VMware vCloud Director vCD-CLI  is a command line interface for vCloud Director using short, easy-to-remember commands to administer vCD. it also allows tenants to perform certain operations for convenience and automation. vCD-CLI is Python based and fully open source and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Installation process is very easy and can be installed on… Continue reading

I am working on a Lab which require messaging queue server , so i setup this and thought of sharing the steps, so here it is.. AMQP is an open standard for message queuing that supports flexible messaging for enterprise systems. vCloud Director uses the RabbitMQ AMQP broker to provide the message bus used by extension services,… Continue reading

As you know vCloud Director 9.7 comes with a default compute policy for VDC , that does provide options for custom vm sizing and this can go out of control from provides point of view as tenant can try to deploy any size of VM which might impact many things and to control this behaviour… Continue reading

Many of my customer with whom i directly interact has been asking this feature from quite some time , few of them says that T-shirt sized based offering matches of what hyper scalars offer, so with the release of vCloud Director 9.7, we can now control the resource allocation and the VM placement much better by using… Continue reading

Much awaited feature for cloud provider to match thier corporate  standards and to create a fully custom cloud experience, now with release on vCloud Director 9.7 you can set the logo and the theme for your vCloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal and also now you can customize the vCloud Director Tenant Portal of each tenants . In addition,… Continue reading

Since vCloud Director 9.7 has dropped support for Postgres SQL9.5 , so i had to upgrade my postgres to 10 , then i have updated my vCloud Director to versions 9.7 , i followed below steps to upgrade the DB , basically at High level steps are as below: You need to backup the existing… Continue reading

With the release of new Container Service Extension (CSE) version 1.2.7 due to vulnerability related to docker (CVE-2019-5736 ) for both Ubuntu and Photon OS templates , it is very important to update the CSE ASAP , here is the procedure to help you to upgrade the CSE easily. Pre-requisite: Check the release notes Here… Continue reading

Trying to upgrade CSE to latest version of CSE 1.2.7 and during upgrade process facing error , like this: Missing keys in config file ‘service’ section: {‘enforce_authorization’} with this new release there are many new options has been added in to configuration file considering PKS integration , so to resolve this issue , there are… Continue reading

In continuation of my last post on Kubernetes as a service on vCloud Director , here is the next post on installation of Container Server Extension on vCloud Director. This post applies to CSE version 1.2.5 CSE Installation This installation procedure applies to Client VM as well as CSE Server VM. For this installation i will leverage… Continue reading

There are lots of partners looking for a solution which can automate the entire deployment of vCD based cloud once racking , stacking and cabling is done for their infrastructure that is where VMware Cloud Provider Pod helps…Basically Cloud Provider Pod automate the deployment of VMware-based clouds. A Cloud Provider Pod-deployed stack adheres to VMware… Continue reading

VMware’s Container Service Extension (CSE)  on vCloud Director is a VMware vCloud Director extension that helps Cloud Providers to Offer Kubernetes-as-a-Service to their tenants , who can easily create and work with Kubernetes clusters. basically it means  using CSE a Service Provider can offer compute resources to tenants secured through a multi-tenant IaaS vCloud Director… Continue reading

vCloud Architecture Toolkit white paper that I have written now has been  published on the cloudsolutions.vmware.com website – this design and deploy guide helps cloud providers to design and deploy vCloud Availability Cloud-to-Cloud DR solution.  This guide is based on real life example and helps cloud providers to successfully plan , design and deploy vCloud… Continue reading

The VMware vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR solution extends existing hybrid cloud offerings of VMware Cloud Providers™ on top of VMware vCloud Director with disaster recovery and application continuity between vCloud Director Virtual Data Centers or Cloud Environments. vCloud Availability Cloud-to-Cloud brings in a much-needed in providing native Disaster Recovery between vCloud Director instances. VMware… Continue reading

There were frequent asks from VMware based cloud providers that we must have a robust metering capabilities, VMware has launched New vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for vCloud Director 2.0 in conjunction with vROps which has now inbuilt Charge back and metering capabilities. Here I am going to discusses few awesome features with detailed screenshot. Go… Continue reading

What i have learnt during deployments that  an automated installation and configuration of the vCloud Availability components is simple, time saving, faster and less error prone compared to the manual deployment. lets deploy it automatically with few clicks of the button. For the automated installation of vCloud Availability, we must need to create a registry file containing information… Continue reading

Let’s Deploy your very known vSphere replication appliances and before we get in to that ensure that Tenant/customer has vSphere and vSphere Web Client installed and if vSphere is installed properly ,then in the vSphere Web Client, select the vCenter Server instance on which you are deploying vSphere Replication, click Manage > Settings > Advanced Settings, and verify that the VirtualCenter.FQDN value is set to a fully-qualified domain name.… Continue reading

As we have completed  the deployment of  all the individual components of vCloud Availability, we must need to configure them to talk/register to each other to support DRaaS. 1- Configure the vSphere Replication Manager Configure vSphere Replication Manager with vCD using Below command. Run below command to check if the HMS service started successfully. 2– Configure Cassandra… Continue reading

The vCloud Availability Portal provides a graphic user interface to facilitate the management of vCloud Availability operations. The vCloud Availability Portal back end (PBE) scales horizontally. You can deploy a new vCloud Availability Portal instance on demand connected to the same load balancer that all the vCloud Availability Portal instances are under. The load balancer must support sticky sessions, so that the same PBE instance… Continue reading

The vSphere Replication Cloud Service is a tenancy aware replication manager that provides the required API for managing the service and all the components. vSphere Replication Cloud Service registers it self as a vCloud Director extension and will be  accessible through the vCloud Director interface. Lets Deploy vSphere Replication Cloud Service Host using below command.. Create a new Variable with below information. #export… Continue reading

vSphere Replication Manager manages and monitors the replication process from tenant VMs to the cloud provider environment. A vSphere Replication management service runs for each vCenter Server and tracks changes to VMs and infrastructure related to replication. these appliances can be horizontally scaled based on the requirement. In production environment we must deploy one vSphere Replication Manager for each Resource vCenter Server but… Continue reading