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VMware Cloud Director: Step-by-Step VCD Upgrade from version 10.4.2 to 10.5.1

  • Posted on January 13, 2024January 13, 2024
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

In this post, I will guide you through the process of upgrading VCD from version 10.4.2 to version 10.5.1. Although VCD 10.5.1 is considered as a patch release from version 10.5.0, however it came with a lot of new features…

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VMware Cloud Director 10.5.0: Unable to Create a NEW Edge Gateway Firewall Rule

  • Posted on January 2, 2024January 2, 2024
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Recently I was delivering a professional services engagement for one of our VMware Cloud Providers where we deployed VMware Cloud Director (VCD) version 10.5.0 integrated with NSX 4.1.1. Upon validating the functionality of the environment, i noticed a weird behavior…

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VMware VCD 10.4.0: “NullPointerException” Error when Enabling NSX ALB Load balancing on Org Edge Gateway

  • Posted on March 23, 2023March 23, 2023
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

As you may know, NSX ALB is the only available option that allows LBaaS offering through VCD when NSX-T is used as the network backing type for the OrgVDCs. The native NSX-T loadbalancer isn’t used in VCD. Accordingly VCD will…

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HTTPS LB for VCD 10.4.x on NSX ALB 22.1.1: “Unable To Perform Query” – VCD UI Access Issue

  • Posted on March 22, 2023March 22, 2023
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

This post will not show you how to configure the HTTPS load balancer for VMware Cloud Director (VCD). There are multiple public articles that cover the details for such LB configuration. In this post, I will shed the light on…

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VMware Cloud Director 10.3.x VAMI Setup – NFS Mount Validation Failing

  • Posted on December 20, 2022December 20, 2022
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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VCD 10.3.1: Cross-Cluster Workload Migration within the same elastic PVDC

  • Posted on March 12, 2022March 12, 2022
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1: Publishing & Subscribing to a Catalog

  • Posted on January 9, 2022January 9, 2022
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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Step-by-Step: Deploy and Configure VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1

  • Posted on December 31, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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Step-By-Step: Upgrade a Multi-Cell Cloud Director From 10.1 to 10.2

  • Posted on October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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Cloud Director 10.x: vApp Guest OS Customization Greyed Out at Catalog Level

  • Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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This is the personal blog of Mohamad Alhussein. It is dedicated to my views and opinions on the various areas of the datacenter while emphasizing virtualization. It also serves as a learning tool for me to document deployments, configurations, and share possible solutions for the issues I encounter.

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