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 …

Way back in 2012 Alan Renouf created a PowerCLI module to deal with manipulation of metadata entries for vCloud Director objects - this can be incredibly useful to track related information for these objects. The vCD metadata functionality was enhanced in v5.1 (and then later in 5.5, 5.6 and 8.0) - in particular typed …

I've been meaning to write a public blog for a while (ok, several years) now, but there always seemed to be something more important/urgent/fun to do so I never got around to it. Having found out recently that my VMware vExpert status has been renewed for 2016 (Huge thanks guys!) I figured there really was no excuse …