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Layer 2 VPN to the Cloud – Part II
Almost 3 years ago I have published an article how to set up layer 2 VPN between on-prem vSphere environment and vCloud Director Org VDC. As both vCloud Director and NSX evolved quite a bit since to...
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vRealize Orchestrator Client with 4K Screen
This is a quick tip for those that want to run vRealize Orchestrator client on 4K screen in Windows 10 and cannot see anything because the font is so tiny and does not scale. The full credit goes to...
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What’s New in vCloud Availability 2.0.1
Minor patch of vCloud Availability 2.0.1 was released last week. Besides many bug fixes, improved documentation and support for Cassandra version 3.x I want to highlight two undocumented features and...
View ArticleWhat’s New in vCloud Director 9.1
vCloud Director version 9.1 has been released. It has been just 6 months since the previous release (9.0) so VMware is delivering on its promise of multiple yearly releases in 6 months cadence. In this...
View ArticleLimit Maximum vCPU/RAM Configuration of vCloud Director VM
Some times ago I wrote about an undocumented feature that allows to limit maximum disk size for VM in vCloud Director. I was asked numerous times if there is similar setting for vCPU and RAM maximums....
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vCloud Director on AWS
My colleague Lyubomir Lyubenov from VMware OneCloud team (OneCloud is internal huge vCloud Director based cloud for field enablement) recently published VCDonAWS CloudFormation templates with which you...
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vCloud Director Federation with VMware Identity Manager
Although in the past I have already blogged about vCloud Director federation with VMware Workspace and Microsoft AD FS I still have not wrote a guide how to achieve organization federation with VMware...
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vRealize Business for Cloud API Authentication
vRealize Business for Cloud (vRBC) can be used to meter vSphere, NSX and vCloud Director endpoints. I have struggled a bit to obtain necessary metering data via API due to very brief documentation, so...
View ArticlevCloud Availability – Cloud Proxy with Multiple NICs
Cloud Proxy is important component of vCloud Availability solution that sits in DMZ and tunnels replicated traffic in and out of the provider’s environment. For deep dive on the traffic flows see this...
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vCloud Availability – Updated Whitepaper
I have updated my vCAT-SP vCloud Availability whitepaper to reflect changes that came with vCloud Availability 2.0 and vSphere 6.5/6.7. It can be downloaded from the vCAT-SP site from the Storage and...
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Embedding vCloud Availability Portal into vCloud Director UI
Some time ago I blogged about the possibility to link to vCloud Availability Portal directly from vCloud Director UI (here and here). This was done by inserting custom links into the vCloud Director...
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vCloud Director Service Library – Change AD Password
vCloud Director version 9.1 introduced the ability to easily create custom services and display them in the new user interface as tiles under Service Library. The services are created in vRealize...
View ArticlevCloud Availability – Resizing Disk of Protected VM
A customer asked how to resize a disk of very large VM (file server) which is protected with vCloud Availability and thus replicated to the cloud. It is not straight forward as the underlying...
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What’s New in vCloud Director 9.5
After vCloud Director 9.1 release in March we have new version 9.5 out! Here are links to release notes and a whitepaper describing its new features. Let me also go through the new features here so I...
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How to Change vCloud Director Installation ID
During installation of vCloud Director you must supply installation ID from range 1-63. Its purpose is very similar to vCenter Server ID, it is used for generation of unique MAC addresses for VMs...
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vCloud Director – vCenter Server Relationship
vCloud Director as a cloud management platform needs resources to provision the target workloads to. These resources are provided by vCenter Server (compute, storage, networks) and NSX Manager...
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Postman and vCloud Director 9.5 Access Token Authentication
Quick post on how to configure Postman to use the new vCloud API 31.0 bearer token authentication instead of the deprecated authorization token header. Create your environment if you have not done yet...
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vCloud Director 9.5 and VMware Identity Manager Integration
About six months ago I blogged about VMware Identity Manager (VIDM) federation with vCloud Director. That article is still fully valid (and start there if you have not read it yet), however with the...
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vCloud OpenAPI – Large Payload Issue with Load Balancer
With vCloud Director version 9 new API (cloudapi) based on OpenAPI specification has been introduced next to the legacy based XML API. In vCloud Director 9.5 API Explorer enables consumption of the API...
View ArticlevCloud Director 9.5 Appliance Tips
With vCloud Director 9.5 VMware for the first time released vCloud Director in fully supported appliance format. It is the first iteration of longer process to provide the whole solution in the...
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