Overview: The SSL VPN-Plus feature has been around since the VSE 5.x days and as I’ve found out was possibly the best underused feature of the VSE. Contributing to it’s lack of use was the fact that the functionality was not exposed via vCloud Director so one of the best use cases for the SSL VPN remained […] Read More
Gotcha: vCloud Stops Logging After 5.5.x to 5.6.x SP Upgrade
This is something to look out for if you are upgrading from vCloud Director 5.5.x to 5.6.x SP and if you have altered the syslog settings of your cells….This little gotcha nearly caused a couple of our production vCloud Director Cells to fail due to insufficient storage on the their file systems. Prior to our alerting […] Read More
vCloud Director 8: New Features And A New UI Addition…
Since June the vCloud Director SP Beta has been running with a lot of renewed interest in the IaaS Platform. The beta was well participated in and there was a lot of robust discussion around the future of vCD as well as questions around the lack of a decent UI for those without in house […] Read More
Follow-Up: vCloud Director SP: The Need for UI Improvement!
Its been a couple of weeks since I wrote this post on the need for improvement with the vCloud Director UI and the response I’ve had to the article through the comments section, on LinkedIn and Twitter and also in the vCloud Director SP v8.0 Beta Discussion forums has been positive and supportive. With VMworld fast […] Read More
vCloud Director SP: The Need for UI Improvement!
The vCloud Director 8 SP Beta program has been going for a couple of months now and there has been decent activity in the Discussion Forums and also a good number of Feature Requests submitted online in the program portal showing that there is strong in interest in the next version of vCD. After talking […] Read More
vCloud Director: vApp Download Broken after SP Upgrade
As those who have been using vCloud Director for a while…the ISO/OFV upload/download functionality can be frustrating to use at the best of times even though over the past few versions of vCD the experience has improved. Thats said there is a little black magic that needs to be performed to get the right browser/JAVA combination. […] Read More
OVFTool: vCloud Director vApp Export PowerShell Script
Last week I had a requirement to look at how to allow customers to export VM’s and vApps from our vCloud Director Zones without using the UI. I’ve known about the OVFTool for a while but never really had the need to use it in anger…for those that don’t know the OVFTool is a command line tool […] Read More
HOW-TO: Install PIP and VCA-CLI for vCloud Air|Director on Windows
There is a lot of talk going around how IT Pros can more efficiently operate and consume Cloud Based Services…AWS has lead the way in offering a rich set of APIs for it’s clients to use to help build out cloud applications and infrastructure and there are a ton of programming libraries and platforms that […] Read More
NSX Edge vs vShield Edge: Part 4 – Generating Self Signed SSL Certificates
Overview: With the VSE and NSX Edges there are a number of features that can take advantage of Certificate services both as authentication mechanisms and for more traditional SSL Server Certificate termination. In both the VSE and NSX Edges you have the ability to Generate or Import a certificate with the following being a quick […] Read More
Quick Post: Removing Datastore Tags and Mounts with PowerCLI
Over the past couple of weeks i’ve been helping our Ops Team decommission an old storage array. Part of the process is to remove the datastore mounts and paths to ensure a clean ESXi Host config as well as remove any vCenter Tags that are used for vCloud Director Storage Policies. Looking through my post […] Read More