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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 of storage policies to support VMware Cloud Director entities, Now providers has the flexibility to control how tenant use the storage policies. Providers can have not… Continue reading

  • 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 scale up or down the number of VMs in a selected scale group. Cloud Director Scale Groups are a new top level object that tenants… Continue reading

  • 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 to the vSphere control plane for the best administrative control and user experience. Provision clusters directly from vCenter and run containerized workloads with ease. Tanzu… Continue reading

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  • Load Balancer as a Service with Cloud Director

    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 experience. It delivers elasticity and intelligence across any environments. It scales from 0 to 1 million SSL transactions per second in minutes. It achieves 90%… Continue reading

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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 that checks username and password as usual, but adds an additional security control before users are authenticated. It is a particular deployment of a more generic… Continue reading

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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 deployed by Cloud Director Container Service Extension. What is Ingress in Kubernetes “NodePort” and “LoadBalancer”  let you expose a service by specifying that value in… Continue reading

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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 in Kubernetes ? To understand load balancing on Kubernetes, we must need to understand some Kubernetes basics: A “pod” in Kubernetes is a set of… Continue reading

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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 deliver their own catalog based applications or VMware Cloud Marketplace certified 3rd party Cloud Applications, and Bitnami catalog applications directly to customers through a simple… Continue reading

  • 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 Policy to Provider VDC To update the information in the vCloud Director database about the VM storage policies which we had created in underlying vSphere environment,… Continue reading

  • 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 KMS server, which we will use to authenticate with vCenter. Create Certificate To create certificate , login to KMS server and go to KMIP Click… Continue reading

  • 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 the encryption status of VMs and disks in the API as well as user interface. Some of the key features are: Ability to encrypt VMs… Continue reading

  • 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 based? with the release of App Launchpad Cloud providers can elevate their portfolio from IAAS,CAAS to Applications as a Service.Cloud Provider can Offer in-house applications… Continue reading

  • 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 vCloud Director Terraform provider , (last post i did 5 steps) there are 12 steps that we are going to automate.Special thanks to my terraform… Continue reading

  • 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 groups as the source and destination for these firewall rules. The Firewall rules will already have a few entries pre-built in as part of preconfigured… Continue reading

  • 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 to do: Create a new Organisation for the Tenant Create a new Organisation Administrator for this Tenant Create a new Organisation VDC for the Tenant… Continue reading

  • 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 integration tool and this project is fully open-source and available on GitHub and also HashiCorp is hosting it in the “terraform-providers” namespace together with all… Continue reading

  • 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 an Tenant organization, you create one or more organization virtual data centers for tenant organization.To Create an OrgVDC , you need to go to “Cloud… Continue reading

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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 now since VMware is moving towards newly re-written networking platform called NSX-T and with every new version , it is getting mature and feature rich… Continue reading

  • 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 similar concept has been brought in to GUI , which is now easy to implement & manage and in vCD 10 this is being called… Continue reading

  • 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 give cloud providers various options to allocate resources to various use cases like: Deploy VM’s to specific cluster based on performance requirement Deploy VM’s to… Continue reading