For the longest time the configuring of vCloud Director’s SSL certificate keystore has been the thing that makes vCD admins shudder. There are lots of posts on the process…some good…some not so good. I even have a post from way back in 2012 about fronting vCD with a Citrix NetScaler and if I am honest, I […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director 9.1.0.1 – API Tweaks and Resolved Issues
There was a point release of vCloud Director 9.1 (9.1.0.1 Build 8825802) released last week, bringing with it an updated Java Runtime plus new API functions that allow additional configuration of advanced settings for virtual machines. There was also a number of bug fixes from the initial 9.1 release earlier in the year. Some of the […] Read More
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 Tenant UI: Dude…Where is my VM Web Console?
As most of you should know buy now, vCloud Director 9.0 features a new HTML5 Tenant UI Portal which is not only very pretty, but also functional. As of the 9.0 release the HTML5 Tenant UI has a limited scope of functionality compared to the legacy Flex based web console but is still a great […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director 9.0.0.2 – Important Networking Fixes!
Last week VMware put out a new point release for vCloud Director 9.0 (Build 7553273) for Service Providers. While there is nothing new in this release there are a significant number of resolved issues as listed in the release notes. One thing to mention is that even though this was released during a similar timeframe […] Read More
Awarded vExpert Cloud – A New vExpert Sub Program
Last week Corey Romero announced the inaugural members of the vExpert Cloud sub-program. This is the third vExpert sub-program following the vSAN and NSX programs announced last year. There are 135 initial vExpert Cloud members who have been awarded the title. As it so happens I am now a member of all three which reflects on […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director 8.10 and 8.20 Point Updates
Last week VMware snuck out two point releases for vCloud Director 8.10 and 8.20. For those still running those versions you now have 8.10.1.1 (Build 6878548) and for 8.20 there 8.20.0.2 (Build 6875354) available for download. These are both patch upgrades and resolve a number of bugs, some of which appear to be mirrored in both […] 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
Enabling, Configuring and Viewing Metrics in vCloud Director 9.0
Last week I released a post on configuring Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.0 metrics. As a refresher, one of the cool features released in vCloud Director SP 5.6.x was the ability to expose VM metrics that service providers could expose to their clients via a set of API calls. With the release of vCloud Director 9.0, the […] Read More
Configuring Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.0 Metrics
One of the cool features released in vCloud Director SP 5.6.x was the ability to expose VM metrics that service providers could expose to their clients via a set of API calls. Some service providers took advantage of this and where able to offer basic VM metrics to their tenants through customer written portals. Zettagrid […] Read More