Category: vCloud Director
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Using vCD-CLI for vCloud Director
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…
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Setup RabbitMQ Server on Ubuntu for vCloud Director
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…
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vCloud Director VM Maximum vCPU&RAM Size limits
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…
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vCloud Director T-Shirt Sizing
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…
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vCloud Director 9.7 Portal Custom Branding
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…
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Upgrade Postgres SQL 9 to 10 for vCloud Director
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…
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VMware Container Service Extension Upgrade
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…
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VMware CSE Upgrade Error – Missing keys in config file ‘service’ section: {‘enforce_authorization’}
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…
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VMware Container Service Extension Installation – Part-1
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…
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What is VMware Cloud Provider Pod
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…
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Kubernetes-as-a-Service on vCloud Director
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…
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vCloud Availability Cloud-to-Cloud Design and Deploy Guide
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…
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What is VMware vCloud Availability Cloud-to-Cloud DR
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…
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vCloud Director – Chargeback
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…
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VMware vCloud Availability Installation-Part-10-Fully Automated Deployment
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…
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VMware vCloud Availability Installation-Part-9-Tenant On-Boarding
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…
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VMware vCloud Availability Installation-Part-8-Integration and DRaaS portal access
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…
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VMware vCloud Availability Installation-Part-7-Create vCloud Availability Tenant and Administration Portal
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…
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VMware vCloud Availability Installation-Part-6-Create vSphere Replication Cloud Service Host & Replication Server
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…
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VMware vCloud Availability Installation-Part-5-Deploy vSphere Replication Manager
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…
