Central Point Of Management With VMware Cloud Director 10.x.

Time and again all Cloud architects/administrators are asked a simple question: “Can we host a dedicated vCenter for an individual customer?” Simple answer is “YES” but it comes with lot of challenges like how to give access to the customer & prioritizing on providing the same experience to the customer. In my opinion, Central Point … Read more

Enable vSAN encryption and VM encryption

Last post was about “How To Implement Hytrust KMS for vSAN & VM Encryption?” which covered implementation of Hytrust and configuration with vCenter. Scope of this post is to demonstrate on how to configure vSAN encryption and VM encryption! vSAN encryption: Now, we are all set to enable vSAN encryption and this activity can take … Read more

How to Implement & Configure Runecast with vCSA and NSX?

Scope of this blog post is to implement Runecast Version: 4.5.0.0 with vCenter 6.7 U3 and NSX 6.4.6 in my lab environment.Test the strength and capabilities for Predictive analytics & security compliance!Upcoming posts will cover – How to fix reported issues. To be frank, i didn’t anticipate that this implementation and configuration would be this … Read more

Cloud Director 10.1: CA-Signed SSL Certificates.

Agenda of this post is to share my 2-cents on certificate integration with Cloud director 10.1. If your question is, why VMware Cloud Director requires certificate then answer is “Secure communication between clients and servers and per cell it require two SSL certificates”. These two certificates are used for two different SSL endpoint: – For … Read more

Home Lab for VMware based Cloud

I switched my job in March 2020, right in the middle of pandemic with lot of excitement for my new endeavour. During pandemic, i thought the best way to utilize my spare time is to build my new home lab which will help me to explore new products/features of VMware and some other technologies as … Read more