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vCD Edge SSL Certificate Management via PowerShell for tenants
vCloud Availability 3.0 – Working with the vCAV API
vCloud Availability 3.0 – Protecting & Migrating VMs
In the 5th part in this series of posts on vCloud Availability 3.0 I wanted to try something new, so I’ve made a short (~10 min) video showing the configuration of VM replication between an on-premise vSphere environment and a Cloud Provider service using the vSphere client plugin and the … Read more
vCloud Availability 3.0 – On-Premise Deployment & Configuration
In the first 3 parts of this series I detailed the configuration and deployment of vCAv 3.0 into a service provider site. In this 4th part I show the deployment and configuration of vCAv into a tenant on-premise infrastructure. This allows appropriately configured tenants to protect on-premise VMs to a … Read more
vCloud Availability 3.0 – Site Pairing & vCAv Policies
The first 2 parts of this series covered the overall vCloud Availability (vCAv) architecture and the deployment and configuration of the vCAv appliances into a Cloud Provider site. Before continuing pairing sites and configuring VM replication policies, first check that all services are online and showing as healthy. The easiest … Read more
vCloud Availability 3.0 – Cloud Deployment & Configuration
Deployment Configuration In my lab environment I have two SP datacenter locations (Auckland and Christchurch since I’m in New Zealand) and a complete vCloud infrastructure running in each location. I have defined the appliance names and IP addresses prior to deploying vCAv and registered these in DNS prior to starting … Read more
vCloud Availability 3.0 – Introduction
VMware has recently released version 3.0 of vCloud Availability (vCAv) (Release Notes) which allows vCloud Service Providers to offer a variety of VM protection and migration services to their tenant customers. vCAv 3.0 combines features previously available in 3 separate VMware products (vCloud Availability Cloud-to-Cloud DR, vCloud Availability for vCloud … Read more
vCloud Director 9.7 Portal Customization
One of the nicest additions to the new VMware vCloud Director 9.7 release is the ability to more fully customize the tenant portal. This now includes the capability to define custom links (together with section groupings / separators) and also the capability to customize the portal (and links) on a … Read more
Dynamic Persistent Volumes with CSE Kubernetes and Ceph
Introduction Application containerization with Docker is fast becoming the default deployment pattern for many business applications and Kubernetes (k8s) the method of managing these workloads. While containers generally should be stateless and ephemeral (able to be deployed, scaled and deleted at will) almost all business applications require data persistence of … Read more