Upgrade the vCloud Director Appliance 9.7 to vCloud Director Appliance 10.0

As per the workflow mentioned in the primary post, this is the 3rd and final step towards our upgrade. Important notes and prerequisites: Before starting upgrade, ensure that all nodes in database high availability configuration are in a good state. If your deployment has more than 1 application cells and configured with DB HA, then … Read more

Upgrade vCloud Director from 9.0 to 10.0

While planning this upgrade, i learned lot of important factors which i am trying to share through this post. Upgrade Workflow: My Target is to upgrade from Red hat based vCD 9.0 using external MS SQL DB to Appliance based vCD 10.0 using Embedded vPostgreSQL DB for which i need to explore the upgrade workflow. … Read more

vCD 9.7 plugin Integration with vRO 7.6 !

To automate Day 2 actions of vCD, vRO is one of the primary tools used in industry and this blog is going to show Integration and Configuration of vCD Plug-in with vRO. Note: Prerequisite of this action is to have vRO installed and integrated with vSphere/vRA authentication. I am excluding the installation of vRO and … Read more

Create Custom Role with specific rights in vCD!

Quite common requirement seen across many Tenants is to have “Custom Role” for there user with some custom “Rights“. So i decided to write about it. Occasionally requirement can be meet using the Predefined Roles which are: Organization Administration Catalog Author vApp Author vApp User Console Access Only Sometimes, we create a Custom role with … Read more