This post is born out of a very simple curiosity. My experience with VCPP based cloud provider has been such that we always enabled THIN type disk provisioning. Its obvious that if we disable the THIN Provisioning, all the New VM’s will have THICK provisioned disk but was not sure whether Lazy Zeroed or Eager … Read more
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
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
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
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
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