Most of service providers infrastructures have multiple Cloud Director instances running in multiple availability zones for availability requirements. In such case, managing multiple catalogs manually and keeping them all synchronized introduce a lot of administrative overhead. Thankfully, VCD has a…
It has been a while I didn’t have time to write due to my relocation with my family to Dubai with all what it means from starting a new life at another country, and the pressure of handling parallel enterprise…
This is part3 of my 3-parts NSX-T series that illustrates the complete step-by-step procedure to replace the self-signed certificates for NSX-T 3.x manager cluster with MS-based CA-signed certificates. In part1 of this series, I configured a MS-based Certificate Authority server…
This is part2 of my 3-parts NSX-T series that illustrates the complete step-by-step procedure to replace the self-signed certificates for NSX-T 3.x manager cluster with MS-based CA-signed certificates. In part1 of this series, I configured a MS-based Certificate Authority server…
As I received multiple requests about how-to steps needed for NSX-T manager cluster certificate replacement, I decided to write a 3-parts series to clarify and illustrate the complete step-by-step procedure from the very first task of configuring the CA server…
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 is generally available now with a lot of enhancements and features such as full use of NSX-T and delivering self-service functionality in Edge firewall and IP services, distributed L4/L7 firewall, Avi load balancer through the tenant…
One of the latest things I tried to do recently in my VMware cloud director environment is to create a shared catalog with some imported vCenter OS templates to be used by other cloud director organizations while enabling guest OS…
As I already deployed cloud director 10.1.1 and integrated it with vCenter 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0. Things were working as expected and vCenter connection status was successful and connected until I received an error today in the provider tenant saying…
An organization is the fundamental vCloud director grouping that contains users, vApps that they create, and the resources that the vApps use. An organization is the top-level container in a cloud that contains one or more organization VDCs. An organization…
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management platform (CMP) offers true multi-tenancy where each customer has a self-service tenant portal that will be used to provision workloads and other services. Resources should be available to each customer to consume via…
