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

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

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

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