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
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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
vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.1 for vCloud Director – Part 1
vCloud Director is one of the products I really enjoy working with and it has come a long way from when it was first released. I remember trying to work through deploying the early releases of v1 and 1.5 which seems like a life time ago now. In my opinion Continue Reading
vCenter 6.5 Windows Server to vCenter 6.7 Appliance Migration Guide
For those of you out there running a windows based vCenter 6.5 Server I thought I would put together a guide to help you with your migration to the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. The following post will walk you through migrating your Windows based Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server to Continue Reading
vCenter 6.7 Server Appliance – Install Guide
I thought I would take it back to basics for this next post. Getting vCenter installed is a must do job for most IT Admins out there so below is a an install guide for the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. This will also help us build a foundation for some future Continue Reading
