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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
VMworld Europe 2016: vCloud Air Network Out in Force!
VMworld Europe is a little over a week away and while I won't be attending the even in Barcelona in looking through the session catalog for Partner Exchange ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Important - vCNS and NSX End of Availability and Support Notifications
For a while now we have known that vCloud Networking and Security's days where numbered ...with the release of NSX as a replacement+ product it had been comm...
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...
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...
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...
NSX Bytes: Unable to Remove Logical Switch: Resources are still in use
I came across an situation today where I was doing a clean up of Logical Switches in my NSX Lab where I was unable to remove a logical switch due to it appar...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Controller Deployment Internal Server Error Has Occurred
During my initial work with NSX-v I was running various 6.0.x Builds together with vCD 5.5.2 and vCenter/ESXi 5.5 without issue. When NSX 6.1 was released I ...
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 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...
VMware VSAN: VSPP Pricing Revealed
Just after the release of VSAN a couple weeks back, I wrote this post talking about the need for VSAN to appear on the VSPP pricelist. At the time there only...
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...
vExpert 2012 - My Journey in Virtualization so far...
If you had asked me 2 years ago that I'd be writing as a VMware vExpert I would have thought you were crazy. At that stage my only exposure to VMware was on ...