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
NSX-v 6.4.0 Released! What’s in it for Service Providers
This week VMware released NSX-v 6.4.0 (Build 7564187) and with it comes a new UI Plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5) which includes some new dashboards including a new Update Lifecycle Manager built right into the Web Client. Reading through the release notes, for me the biggest improvements seem to be around NSX Edges and Edge […] Read More
Top Posts 2017
2017 is done and dusted and looking back on the blog over the last twelve months I’ve not been able to keep the pace up compared to the previous two years in terms of churning out content. In 2017 I managed 90 posts (including this one) which was down on the 124 last year and the 110 […] 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
vCloud Director 9.0: Manual Quick fix for VXLAN Network Pool Error
vCloud Director 9.0, released last week has a bunch of new enhancements and a lot of those are focused around it’s integration with NSX. Tom Fojta has a what’s new page on the go with a lot of the new features being explained. One of his first posts just after the GA was around the […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director 9.0 – The Most Significant Update To Date!
Today is a good day! VMware have released to GA vCloud Director 9.0 (build 6681978) and with it come the most significant feature and enhancements of any previous vCD release. This is the 9th major release of vCloud Director, now spanning nearly six and half years since v1.0 was released in Feburary of 2011 and […] Read More