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...
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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...
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...
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 for Service Providers - vCloud Director 10.0 Support and Self Service Portal Enhancements
Veeam Backup & Replication v10 has been Generally Available since mid Feburary and last week I posted a What’s in it for Service Providers overview blog post...
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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 ...
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 9.5.0.2 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 ...
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...
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...
Cloud to Cloud to Cloud Networking with Veeam Powered Network
I've written a couple of posts on how Veeam Powered Network can make accessing your homelab easy with it's straight forward approach to creating and connecti...
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...
Veeam DRaaS v10 Enhancements: vCloud Director Support!
Today at VeeamON 2017 we announced two very important enhancements to our DRaaS capabilities around Cloud Connect Replication and Tape Backup for our Veeam C...
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.....
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...
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: 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...