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vCloud Director, received a major upgrade to help both Cloud Providers and their enterprise customers. The new vCloud Director 9.5 enhances easy and intuitive cloud provisioning and consumption by adding highly-requested capabilities including self-service data protection, disaster recovery, and container-orchestration for cloud consumers, along with multi-site management, multi-tenancy and cross-platform networking for Cloud Providers. With […]
”L1 Terminal Fault” vulnerabilities CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3615 Intel has disclosed details on a new class of CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities known collectively as “L1 Terminal Fault” that can occur on past and current Intel processors (from at least 2009 – 2018). Like Meltdown, Rogue System Register Read, and “Lazy FP state restore”, the “L1 Terminal […]
This article provides procedures to import a wildcard certificate to VMware vCloud Director. Each vCloud Director server requires two SSL certificates, one for the HTTP service and one for the console proxy service, in a Java keystore file. You can use certificates signed by a trusted certification authority, or self-signed certificates. Signed certificates provide the […]
Integrating with vCenter Server for backups and restores Following our previous post “Get started with Acronis Cloud” Backup” we are now ready to backup VMs from our source site and restore them on different location running vSphere infrastructure. Privileges for VM Backup and Recovery on vCenter Server These are the privileges a vCenter Server user […]
Recently BakingClouds received an invitation to trial Acronis Cloud Backup so here we go on testing what Acronis Cloud is offering for service providers and customers. Acronis offers backups and restore (BaaS) with a self-service portal where you login, download the agent for your server or application to backup, register the agent with your Acronis […]
This post outlines the process of troubleshooting issues when Update Manager Download Services is unable to download patches. Symptoms VMware Update Manager Download Services is unable to download patches When trying to initiate a download using vmware-umds -d command you see errors similar to: ‘httpDownload’ 4440 ERROR] [httpDownload, 732] Error 12175 from WinHttpSendRequest for url […]
VMware Update Manager provides centralised patch and version management for ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual appliances. Update Manager can be used to upgrade and patch ESXi hosts, install and update third-party software on hosts, upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and virtual appliances. This guide will cover the installation of VMware Update Manager 6.5 […]
For those who had the opportunity to use “Cloud Migration Portal” there are no good news. VMware informed is no longer supported and removed from VMWare Partner’s Portal Cloud Migration Portal used to manage and automate large scale migration projects to VMware vSphere and Cloud. CMP supported migration of workloads from physical to virtual, virtual […]
This quick post is about my experience during vcloud DB migration from MSSQL to Postgres. DB migration process should be straight forward if your cloud director cell is fairly new, never experienced database issues or never in your life you received an error in vCloud director GUI trying to delete an object (chances are low […]