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Something new that I wanted to talk about in Cloud Director 10.3.1 is the ability to take a backup of the Cloud Director appliance from the appliance management interface. This backup can then be used to restore the primary appliance. In this post I will run through how it all works! To get started log … Continue reading Backup and Restore Cloud Director 10.3.1

Changing your certificates in Cloud Director has always been an interesting topic. A lot of people find the process difficult and I am sure support get a lot of calls in regards to this. Over time I hope it becomes easier for people who might not be used to working with different types of certificates. … Continue reading Replacing Certificates in Cloud Director 10.3.1

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 deployment. When left unset it … Continue reading Changing the site name in Cloud Director

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 port 5480 to identify which … Continue reading Upgrade to Cloud Director 10.2

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 people may do on a … Continue reading How to enable the Flex UI in vCloud Director 10.0

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 for a long time. That … Continue reading vCloud Availability 3.5 appliance DNS issues

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 to vCloud Director 10. I … Continue reading Upgrade vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance to 10

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 that haven't moved over to … Continue reading Migrating from vCloud Director 9.5 with an SQL Database to the vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance