Whenever I hit an obscure issue using someone else's code, I try and write up a quick post if I manage to find the cause (and fix it). Hopefully in this case you've found this article after encountering the same issue and this will provide an easy way to resolve it. In this case, I was working on deploying a lab …

One of the issues I come up against every now and again is when a customer asks how they can automate some functionality in our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) cloud platform and I think 'that should be easy in PowerShell / PowerCLI' only to find out that the necessary cmdlets to accomplish the activity aren't present. …

PowerShell can be a great way to administer Virtual Machines in VMware Cloud Director, but there are still some 'gaps' in the cmdlet cover for commonly required functions. As and when customers ask me about these I can usually find a reasonably easy way to fill the gap with some code to access the VCD API directly. …

Just a quick post covering an issue I discovered when deploying new appliances for the recently released VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) solution (the product formerly known as vCloud Availability). When I deployed the first management appliance I was a bit puzzled to see this on the console during first …

VMware App Launchpad is an addon to VMware Cloud Director (VCD) which can be used by Service Providers (SPs) to allow customers/tenants to deploy pre-created templates (known as vAppTemplates) into their environments. These templates can contain any pre-loaded/configured applications (e.g. a database server or content …

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 …

One of the most welcome additions in vCloud Availability (vCAV) 3.0 is a public API which exposes much of the platform capability to automation and orchestration. In particular for Service Providers it is possible to relatively easily extract statistics on the number of replicated VMs, the type of replication (ongoing …

In the 5th part in this series of posts on vCloud Availability 3.0 I wanted to try something new, so I've made a short (~10 min) video showing the configuration of VM replication between an on-premise vSphere environment and a Cloud Provider service using the vSphere client plugin and the vCloud Director tenant portal. …

In the first 3 parts of this series I detailed the configuration and deployment of vCAv 3.0 into a service provider site. In this 4th part I show the deployment and configuration of vCAv into a tenant on-premise infrastructure. This allows appropriately configured tenants to protect on-premise VMs to a cloud provider …

The first 2 parts of this series covered the overall vCloud Availability (vCAv) architecture and the deployment and configuration of the vCAv appliances into a Cloud Provider site. Before continuing pairing sites and configuring VM replication policies, first check that all services are online and showing as healthy. …