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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…