After deploying new or upgrading your Cloud Director environment to 10.2 you may notice the tenants site name displaying something similar to “Site name undefined (Site ID: 6d2f1162-b138-4aef-ac42-320f32b5d45c)” This is because the site name is not something you set during the initial setup, it has to be manually changed after Continue Reading
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Getting started with the Veeam v11 Native Plug-in for vCloud Director
With the upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 comes the new version of the Veeam Native vCloud Director Plugin. This addition has been a big hit with Service Providers as it allows them to integrate the Veeam Self-Service Portal directly into the vCloud Director interface. One new addition Continue Reading
Upgrade to Cloud Director 10.2
First off before we begin the upgrade its important to take a snapshot of the appliance. To do this shutdown the appliance from vCenter and then take a snapshot. Once complete power Cloud Director back on. If you have multiple Cloud Cell’s then log into one of the appliances on Continue Reading
How to enable the Flex UI in vCloud Director 10.0
In the last few releases of vCloud Director more and more capabilities have been added into the HTML5 interface to bring it in line with the older Flex UI. While it has come a long way there are still a few things (refer to the release notes) missing that some Continue Reading
vCloud Availability 3.5 appliance DNS issues
Recently I have been deploying a few new vCloud Availability 3.5 environments and I really like the product. The ability to connect multiple vCloud Director sites together and provide a migration path between them as well as in and out of the hosted platform is something IaaS providers have needed Continue Reading
Upgrade vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance to 10
In a previous post I upgraded my vCloud Director 9.5 environment which had an SQL database over to a vCloud 9.7 Appliance with an embedded PostgreSQL database. The link for that can be found here. To follow on from this I thought it was about time I upgraded this environment Continue Reading
vCloud Tenant file restores via Veeam Enterprise Manager when UAC is enabled
I really like the way Enterprise Manager integrates with vCloud Director and provides tenants with an agentless way to backup and restore VMs and files. At the same time it provides a simple self-service portal that we can now integrate directly into vCloud Director with a custom plugin. When a Continue Reading
Migrating from vCloud Director 9.5 with an SQL Database to the vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance
In a previous post I outlined how to migrate your existing vCloud SQL Database over to a PostgreSQL Database. It’s not too difficult but you do need to deploy and configure the PostgreSQL server itself first, so there are a few steps involved. Then I thought what about the people Continue Reading
vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.1 for vCloud Director – Part 2
In a previous post I went through the base installation of vRealize Operations Manager 7 and also a deployment of RabbitMQ on a separate CentOS 7 VM. Now it’s time to install the Management Pack and the vRealize Tenant App for vCloud Director. To begin the first thing we need Continue Reading
RabbitMQ Installation on CentOS 7
RabbitMQ is a messaging broker service which gives applications a common platform to send and receive messages. The messages themselves land in a queue ready for another application to retrieve. In this post I will be setting up RabbitMQ and connecting it to vCloud Director. This is required if you Continue Reading