Tom Fojta wrote a great blog post about the new capability in vCloud Director 8.10 to import running VMs into vCloud Director. This is a huge asset in migration scenarios where customers can't afford outages when being migrated into the vCD environment. Unfortunately the API syntax to actually initiate the import is a …

Introduction While I love using the PowerCLI tools for manipulating vCloud Director, sometimes you need to perform actions that require hitting the API directly. Tools such as the RESTClient plugin for Firefox, cURL and HTTPie from the command line are good for interactive manipulation of the API, but what if you want …

Sometimes you just need to create a new vApp with no contents at all - maybe for testing, or maybe you want to populate it with VMs built 'from scratch' rather than cloned from templates. This is easy to do in the vCloud Director web UI - you just skip the addition of any VM templates or new VMs and can easily create …

In part 1 of this series I posted some code for a PowerShell module to manipulate (view/add/delete) metadata tags on vCloud Director objects. As promised, in this followup post I've given some examples of syntax and possible use-cases for the module. The PowerShell Import-Module cmdlet can be used to add my module to …

One of the frustrations dealing with the vSphere Web Client has always been the requirement for a browser plugin to import/export OVF templates. In vSphere 6 and vCloud Director 8 this has reached a whole new level of frustration. The issue is that both vSphere 6 and vCloud Director 8 offer to download and install a …