Back in 2019, Tom Fojta wrote an excellent guide on configuring NSX Load Balancer in front of a VMware Cloud Director (VCD) cluster. As I was in the process of rebuilding my home lab environment I wanted to try this out – eventually I’ll probably use the NSX Advanced Load … Read more
I previously wrote here and here about using the new VMware Cloud Director (VCD) API tokens functionality first introduced in version 10.3.1 to allow scripts and automation to connect to a VCD environment. With the update to VMware PowerCLI version 13.1 the previous way of achieving this is deprecated as … Read more
Quick post detailing how to convert TrueNAS Scale VMs held in zVol disks to VMDK format disk usable in VMware vSphere Read more
In part 1 of this series I looked at the process for a Service Provider to allocate a public block of IP addresses to be consumable by VMware Cloud Director (VCD) tenant organizations. In part 2 of this series I showed the process by which a Service Provider or tenant … Read more
In an earlier post I wrote about the new IP Spaces feature in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) release 10.4.1 and the ability to create public IP spaces shared by multiple tenants. In this post I’ll look at the ability to create private IP spaces within a tenant organization and some … Read more
VMware recently released version 10.4.1 of VMware Cloud Director (VCD) – VMware add a new feature known as IP Spaces. IP Spaces allow providers and tenant customers to manage IP address allocations within VCD. What was originally meant to be a ‘quick look’ at IP Spaces and the capabilities they … Read more
This year VMworld has changed its name to VMware Explore and the US event is back ‘in person’ at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from 29th August to 1st September 2022. The European event takes place in Barcelona from 7th to 10th November 2022. There are also an additional … Read more
The PowervRA module is a great set of PowerShell cmdlets for managing a VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) environment, but I wanted to learn a bit more about the REST API available from vRA and also had a requirement – to script a deployment from an existing vRA blueprint (‘Cloud Template’) … Read more