Tag Archives: PowerCLI

vCloud Director 9 HTML5 Portal Customization

By | | PowerCLI, PowerShell, REST API, vCloud Director, VMware
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One of the great features in vCloud Director 9 which has been further enhanced in the latest v9.5 release is the new HTML5 portal: Even better, VMware has released a toolkit to allow Service Providers to fully customise the look and feel of the portal using CSS themes in their … Read more →

VM Guest Customization in vCloud Director via PowerCLI

By | | PowerCLI, PowerShell, vCloud Director, VMware
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Bit of a quick post this, but hopefully useful to others. I got asked recently if there was an easy way to set Guest Customization options for VMs hosted in vCloud Director via Powershell/PowerCLI. It turns out there is an extremely simple way, but the syntax is a bit awkward … Read more →

Getting detailed VM Disk Properties from the vCloud API

By | | PowerShell, REST API, vCloud Director, VMware
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Since vCloud Director 8.10 VMware have allowed VMs to be created which have multiple disks using different storage policies. This can be very useful – for example, a database VM might have it’s database on fast storage but another disk containing backups or logs on slower/cheaper disk. When trying to … Read more →

Using vCloud Director PowerCLI and vcd-cli with Federated User Accounts

By | | PowerShell, vCloud Director
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One of the issues that vCloud Director user can run into is user authentication when using the PowerCLI and vcd-cli tools to manage their cloud deployments. For ‘Local’ user accounts defined in the vCloud Director portal this isn’t an issue as username/password are stored in the vCD database and can … Read more →

vCloud Director v9 Multi-site

By | | PowerShell, REST API, vCloud Director, VMware
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Since vCloud Director v9 was released last week (and previously as part of the closed beta), one of the new features I’m most excited about is support for multi-site deployments. This allows vCloud Director environments for the first time to properly span federated sites (e.g. a tenant who has resources … Read more →