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  • vCloud Availability 3.0 – Cloud Deployment & Configuration

    calendar Apr 22, 2019 · 8 min read  ·
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    Deployment Configuration In my lab environment I have two SP datacenter locations (Auckland and Christchurch since I'm in New Zealand) and a complete vCloud infrastructure running in each location. I have defined the appliance names and IP addresses prior to deploying vCAv and registered these in DNS prior to starting …


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  • vCloud Availability 3.0 – Introduction

    calendar Apr 22, 2019 · 3 min read  ·
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    VMware has recently released version 3.0 of vCloud Availability (vCAv) (Release Notes) which allows vCloud Service Providers to offer a variety of VM protection and migration services to their tenant customers. vCAv 3.0 combines features previously available in 3 separate VMware products (vCloud Availability …


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  • vCloud Director 9.7 Portal Customization

    calendar Apr 9, 2019 · 4 min read · API Customization HTML5 Tenant Portal vCloud Director 9  ·
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    One of the nicest additions to the new VMware vCloud Director 9.7 release is the ability to more fully customize the tenant portal. This now includes the capability to define custom links (together with section groupings / separators) and also the capability to customize the portal (and links) on a per-tenant basis: To …


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  • Dynamic Persistent Volumes with CSE Kubernetes and Ceph

    calendar Jan 29, 2019 · 24 min read · ceph container-service-extension CSE dynamic persistent volumes k8s Kubernetes vCloud Director  ·
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    Introduction Application containerization with Docker is fast becoming the default deployment pattern for many business applications and Kubernetes (k8s) the method of managing these workloads. While containers generally should be stateless and ephemeral (able to be deployed, scaled and deleted at will) almost all …


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  • Installing and Using the vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) CLI

    calendar Dec 19, 2018 · 6 min read · Development Javascript vRO  ·
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    Something I was not aware of until recently was that vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) has it’s own Command Line Interface (CLI) environment. This can be an invaluable tool when developing new vRO workflows and actions as it allows you to easily test expressions and code snippets in your environment. Once developed these …


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  • First thoughts on AWS Re:Invent 2018 and where VMware is missing the point

    calendar Nov 30, 2018 · 7 min read  ·
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    Firstly I’ll start this off by saying that I don’t usually write opinion pieces – I’d much rather share some cool technology or tips that I’ve come across in my day job (or even playing with technology in my own time). Secondly, my perspective is likely a bit skewed – I work in one of the most virtualized and …


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  • vCloud Director 9 HTML5 Portal Customization

    calendar Nov 14, 2018 · 2 min read · PowerCLI PowerShell vCloud Director 9  ·
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    One of the great features in vCloud Director 9 which has been further enhanced in the latest v9.5 release is the new HTML5 portal: Even better, VMware has released a toolkit to allow Service Providers to fully customise the look and feel of the portal using CSS themes in their Clarity framework.. The toolkit itself is …


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  • VM Guest Customization in vCloud Director via PowerCLI

    calendar Sep 28, 2018 · 2 min read · Guest Customization PowerCLI PowerShell vCloud Director  ·
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    Bit of a quick post this, but hopefully useful to others. I got asked recently if there was an easy way to set Guest Customization options for VMs hosted in vCloud Director via Powershell/PowerCLI. It turns out there is an extremely simple way, but the syntax is a bit awkward so figured it would make a good/quick blog …


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  • Getting detailed VM Disk Properties from the vCloud API

    calendar Sep 19, 2018 · 4 min read · API PowerCLI PowerShell vCloud Director  ·
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    Since vCloud Director 8.10 VMware have allowed VMs to be created which have multiple disks using different storage policies. This can be very useful – for example, a database VM might have it’s database on fast storage but another disk containing backups or logs on slower/cheaper disk. When trying to find out what …


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  • Tenant Portal Displays ‘No Datacenters are available’ in vCloud Director 9.1

    calendar Jul 3, 2018 · 3 min read · Configuration DNS Tenant Portal Troubleshooting  ·
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    We had an issue recently when updating our vCloud Director environment to v9.1 where the new tenant portal would show ‘No Datacenters are available’ for every tenant even though the remainder of the site worked correctly (and other tabbed options like the Service Library & catalogs worked fine). Initially we …


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