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VCF Automation – Tenant Management
In today’s multi-tenant cloud environments, VMware Cloud Foundation Automation (VCFA) offers a robust layered architecture that seamlessly bridges enterprise-grade infrastructure management with developer-ready self-service capabilities. By clearly separating responsibilities—from VMware Cloud Service Providers who manage the physical and virtual infrastructure, to organization administrators who allocate resources, and finally to developers who consume them—VCFA enables efficient… Continue reading
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Navigating the Shift: From VMware Cloud Director to VCF Automation in VMware Cloud Foundation 9
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) has officially launched, introducing a next-generation Cloud Management Platform — VCF Automation (VCFA). This new platform supersedes both Aria Automation and VMware Cloud Director (VCD). This blog is specifically aimed at those familiar with VCD and looking to understand how VCFA compares — what remains familiar, what’s changed, and… Continue reading
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From Virtualization to Cloud Service Delivery with VMware Cloud Foundation & VCSPs
Are you leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation and VCSPs for cloud service delivery? Let’s discuss! #CloudComputing #VMware #VCF #CloudServiceProviders #HybridCloud #SovereignCloud #PrivateAI Continue reading
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Enhancing Firewall Flexibility in VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1
With VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1, service providers gain greater flexibility and control over firewall configurations, ensuring compliance with licensing entitlements while delivering scalable, high-value security services. This update aligns with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) networking licensing, enabling providers to selectively offer the VMware Advanced Networking & Security (ANS) Add-On to customers based on their needs… Continue reading
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Integrating VMware Data Services Manager with VMware Cloud Director
In today’s rapidly evolving cloud landscape, integrating robust data management solutions is crucial for maintaining efficiency and scalability. VMware’s Data Services Manager (DSM) offers a comprehensive suite of tools to manage data services, and when integrated with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) and the Data Solutions Extension (DSE), it provides a powerful platform for cloud providers… Continue reading
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Why VMware VCSP Partners Should Embrace vSAN Now: A Powerhouse for Private Cloud Offerings with the New Licensing Advantage
In today’s dynamic business environment, enterprises are increasingly seeking agile and scalable private cloud solutions. VMware partners are uniquely positioned to capitalize on this trend, and vSAN, VMware’s software-defined storage solution, is a powerful tool to add to your private cloud arsenal. Let’s delve into why vSAN, with its new licensing model and advanced architecture,… Continue reading
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VMware Cloud Director OIDC Integration with VMware Workspace ONE Access
VMware Cloud Director OIDC Integration with VMware Workspace ONE Access Prerequisite Bill of Material Steps to Configure Workspace ONE Access for OIDC Authentication Workspace ONE Access uses OAuth 2 to enable applications to register with Workspace ONE Access and create secure delegated access to applications. In this case, we will use Cloud Director to integrate with Workspace One… Continue reading
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NSX Multi-Tenancy in VMware Cloud Director
Multi-Tenancy was introduced in NSX UI starting from VMware NSX 4.1 and now commencing with version 10.5.1, VMware Cloud Director introduces support for NSX multi-tenancy, facilitating direct alignment of vcd organizations with NSX projects. What are NSX Projects ? A project in NSX functions akin to a tenant. Creating projects enables the separation of security… Continue reading
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Deploy, Run, and Manage Any Application with VMware Cloud Director Content Hub
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses require agile and scalable solutions to deploy and manage their applications efficiently. VMware Cloud Director Content Hub (VDCH) introduced in VMware Cloud Director 10.5, offers a robust platform for a simplified and automated way to deploy, run, and manage a wide range of applications. In this blog, we’ll explore… Continue reading
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Infrastructure as Code with VMware Cloud Director
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are constantly seeking ways to optimize their IT operations and streamline infrastructure management. One approach that has gained significant traction is Infrastructure as Code (IaC). By treating infrastructure provisioning and management as code, IaC enables organizations to automate and standardize their processes, resulting in increased efficiency, scalability, and consistency.… Continue reading
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Harness the Power of Cloud Director Data Solutions: Offer DBaaS using VMware SQL with MySQL
The VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions is a game-changing plug-in for the VMware Cloud Director. By incorporating data and messaging services into the VMware Cloud Director portfolio, it enables cloud providers and their tenants to access and manage services such as VMware SQL with MySQL, VMware SQL with PostgreSQL, and the efficient messaging… Continue reading
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Assess Your Sovereign Cloud Stack for Compliance
VMware vRealize (ARIA) Operations Compliance Pack for Sovereign Cloud is a management pack available in the VMware Marketplace. You can download and install this management pack on an instance of vRealize (ARIA) Operations to automatically assess a Sovereign Cloud stack for compliance. VMware vRealize (ARIA) Operations Compliance Pack for Sovereign Cloud is intended to be used by the VMware… Continue reading
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Security VDC Architecture with VMware Cloud Director
Cloud Director VDCs come with all the features you’d expect from a public cloud, Virtual Data Center is a logical representation of a physical data center, created using virtualization technologies and a virtual data center allows IT administrators to create, provision, and manage virtualized resources such as servers, storage, and networking in a flexible and… Continue reading
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Getting Started with VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension 4.0
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension brings Kubernetes as a service to VMware Cloud Director, offering multi-tenant, VMware supported, production ready, and compatible Kubernetes services with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. As a service provider administrator, you can add the service to your existing VMware Cloud Director tenants. By using VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension, customers can also use Tanzu products and services such… Continue reading
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Multi-Tenant Tanzu Data Services with VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions is a plug-in for VMware Cloud Director (VCD) that enables cloud providers expand their multi-tenant cloud infrastructure platform to deliver a portfolio of on-demand caching, messaging and database software services at massive scale. This brings in new opportunity for our Cloud Providers to offer additional cloud native developer services in addition to… Continue reading
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VMware Cloud Director Charge Back Explained
VMware Chargeback not only enables metering and chargeback capabilities, but also provides visibility into infrastructure usage through performance and capacity dashboards for the Cloiud Providers as well as tenants. To help Cloud Providers and tenants realise more value for every dollar they spend on infrastructure (ROI) (and in turn provide similar value to their tenants),… Continue reading
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AI/ML with VMware Cloud Director
AI/ML—short for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—represents an important evolution in computer science and data processing that is quickly transforming a vast array of industries. Why is AI/ML important? it’s no secret that data is an increasingly important business asset, with the amount of data generated and stored globally growing at an exponential… Continue reading
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Cloud Director OIDC Configuration using OKTA IDP
OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an industry-standard authentication layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol. The OAuth 2.0 protocol provides security through scoped access tokens, and OIDC provides user authentication and single sign-on (SSO) functionality. For more refer here (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749). There are two main types of authentication that you can perform with Okta: The OAuth… Continue reading
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Windows Bare Metal Servers on NSX-T overlay Networks
In this post, I will configure Windows 2016/2019 bare metal server as an transport node in NSX-T and then also will configure a NSX-T overlay segment on a Windows 2016/2019 server bare metal server, which allow VM and bare metal server on the same network to communicate. To use NSX-T Data Center on a windows physical server… Continue reading
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Quick Tip – Delete Stale Entries on Cloud Director CSE
Container Service Extension (CSE) is a VMware vCloud Director (VCD) extension that helps tenants create and work with Kubernetes clusters.CSE brings Kubernetes as a Service to VCD, by creating customized VM templates (Kubernetes templates) and enabling tenant users to deploy fully functional Kubernetes clusters as self-contained vApps. Due to any reason, if tenant’s cluster creation stuck and… Continue reading
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