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 Balancer (formerly known as AVI), but I don't …

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 the …

I had some queries on my previous blog post on using the new API Tokens in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.3.1 about whether these can be used in PowerCLI scripts from PowerShell or Terraform scripts which use the VMware Terraform Provider against Cloud Director. Fortunately the answer to both questions is 'Yes' and …

One of the feature requests which I've wanted for a long time is the ability to generate user API tokens in Cloud Director. Since most service providers enforce MFA/2FA authentication to the Cloud Director UI (which is a very good thing and something I definitely recommend) this can make it more difficult for …