VMworld is a little over three weeks away and from the looking through the sessions at Partner Exchange and VMworld proper the refocus on the vCloud Air Network that was announced last year at VMworld 2015 is being put well into action. This together with a couple of recent announcements around OnApp being available via VSPP […] Read More
Sneak Peek – Veeam 9.5 vCloud Director Self Service Portal
Last month Veeam announced that they had significantly enhanced the capabilities around the backup and recovery of vCloud Director. This will give vCloud Air Network Service Providers the ability to tap into a new set of RESTful APIs that adds tenanted, self service capabilities and be able to offer a more complete service that is totally controlled and […] Read More
Quick Post: VLAN Trunking with vCloud Director
This week one of our Vitualisation Engineer’s (James Smith) was trying to come up with a solution for a client that wanted the flexibility to bring in his own VLANs mapped into our vCloud networking stack. We get this request quiet often and we generally configure a one to one relationship between the VLAN being mapped […] Read More
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 2 – Affinity Rules and New API Functions
vCloud Director SP 8.10 has been out for about a month now and the general buzz around this release has been extremely positive. The decision to expose the previously API only features has been warmly welcomed by most vCloud Air Network Service Providers and I have heard of quiet a few looking to deploy or […] Read More
Veeam 9.5: Beefed Up Support for vCloud Director
Veeam have only announced two features of their upcoming v9.5 release of Backup & Replication but it’s exciting to announce that they have chosen to release details of a new enhancement of their vCloud Director support as their third reveal. Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5 will give vCloud Air Network Service Providers the ability to tap into a new set of RESTful APIs that […] Read More
Veeam One: Free Edition Powerful And Worth A Look!
Veeam don’t just do awesome Backup & Replication software…they also have, what I think is a highly underrated operations and management and capacity planning platform called VeeamOne. VeeamOne isn’t a new product and in fact it’s been around for a number of years and Veeam pitch the platform against competing products like VMware’s vROPs and other […] Read More
vCloud Air – Pulling Back Credit Card Payments
A couple of days ago an email dropped into my inbox from VMware titled “Important Notice About Your VMware vCloud Air OnDemand Account” My first thought was that this was the take down notice similar to what we saw in Japan a month or so ago however thankfully the email was letting existing VCA OnDemand […] Read More
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 1 – Full NSX Support
As mentioned last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 and with it a list of significant new features and improvements. In this series I’ll go through most of the new additions a little deeper and comment around their significance. As I talked about last week in my introductory post one of the major updates […] Read More
Released – vCloud Director SP 8.10 with Full NSX Support and UI Additions!
Earlier this morning VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 Build 3879706. This is a significant release for vCloud Director as its the first release that contains the long overdue UI features that where previously only accessible via API calls. The vCD Service Provider community had been asking for this since the first release of the SP […] Read More
HOTP: vCloud Air Japan to be Shutdown!
EDIT 2pm AWST: Seems as though the link and announcement has been pulled so take with a grain of salt until it’s confirmed or otherwise. EDIT 3:15pm ASWT: Link is back.EDIT 5:15pm ASWT: Link is pulled. Will continue to monitor but read below for info as it was earlier in the day.Just saw a tweet […] Read More