What’s New in Customer apprise for VMware Cloud providers?

As VMware Cloud provider, we send notifications to our customers covering information about “New services, Features and Planned Portal downtime“. Starting VMware Cloud Director 10.2, VMware has released new feature called Advisory through which custom messages can be published to customer’s directly on the tenant login page of VMware Cloud Director. Priority levels of Advisory: … Read more

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

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

Migrating vCD with an External Microsoft SQL Database to vCD Appliance with embedded vPostgreSQL DB.

As per the workflow mentioned in the primary post, this is the 2nd step towards our upgrade. Important notes and prerequisites: Ensure the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.7 in completed successfully and cells are rebooted. Create a New NFS mount point to be used by the new Deployment If you want the new vCloud Director … Read more

Upgrade a vCloud Director Installation from 9.1 to 9.7 on Red hat VM with external MS SQL DB

As per the workflow mentioned in the primary post, this is the 1st step towards our upgrade. Important notes and prerequisites: Interoperability check with Database, vCenter,ESXi and NSX. Need root password for the vCD cell OS. Take Backup of the MS SQL DB Download and copy the upgrade binary to all the vCD cells in … Read more