As you all know VMware vCloud Director is a cloud provisioning and management tool for Service Providers. A while ago a new version was released and the new version is lucky number 10. Two of the most obvious improvements would be the HTML 5 UI (this applies to providers as well) and the support for NSX-T …
A few days ago, 209-03-28, VMware released a new version of vCloud Director meaning latest and greatest version is now 9.7. With version 9.7 the vCloud Director virtual appliance (VA) comes with both the cell and database, PostgreSQL 10, functionality so there is no need to use an external database anymore if you’re going down …
About one month ago I wrote about the VMware vCloud Director 9.5 announcement here and today, 2018-10-04, it was officially released. Two things I didn’t mentioned in the release announcement, since I didn’t have any information, were: vCloud Director deployment models. I did mention that it will be changes but not what changes. There are …
Updated 2018-09-20: Not creating partitions on the /dev/sdb disk. Original Post Published: 20 November 2014. —————————————————————————————– It was quite a while ago i had to create a Linux based NFS share for a 2 x vCloud Director (vCD) cell setup. For some reason Windows based NFS shares have been used during my latest vCD implementations. Below …
Almost one year ago I wrote about the vCloud Director (vCD) 9.0 announcement here and a few days ago vCloud Director 9.5 was announced. This means VMware announces 9.5 during the VMworld (a few days earlier but anyway) timeframe this year as well. There are some interesting changes and new features coming along with this release. Haven’t …
Yesterday, 2018-03-08, VMware released a new version of VMware vCloud (vCD) meaning the latest and greatest version is now 9.1. Below are some of the new features and functionality included in the new release: Dedicated HTML 5 Provider Portal – No more Flex unless you want to use it since it is still available. Improved …
Yesterday, 2018-01-16, VMware released a minor update to vCloud Director (vCD) meaning latest and greatest version is now 9.0.0.2. This release focuses on resolving issues and not on new features which is usually the way with these minor minor updates. A few resolved issues I have seen or heard about are: Change SID for …
Yesterday, 2017-09-28, exactly one month after the announcement which I wrote about here VMware released VMware vCloud (vCD) director 9.0. Below are some of the new features ans functionality included in the new release: New HTML5 based UI which can be accessed via: https://{vCD _URP_IP}/Tenant/{organization_name} However, the old Flex based UI is still available. New …
Yesterday, 2017-08-28, VMware announced a new version of vCloud Director, (vCD) meaning the most current release will be 9.0. Latest available vCD version today is 8.2 and was released February 2017. There is not that much information available yet about new features and capabilities but here are a few: Flex UI is gone and there …
Yesterday, 2017-02-21, VMware released a new version of vCloud Director (vCD) which is now version 8.20. As you all know vCD has been focusing on service providers since a few years back but since I still work with a few service providers I’m using it from time to time. There are quite a few changes/improvements …
A few days ago, 2015-02-12, VMware released an updated version, 5.6.4, of vCloud Director (vCD) for service provides. This release, since it’s a minor one, focus on fixing potential problem but one thing i know will be useful is the option of upgrading existing vCD installation (versions 5.5.2 and 5.5.2.1) to vCD 5.6.4. The following guest operating systems …
VMware released vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b yesterday, 2014-06-12, and the main resolved issue i can see a lot of customers will benefit from is that the “OpenSSL libraries have been updated to versions openssl-0.9.8za, openssl-1.0.0m, and openssl-1.0.1h to address the CVE-2014-0224” The release notes can be found here and you can download the software here. VMware vCloud Director version …
In the beginning of May i was informed by @encrypturlyf about an article “Why ABM Is Migrating from VMware to Hyper-V” published by www.cio.com. A few days back a customer of mine contacted me regarding the same article. Yes that was before i moved to Nutanix, i just haven’t had the time to put together a blog …
During a vCloud Director (vCD) version 5.5 implementation the other week we started out with using self signed certificates for the vCD cells and a company external (purchased) wildcard certificate for the load balancer facing the internet. I have used this setup (not wildcard certificates) quite a few times for e.g. vCD version 1.5 & …
Today, March 11, VMware released the vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and some new enhancements includes: vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 ESXi 5.5 Update 1 includes support for VMware Virtual SAN. I have …
A customer contacted me a few days ago and wanted a operational procedure for moving a vCloud Director (vCD), version 5.5, based virtual machine (VM) from one vSphere cluster to another vSphere cluster. My customer uses vSphere version 5.5 and had one major requirement that had to be taken into account. The VM has to …