In what is welcome news for vCloud Air Service Providers that have integrated or are looking to integrate NSX-v into their offerings, NSX-v 6.2 is now officially supported in vCloud Director 8.0 as shown by the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix below. Prior to this update I had tested (without issue) running vCD 8.0 and NSX 6.2 […] 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
Cloud Director Release History
Below is the release history of vCloud Director (now VMware Cloud Director) since v1.0 was released back in August of 2010. There have been 16 major releases and 69 minor releases which backs up one of my biggest claims around platform maturity and as to why VMware Cloud Director is the best Cloud Management Platform […] 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
VSAN for Service Providers
Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message around the improvements in the latest VSAN release. Cormac Hogan and Rawlinson Rivera have published articles while Duncan Epping has also released a number of articles around VSAN since […] Read More
vExpert VMworld Reception and Program Thoughts
Last week at VMworld we had the annual vExpert Reception…this year the party was held at the very swanky Julia Morgan Ballroom in the Merchants Exchange building. From looking around the room I counted at least a couple hundred vExperts which is a fantastic turnout given the spread of the 1300 vExperts around the world. The agenda […] 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
NSX Bytes: Unable to Remove Logical Switch: Resources are still in use
I came across an situation today where I was doing a clean up of Logical Switches in my NSX Lab where I was unable to remove a logical switch due to it apparently still being in use. Not a very helpful error however this was due to the fact I had provisioned a few NSX Edges and vShield […] 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