Tag Archives: SSL

vCD Edge SSL Certificate Management via PowerShell for tenants

By | | Networking, NSX, PowerCLI, PowerShell, REST API, vCloud Director
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Tom Fojta has a couple of really good blog posts on his blog (https://fojta.wordpress.com/) about using Let’s Encrypt certificates on an NSX Edge Load Balancer. The first part can be found at https://fojta.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/automate-lets-encrypt-certificate-for-nsx-edge-load-balancer/ and the second part at https://fojta.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/automate-lets-encrypt-certificates-part-2/. The method described in these posts relies on connectivity with the NSX management … Read more →

Cassandra SSL for vCloud Director metrics database

By | | Cassandra
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In vCloud Director v9 the requirement for both Apache Cassandra and KairosDB for storing metrics has been reduced to just Apache Cassandra. In addition, the ability to view VM metrics directly in the new  vCD 9 HTML5 tenant UI makes it much more important to have a reliable Cassandra infrastructure. … Read more →