vCD SP

Released: vCloud Director 9.1 – New HTML5 Features, vCD-CLI and more!

Overnight VMware released vCloud Director 9.1 (build 7905680) which builds on the 9.0 release that came out last September. This continues to deliver on VMware’s promise to release major vCD updates every six months or so. This update, on the surface contains fewer big ticket items than the 9.0 release however the enhancements included are actually […] Read More

vCloud Director 9.0: Digging into the new Standalone VM Feature

vCloud Director 9.0 was released late last month and brought with it a number of big new features and enhancements. If you are interested in a overview of what’s new, head here to my launch post. Getting back to this post I wanted to focus on what I think is a significant change to the […] Read More

CPU Overallocation and Poor Network Performance in vCD – Beware of Resource Pools

For the longest time all VMware administrators have been told that resource pools are not folders and that they should only be used under circumstances where the impact of applying the resource settings is fully understood. From my point of view I’ve been able to utilize resource pools for VM management without too much hassle since […] Read More

Worth a Repost: “VMware Doubles Down” vCloud Director 8.20

It seems that with the announcement last week that VMware was offloading vCloud Air to OVH people where again asking what is happening with vCloud Director….and the vCloud Air Network in general. While vCD is still not available for VMware’s enterprise customers, the vCloud Director platform has officially never been in a stronger position. Those outside the vCAN […] Read More

Quick Fix: vCloud Director SP None of the Cells have a vCenter Proxy Service Running. SSL Protocol Fix

vCloud Director SP 8.20 was released a few weeks ago and I wanted to highlight an issue I ran into while testing of the BETA. I hadn’t come across this issue in previous versions of vCD and even though it relates to the fact I had a vCenter 5.5 I thought it worth a post now […] Read More

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