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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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VMware Cloud Director 10.1.1 – One or more VC/NSXs have been detected to be disconnected

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

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…

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VMware Cloud Director 10.x: Org and OrgVDC Creation

  • Posted on August 24, 2020August 25, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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VMware Cloud Director 10.x Integration with vCenter 7.x and NSX-T 3.x

  • Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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Create Geneve-Backed Provider VDC in Cloud Director 10.x

  • Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

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…

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Configure NSX-T 3.x Load Balancer for Cloud Director 10.x Cells

  • Posted on August 22, 2020August 22, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

As I started my cloud director (formerly vCloud director) journey, I am following a learn-by-doing approach as I want to set up my cloud director environment and blog about it while i am progressing and gaining more in depth knowledge…

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Delete a vSAN Datastore after a failed VCSA Bootstrap Installation

  • Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

So, I was recently deploying vCenter server appliance VCSA 6.7 while bootstrapping the installation onto one of the ESXi hosts. I faced an issue with the VCSA installation which left me with a vSAN datastore created on the target ESXi…

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NSX-T: Configure Network Address Translation (NAT)

  • Posted on December 24, 2019December 24, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Introduction Network address translation (NAT) in NSX-T Data Center can be configured on Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateways. Different types of NAT rules can be configured: Source NAT (SNAT): Supported on Tier-0/Tier-1 gateways running in active-standby mode. Destination NAT (DNAT): Supported…

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NSX-T: Configure DHCP Server

  • Posted on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

Recently I have been working with a NSX-T engagement in a customer environment where they have NSX-v for their production environment and they requested to implement NSX-T in their UAT environment to test NSX-T functionality prior to migrating the production…

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SRM 8.2: Failed to retrieve pairs from extension server at https://SRM-FQDN:9086/vcdr/vmomi/sdk

  • Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019
  • by Mohamad Alhussein

I deployed a BCDR solution for one of our customers based on vSphere replication and Site Recovery manager 8.x so that they will be able to protect the workloads running in site A and recover them to site B should…

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