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Promiscuous Portgroup Myth
Topic of promiscuous portgroup on virtual switch came up lately from different directions therefore I decided to summarize some information and also debunk one particular myth. What is promiscuous...
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VCD-SP 5.6 Upgradability
Just a short post. vCloud Director 5.6.3 – the first release solely for service providers was released on Tuesday. There is however no upgrade path from vCloud Director 5.5.2 which was released a month...
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VCIX-NV Exam Experience
After passing my VCP-NV – the entry level certification for VMware NSX network virtualization technology as soon as it was available I scheduled its advanced exam called VMware Certified Implementation...
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Homelab: Downsizing NSX Controller
One of the problems of testing NSX in homelab environment is that it is really resource hungry. For example NSX Manager VM deploys with 12 GB RAM. While it is simple to edit its settings and lower...
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Load Balancing HA vCenter Single Sign-On with NSX
One of the deployment options for vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 (SSO) is high availability mode. It usually consists of two load balanced SSO nodes deployed in single site configuration. It is quite...
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How to Generate SSL Certificates for vRealize Operations
vRealize Operations 6 (vRops) has different SSL certificate generation requirements than the older version. I have not found it publicly documented anywhere so here it is: Generate private key: openssl...
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Source NAT Rule for All Internal Networks in vCloud Director
In order to access external network resources from internal Org VDC networks Source NAT (SNAT) rule must be created on the Edge Gateway which translates internal IP address to a sub-allocated IP...
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vCloud Director Portal Access over IPv6
I got interesting question from a colleague if vCloud Director portal can be accessed over IPv6. I suspected the answer is yes so I had little bit of fun and did a quick test. With NSX load balancer in...
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Automate ESXi Host VTEP Default Gateway
As discussed in my older article VXLAN routed transport network requires to set default gateway of vxlan stack on each ESXi host. While NSX has concept of IP Pools which allows automatic VTEP...
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vCloud Director: Online Migration of Virtual Data Center – Part II
About two years ago I have written a blog post describing how service provider (with cloud based on vCloud Director) can replace hardware without tenants actually noticing this. The provider can stand...
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Deploy 500 Edge Gateways in 500 Seconds
I am working on a few vCloud and NSX API scripts that collect data about Edge Gateways and needed to test how they work at scale. With this little PowerShell script leveraging NSX API I created 500...
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How to Monitor Health of NSX Edge Gateways
NSX Edge Service Gateways are virtual machines deployed by NSX Manager that provide network services (routing, bridging, load balancing, VPNs, DNS relay, DHCP, …). This makes them quite a critical...
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My New Role at VMware
After almost 4 years working for professional services at VMware I am transferring to new Architect role in Global Cloud Practice – vCloud Air Network. I am taking up the challenge to work in a global...
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Renaming Edge Gateway
Recently one of my customers changed naming convention of vCloud Director Edge Gateways. He renamed them in vCloud Director however the names of virtual machines backing the Edge Gateways stayed the...
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Custom vCenter Server Event and Alarm
Related to my previous post about monitoring Edge Gateways my customer asked me if he could leverage vCenter Server alarms as they are integrated with their monitoring and alerting infrastructure. So...
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VCD Cell Management Tool without Administrator Credentials
I just learned from engineering neat trick related to how cell management tool can be invoked without specifying administrator credentials. The issue is that currently you cannot use LDAP account to...
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vCloud Connector and Offline Data Transfer
Offline Data Transfer (ODT) is a feature of vCloud Connector that allows migration of VMs from customer own datacenter to vCloud Air with NAS appliance which is shipped via regular mail. The point is...
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vRealize Automation with Multiple Cloud Endpoints
One of my customers had deployed true hybrid vRealize Automation with multiple cloud endpoints: vCloud Air and internal vCloud Director and AWS. I was called in to troubleshoot strange issue where...
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Tracking Catalog Template Deployments in vCloud Director
A customer asked me how to track deployments of certain catalog templates. This is mainly for licensing or charging purposes where the provider creates and maintains (patches) OS templates which the...
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Which Cloud VMs do not have VM Tools Installed?
Quick PowerCLI one-liner which displays all VMs running in vCloud Director together with their VM Tools version. Get-CIVM |Select Name, {$_.Org.Name}, {$_.OrgVdc.Name},...
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