloud stra...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Upgrade Issue - Edge Gateway Unmanageable in vCloud Director or Deployment Fails
We have been working with VMware GSS on an issue for a number of weeks whereby we were seeing some vShield Edge devices go into an unmanageable state from wi...
How-To: Install PIP and VCA-CLI for vCloud Air|Director on OS X
There is a lot of talk going around how IT Pros can more efficiently operate and consume Cloud Based Services...AWS has lead the way in offering a rich set o...
Released: vCloud Director 5.6.4 SP - Upgrade from 5.5.2.x and NSX 6.1.2 Support
In October 2014 VMware released vCD SP 5.6.3 which was the first version of vCloud Director that was forked for Service Providers. As I mentioned in this pos...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Using NSX 6.1.x with vCloud Director 5.5.2.x VSE Redeployment Issue
This blog series extends my NSX Bytes Blog Posts to include a more detailed look at how to deploy NSX 6.1.x into an existing vCloud Director Environment. Ini...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Logical Network Preparation and Transport Zone Setup
This blog series extends my NSX Bytes Blog Posts to include a more detailed look at how to deploy NSX 6.1.x into an existing vCloud Director Environment. Ini...
vCloud Director SP: VM Metrics Database Configuration Part 1
vCloud Director SP 5.6.3 was initially released in October 2014 was the first of the SP Editions that had been forked from the Enterprise 5.x builds that cam...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Controller Deployment, Host Preperation and VXLAN Config
This blog series extends my NSX Bytes Blog Posts to include a more detailed look at how to deploy NSX 6.1.x into an existing vCloud Director Environment. Ini...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: NSX Manager Configuration and vCD VSE Deployment Validation
This blog series extends my NSX Bytes Blog Posts to include a more detailed look at how to deploy NSX 6.1.x into an existing vCloud Director Environment. Ini...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Intro and VSM to NSX Manager Upgrade
Part 1: Intro and VSM to NSX Manager Upgrade Part 2: NSX Manager Configuration and vCD VSE Deployment Validation Part 3: Controller Deployment, Host Preparat...
vCloud Director: vCD SP 5.6.3 Release ...with a catch!
"With regards to the upgrade path for SPs looking to deploy vCD SP there will be a build released approx. Q1 15 that will allow upgrades from 5.5.2" On the 8...
Bug Fix: vCloud 5.x IP Sub Allocation Pool Error (5.5.2 Update)
A few months ago I wrote a quick post on a bug that existed in vCloud Director 5.1 in regards to IP Sub Allocation Pools and IP's being marked as in use when...
vCHS vs vCloud: vCloud Air Network...VMware Solidifies Partner Relationship
I must admit…I didn’t see this coming! One of my more recent posts a couple weeks ago was related to how VMware would engage with it’s Service Provider Partn...
vCHS vs. vCloud Providers: The Elephant in the Cloud
A couple of years ago I remember first hearing about Project Zepher which was rumored to be VMware's first attempt at a public cloud offering...though it was...
Follow Up: vCloud 5.x IP Sub Allocation Pool Error ...Fix Coming
A few months ago I wrote a quick post on a bug that existed in vCloud Director 5.1 in regards to IP Sub Allocation Pools and IP's being marked as in use when...
vCloud Director 5.5 Upgrade: Database Upgrade Issues
Generally speaking upgrading the vCloud Director binaries is a pretty straight forward task. It's a two step process where the Cell's are upgraded first foll...
How-To: vCloud Director and Log Insight
Recently v2.0 of VMware Log Insight became GA, and I've been playing around with it since it's release. Having been on the BETA of the 1.5 Version the 2.0 Ve...
vCloud Director 5.5 Upgrade: Storage Profiles and Missing Datastores:
Sometimes I think there is change just for the sake of change...or to keep us on our toes :) Either way I just came across an interesting upgrade gotchya whe...
Quick Thought: VSAN Pricing...We need a VSPP Option
UPDATE : Looks like we will be seeing some VSPP Pricing for VSAN in Q2 vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 has reached GA, and we now have v1.0 of VSAN officially ...
Quick Post: vCloud 5.1.3 IP Sub Allocation Pool Error ...not fixed
After our recent upgrade of vCloud Director from 1.5 to 5.1.2 we started to see some errors during our automated provisioning of VSEs that included the sub a...
Quick CloudPhysics Card: Windows Server 2012 and E1000 NICs
Over the past couple of months we have seen a number of support requests coming into our HelpDesk around network connection dropouts in Windows Server 2012 G...
Upgrading vShield Manager 5.0.x - A Leap of Faith Upgrade
Having recently just completed the upgrading our vCloud Platform from 1.5 to 5.1 I thought it best to share my experiences around the upgrading of the vShiel...
vCloud Reporting: Org and OrgvDC VM Report (PowerCLI)
I had been looking for a way to get quick reports from our vCloud Zones using PowerCLI that reports on VM Allocated Usage. Basically I wanted to get a list o...
VMware Series 2013 - EUC and vDC Ready and Waiting
Over the last couple of weeks I've been fortunate to represent ZettaGrid, as a Platinum Sponsor of the VMware Series 2013 road shows in Melbourne and Sydney....
VMworld - Where is the Zephyr?
There where some pretty big announcements and reveals at VMworld 2012, but unless I missed something (which was totally possible had any accouncement been ma...
vCloud Director and Citrix NetScaler How-To
Ive come across a couple of how-to's on configuring vCloud Cells in a highly available Load Balanced environment. There is a good overview here by @hany_mich...