Recently I was deploying VMware Cloud Director as part of an engagement for a Cloud Provider customer and I faced a couple of issues connecting to their Linux NFS server. I am writing this post to share with you the…
Category: VMware Cloud Director
I came into a scenario recently where we need to decommission a cluster from a provider PVDC where that cluster also contains workloads already provisioned by the customer through the VCD tenant portal. In order to do so, we need…
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…
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…
VMware Cloud Director enables cloud providers to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. Cloud Director introduces the virtual infrastructure resources to users through web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully automated, catalog-based…
