vSphere Replication 8.1.1: vcta Issue
VMware has recently released vCloud Availability 2.0.1.1 update that adds vCloud Director 9.5.0.1 compatibility. The tenant needs to install vSphere Replication 8.1.1 which supports vSphere 6.7U1 all...
View ArticleIPv6 Support Overview in vCloud Director 9.5
vCloud Director version 9.5 is the first release to provide networking IPv6 support. In this article I want to go into little bit more detail on the level of IPv6 functionality than was in my What’s...
View ArticleResource Consumption of Org VDC Allocation Types
The reference table below summarizes how different vCloud Director Org VDC allocation types consume vSphere resources. In other words: how a choice of allocation model for a particular Org VDC and its...
View ArticleUpgrade PostgreSQL version 9 to 10
I had to perform multiple PostgreSQL database upgrades from version 9 to version 10. The database was used for vCloud Director but I believe it is generic enough for other purposes. The base operating...
View ArticlePostgreSQL: Beware of the bloat!
During the last weekend my vCloud Director lab died. And the reason was PostgreSQL DB filled up all the disk space. How could that happen in my small lab with one running vApp? PostgreSQL database when...
View ArticleNSX-T 2.4: Force Local Account Login
NSX-T supports Role Based Access Control by integrating with VMware Identity Manager which provides access to 3rd party Identity Sources such as LDAP, AD, SAML2, etc. When NSX-T version 2.3 is...
View ArticlevCenter Server Issue: Recent Tasks Show xxx.label
I had an annoying issue in my lab. Some time ago when I performed vSphere 6.7 PSC convergence my vCenter would stop displaying proper names of tasks in the vSphere Clients UI (both Flex and H5) and...
View ArticlevCloud Director Federation with IBM Cloud Identity
Update: 2019/10/01 The guide was initially written for vCloud Director 9.7. From vCloud Director version 10 the SAML assertion sent from VCD for service initiated login has changed...
View ArticleWhat’s New in vCloud Director 9.7
With an impressive cadence after less than 6 months there is a new major release of vCloud Director – version 9.7. As usual, I will go into the new features from the technical perspective and provide...
View ArticlevCloud Director Appliance – Phone Home Configuration
All VMware software contains Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) feature also known as Phone Home. You can read here what it does, but in general it sends VMware over the internet...
View ArticlePatching and Upgrading vCloud Director 9.7+ Appliance
Update 23/09/2019: The same process can be used to upgrade vCloud Director appliance to version 10. You can also use VMware patch repository if your appliances have internet connectivity. To reset the...
View ArticlevCloud Director 9.7 Appliance Tips
About half a year ago I published blog post with similar title related to vCloud Director 9.5 appliance. The changes between appliance version 9.5 and 9.7 are so significant therefore I am dedicated a...
View ArticleLoad Balancing vCloud Director with NSX-T
I just have had a chance for the first time to set up vCloud Director installation that was fronted by NSX-T based load balancer (version 2.4.1). In the past I have blogged how to load balance vCloud...
View ArticlevCloud Director Object Storage Extension – Deep Look
VMware released last week another product that extends vCloud Director and enables Cloud Service Providers to offer additional services on top of vCloud Director out-of-the-box IaaS. Where vCloud...
View ArticlevCloud Director – Storage IOPS Management
It is a little known fact that besides compute (capacity and performance), storage capacity and external network throughput rate, vCloud Director can also manage storage IOPS (input / output or read...
View ArticleCustom Links in the H5 vCloud Director Portal
Just a quick post to elaborate on the feature to add custom links into the H5 vCloud Director Portal that I very briefly mentioned in my What’s New in vCloud Director 9.7 blog post. The custom links...
View ArticleWhat’s New in vCloud Director 10
With clockwork efficiency after less than 6 months there a is new major release of vCloud Director – version 10. As usual, I will try to summarize all the new functionality compared to the previous...
View ArticlevCloud Director 10: NSX-T Integration
Intro vCloud Director relies on NSX network virtualization platform to provide on-demand creation and management of networks and networking services. NSX for vSphere has been supported for long time...
View ArticlevCloud Director H5 UI Error: 431 Request Header Fields Too Large
This is just a short blog post to describe an issue you might get with the tenant or portal HTML UI in vCloud Director where you will see errors in the browser related to request header fields too...
View ArticleVCSA Convergence: Failed to Get RPMs
One of my vSphere 6.7 U3 environments I am managing was still using external Platform Services Controller (PSC) from times when it was the prescribed architecture. That is no longer the case so to...
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