Category: vCloud Director
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VMware Cloud Director Assignable Storage Policies to Entity Types
Service providers can use storage policies in VMware Cloud Director to create a tiered storage offering like: Gold, Silver and Bronze or even offer dedicated storage to tenants. With the enhancement…
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Auto Scale Applications with VMware Cloud Director
Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.2.2, Tenants can auto scale applications depending on the current CPU and memory utilization. Depending on predefined criteria for the CPU and memory use, VMware Cloud Director can automatically…
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Getting Started with Tanzu Basic
In the process of modernize your data center to run VMs and containers side by side, Run Kubernetes as part of vSphere with Tanzu Basic. Tanzu Basic embeds Kubernetes in…
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Load Balancer as a Service with Cloud Director
NSX Advance Load Balancer’s (AVI) Intent-based Software Load Balancer provides scalable application delivery across any infrastructure. AVI provides 100% software load balancing to ensure a fast, scalable and secure application…
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VMware Cloud Director Two Factor Authentication with VMware Verify
In this post, I will be configuring two-factor authentication (2FA) for VMware Cloud Director using Workspace ONE Access formally know as VMware Identity Manager (vIDM). Two-factor authentication is a mechanism…
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Ingress on Cloud Director Container Service Extension
In this blog post i will be deploying Ingress controller along with Load Balancer (LB was deployed in previous post) in to tenant organization VDC kubernetes cluster which has been…
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Load Balancer for Cloud Director Container Service Extension
In this blog post i will be deploying Load Balancer in to tenant organization VDC kubernetes cluster which has been deployed by Cloud Director Container Service Extension. What is LB…
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Install and Configure Cloud Director App Launchpad
In continuation of my last post on the same topic, in this post we will deploy and configure Cloud Director App Launchpad. With App Launchpad VMware cloud providers can now…
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VMware Cloud Director Encryption -PartIII
In the Part-1 & Part-2 we configured HyTrust KeyControl Cluster & vCenter, In this post we will configure Cloud director to utilize what we have configured till now… Attach Storage…
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VMware Cloud Director Encryption -PartII
In the Part-1 we configured HyTrust KeyControl Cluster , In this post we will configure this cluster in vCenter and configure encryption for Virtual Machines. Let’s create a certificate on…
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VMware Cloud Director Encryption- Part1
Latest Cloud Director 10.1 release adds support for VM Encryption using cloud director self service portal, this means it allow users to encrypt/decrypt VMs and disks via Cloud Director, view…
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Deliver Applications as a Service on Cloud Director with App Launchpad
Cloud Director App Launchpad helps VMware Cloud Providers to offer their tenants a curated portfolio of applications for their consumption, without them having to know anything about VMware Cloud Director…
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Quick & Easy Tenant OnBoarding using Cloud Director Terraform Provider
In continuation to my last two posts on using Terraform to automate various Cloud Director options, here is another one…In this post we are going to onboard a tenant using…
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Automate Cloud Director Edge Firewall Rules using API
Edge Firewall Rules: Tenant can use the edge gateway Firewall tab to add firewall rules for that edge gateway. You can add multiple NSX Edge interfaces and multiple IP address…
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Onboard Tenants on Cloud Director in less than 5 Minutes using vCD Terraform Provider
In continuation to my last post, In this post we are going to onboard a tenant using vCloud Director Terraform provider , there are five things that we are going…
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Automate vCloud Director with Terraform Provider
The new refreshed Terraform vCloud Director provider enables administrators and DevOps engineers to define vCloud Director “infrastructure as code” inside Terraform configuration files. This makes it an efficient automation and…
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vCloud Director 10 – NSX-T – Tenant Configuration
In continuation of my previous post , in this post i will be covering tenant side configuration of vCloud Director 10 along with NSX-T. Create OrgVDC To provide resources to…
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vCloud Director 10 – NSX-T – Provider Configuration
As you may be aware vCloud Director from its inception initially was relying on vCNS and after that on NSX-V to provide on-demand , self service cloud networking capabilities and…
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vCloud Director 10 : T-Shirt Sizing
In vCloud Director 9.7 compute policies were introduced to offer/manage the T-shirt sizing of the VMs which i have covered in detail in my this post, in vCloud Director 10…
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vCloud Director 10 : VM Placement Policies
vCloud Director 10 has introduced a new concept called VM placement policies which helps Cloud Provider to control the virtual machine (VM) placement on a specific cluster or host.VM placement policies…

