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Edge Gateway Deployment Speed in vCloud Director 8.10
In vCloud Director 8.10 there is massive improvement in deployment (and configuration) speed of Edge Gateways. This is especially noticeable in use cases where large number of routed vApps are...
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Automate Let’s Encrypt Certificate for NSX Edge Load Balancer
I needed public certificate for my lab to avoid issues while testing certain libraries that did not allow untrusted connections or importing private Certificate Authority. Fortunately, there is...
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Gathering Health Status of vCloud Director Edge Gateways
Some time ago I wrote about how to monitor health of NSX Edge Gateways. In this blog post I will show how to get health and other info about vCloud Director Edge Gateways with PowerCLI. PowerCLI...
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PowerCLI Stops Working After NSX 6.2.4 Upgrade
As of NSX 6.2.3 TLS 1.0 support is deprecated on Edge Service Gateways. So if you are using load balancer with SSL offload, TLS 1.0 ciphers are no longer being supported and those clients that rely on...
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Collect vCloud Director Cell Logs with Log Insight Agent
While it is possible to redirect vCloud Director cell logs by editing log4j.properties file to remote syslog server (see KB 2004564) there is an alternative agent based method utilizing vRealize Log...
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How to Enable TLS1.0 on NSX Edge
In one of my previous articles I wrote how NSX upgrade to 6.2.4 impacts PowerCLI as it disables TLS 1.0 ciphers on Edge Load Balancer. The fix for PowerCLI was easy but what if there are other...
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Query ESXi Hosts Serial Numbers
I was asked by our IT department to provide serial numbers of our lab servers. Fortunately this can be done remotely with esxcfg-info CLI command and can be automated with William Lam (@lamw) PowerCLI...
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vCloud Availability PowerCLI Monitoring Cmdlets
vCloud Availability for vCloud Director is a new product for vCAN service providers released in July 2016 that enables disaster recovery to and from the cloud. It allows any vSphere customer who...
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vCloud Availability – Orchestration with PowerCLI
In my last post I have introduced vCloud Availability – a Disaster Recovery extension for vCloud Director and also have shown how service providers can monitor the key components of the solution. Today...
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Configure Active Directory Federation for vCloud Director Organization
vCloud Director tenants can federate their on-premises identity source with vCloud Director to simplify user management in their vCloud organization. I have already wrote blog post about this topic in...
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Setup Site-to-Site VPN between AWS and vCloud Director
In today’s reality of multi cloud world customers are asking how to set up connection between them. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to set up IPsec VPN tunnel between AWS VPC and vCloud...
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Setup Site-to-Site VPN between Azure and vCloud Director
My previous blog post was about setting up IPSec VPN tunnel between AWS VPC and vCloud Director Org VDC. This time I will describe how to achieve the same with Microsoft Azure. vCloud Director is not...
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vCloud Availability: Replication Traffic Deep Dive
VMware this week released vCloud Availability 1.0.1. It is a disaster recovery as a service solution that extends vCloud Director and enables VM replications between vSphere environments and a...
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Monitoring vSphere Replication RPO Compliance
Just a quick post to show how you can monitor Recovery Point Objective (RPO) compliance of a virtual machines protected with vSphere Replication. Option 1: vCenter Server Alarm When vSphere Replication...
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vCloud Director 8.20: VM Auto-import
While the biggest new feature of vCloud Director 8.20 is the access for tenants to NSX advanced services on Edge Gateways and distributed firewall, service providers will love automatic import of...
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VCDNI to VXLAN Migration
vCloud Network Isolation (VCDNI or VCNI) is legacy mechanism to create overlay logical networks independently from physical networking underlay. It was originally used in VMware vCenter Lab Manager...
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vCloud Director 8.20: Orchestrated Upgrade
vCloud Director architecture consist of multiple cells that share common database. The upgrade process involves shutting down services on all cells, upgrading them, upgrading the database and starting...
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vCloud Director 8.20: Distributed Firewall
NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) is the most popular feature of NSX which enables microsegmenation of networks with vNIC level firewalls in hypervisor. For real technical deep dive into the feature I...
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vCloud Director 8.20: Granular Role Based Access Control
vCloud Director 8.20 introduces the possibility to create granular roles at tenant and system level. This is important for service providers who want to differentiate which tenants have access to...
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Architecting a VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Solution
Another vCloud Architecture Toolkit whitepaper that I authored was published on the vCAT SP website – it discusses how to architect vCloud Availability solution in large production scenarios. It is...
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