VMworld 2016 is just around the corner (10 days and counting) and the theme this year is be_Tomorrow …which looks to build on the Ready for Any and Brave IT messages from the last couple of VMworld events. It’s a continuation of VMware’s call to arms to get themselves and their partners and customers prepared for the shift in the […] Read More
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 3 – Storage Tiering and Storage Management
vCloud Director SP 8.10 has been out for a couple months now and the general buzz around this release has been extremely positive. The decision to expose the previously API only features has been warmly welcomed by most vCloud Air Network Service Providers and I have heard of quiet a few looking to deploy or plan […] Read More
VMworld 2016: vCloud Air Network Out in Force!
VMworld is a little over three weeks away and from the looking through the sessions at Partner Exchange and VMworld proper the refocus on the vCloud Air Network that was announced last year at VMworld 2015 is being put well into action. This together with a couple of recent announcements around OnApp being available via VSPP […] Read More
Quick Post: VLAN Trunking with vCloud Director
This week one of our Vitualisation Engineer’s (James Smith) was trying to come up with a solution for a client that wanted the flexibility to bring in his own VLANs mapped into our vCloud networking stack. We get this request quiet often and we generally configure a one to one relationship between the VLAN being mapped […] Read More
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 2 – Affinity Rules and New API Functions
vCloud Director SP 8.10 has been out for about a month now and the general buzz around this release has been extremely positive. The decision to expose the previously API only features has been warmly welcomed by most vCloud Air Network Service Providers and I have heard of quiet a few looking to deploy or […] Read More
vCD SP 8.10 New Features Part 1 – Full NSX Support
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
Important – vCNS and NSX End of Availability and Support Notifications
For a while now we have known that vCloud Networking and Security’s days where numbered…with the release of NSX as a replacement+ product it had been communicated to current vCNS customers that an upgrade to NSX-v would be on the cards to ensure continued support and functionality. The date has now been set for the EOA […] 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