As mentioned last week VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 and with it a list of significant new features and improvements. In this series I’ll go through most of the new additions a little deeper and comment around their significance. As I talked about last week in my introductory post one of the major updates […] Read More
Released – vCloud Director SP 8.10 with Full NSX Support and UI Additions!
Earlier this morning VMware released vCloud Director SP 8.10 Build 3879706. This is a significant release for vCloud Director as its the first release that contains the long overdue UI features that where previously only accessible via API calls. The vCD Service Provider community had been asking for this since the first release of the SP […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director SP 8.0.1
Somewhat hidden among the major releases that came our from VMware HQ yesterday was a point release for vCloud Director SP 8.x. This takes the vCD SP Build to 3635340. The build is mainly a maintenance release but does address a major issue with the upload and downloading of OVF and other media in Chrome. After […] Read More
An Early Christmas Gift From VMware: vCloud UI Announcements
This is a special post…apart from being this blog’s 200th it’s a great week for all those who have dedicated time and effort into VMware’s vCloud Director…During a night of restless sleep on Monday I checked my phone and my Twitter feed to find that VMware and the vCloud Team had given us an early […] Read More
vCloud Director SP 5.6.5 Released – Key Fixes
It’s been a big week for vCloud Director! For those still running the 5.6.x SP Build there was a point release last week taking vCD SP to 5.6.5 Build 3307437. The release is mostly a bug fix but there is the added support for Internet Explorer 11 (still no Edge Support but that’s not really […] Read More
NSX 6.2 now Supported on vCloud Director SP 8.0
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
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