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
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
VMware Photon: vCloud Air Network Deployment
This week VMware announced information around their Cloud Native Apps strategy…VMware Photon and Lightwave are aimed at the ever growing Container market with VMware open sourcing their own lightweight Linux Microservice Server released as Photon. Photon provides the following benefits: Support for the most popular Linux container formats including Docker, rkt, and Garden from Pivotal Minimal footprint (approximately 300MB), to […] Read More
First Look: vCloud Air On Demand
Last week VMware celebrated the official GA of vCloud Air in Australia. And while I’ve previously expressed mixed feelings around VMware’s Public Cloud strategy…the announcements at VMworld 2014 around the vCloud Air Network have eased my concerns around the Service Provider Partner ecosystem. Working for one of Australia’s leading vCloud Air Network SPs I fully expect to […] Read More
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Upgrade Issue – Edge Gateway Unmanageable in vCloud Director or Deployment Fails
We have been working with VMware GSS on an issue for a number of weeks whereby we were seeing some vShield Edge devices go into an unmanageable state from within the vCloud Director Portal. In a nutshell some VSEs (version 5.5.3) where stuck in a Configuring Loop upon the committal of a Service Config change. […] Read More
How-To: Install PIP and VCA-CLI for vCloud Air|Director on OS X
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 vCloud Retrofit: Controller Deployment Internal Server Error Has Occurred
During my initial work with NSX-v I was running various 6.0.x Builds together with vCD 5.5.2 and vCenter/ESXi 5.5 without issue. When NSX 6.1 was released I decided to clone off my base Production Environment to test a fresh deployment of 6.1.2 into a mature vCloud Director 5.5.2 instance that had vCNS running a VSM […] Read More