I was having a discussion internally about why we where looking to productize the NSX Edges for our vCloud Director Virtual Datacenter offering over the existing vCNS vShield Edges. A quick search online didn’t come up with anything concrete so I’ve decided to list out the differences as concisely as possible. This post will go through […] Read More
vCloud Director 8.0 Beta Kick Off – Initial Thoughts and Reaction
As posted a couple of weeks ago the Beta Program for the new SP Release of vCloud Director was announced and the kickoff was held yesterday morning (1st of June) Pacific time. When I joined the call there where about 200 other callers signed in which must have been a pleasing number for the vCD Team and […] Read More
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Overlapping Networks in vCD with NSX Virtual Wires
Part 4: vCloud Director Overlapping Networks: vCloud Director has the ability to allow Overlapping Network segments configurable from the Administration Tab of the vCD UI. Traditionally for those using VLAN backed External Networks and Network Pools this would represent a potential risk to clients if admins where not careful provisioning network resources. If the same […] Read More
VMware vCloud Director 8.0 Beta: #LongLivevCD
vCloud Air Network Service Providers take note…rumours of vCloud’s death where greatly exaggerated. Enterprise users…I still feel you are missing out on one of the best Cloud Management Platforms going around…however! The Beta program for vCD 8.0 (seems we have skipped 6 and 7) will go live from June 1st. As you can see below there […] Read More
VMworld 2015: Registration and Session ‘Liking’ Open
There are only 101 Days to go till VMworld 2015 with Registrations now Open and Session voting for this years event going live last week. Skimming through the 1400+ sessions listed on VMworld Site this years event promises to be filled with quality content and great discussion. The voting process isn’t really voting as such because there […] Read More
NSX vCloud Retrofit: vShield Edges Become Unmanageable – API Fix
If you are familiar with vCloud Director Edge Gateway Services you might have come across situations where Edges become unmanageable and you see the following options greyed out in the vCD UI. All Edge services remain functional, however no changes can be made. In environments where NSX has been retrofitted with an in place upgrade […] Read More
vCloud Air Network: Zettagrid Cloud Datacenter Signup and VM Provisioning
Earlier in the week I did up a post on the vCloud Air On Demand Signup Process. As I’ve blogged about in the past, VMware reaffirmed their commitment to their Service Provider Partners and created the vCloud Air Network Program with the idea that together with VMware’s own Public Cloud offering…partner Hosted Platforms based on […] Read More
vCloud Air On Demand: Initial Sign Up and $500 Promo Code
Signing up with the promo code below gives you $500 of initial service credits and you are also in the draw for $500 in additional service credits for vCloud Air On Demand…there will be a winner drawn every week until the end of June by the VMware VCA Team with winners notified by email. As seen in […] Read More
Quick Post: One Stop Shop for ESXi Driver Downloads
Today I needed to update an Emulex NIC Driver for an new host that I installed using the VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 2 base image. I needed to chase up the latest OEM update bundle for the elxnet drivers… Generally sourcing these driver bundles can be a bit of a pain but I remembered a conversation I […] Read More
NSX Bytes: API Response Times and User Accounts
If there is one thing that working with NSX has done is drag me kicking and screaming into the world of APIs. Apart from being on the VCIX-NV Blueprint, in my current role it was becoming increasingly important to understand how our developers consume and manipulate the automation of our products and services…just being able to do […] Read More