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 organization can allocate IP Spaces for consumption …

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 of the considerations for how these can …

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 add has somehow turned …

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 4 Explore events this year: Singapore and …

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') which had no PowervRA cmdlet. …

So I had an 'interesting' email from Oracle cloud (OCI) which I almost missed: As this site (kiwicloud.ninja) is currently hosted on the 'Free Tier' of Oracle Cloud I was a bit concerned, but figured the odds of being impacted were low and I 'should be alright'. Unfortunately - turned out it wasn't alright, OCI had …

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 …

Just a quick note, a work colleague pointed out that some image links were broken in an old post on here from 2018. It looks like the last time I moved hosting providers something got confused within WordPress and a heap of image links got broken. I've run a search & replace across the database and hopefully found …

I'm a huge fan of VMware Photon OS as a lightweight Linux distribution for running up quick demo and development environments as well as container hosts. In particular I like the small size and multiple distribution options (including VMware OVA, AWS AMI, Azure VHD and Google GCE formats as well as installation ISO and …