In Part 1 we covered how to deploy bitnami Cassandra image on vCenter servers. Now it’s time to configure the Cassandra database and vcloud director cell. Configuration of Cassandra Open the firewall ports so the nodes can communicate with each other and also vCloud Cell with these nodes We are going to make some configuration […]
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 interface enhancements
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 has been with us since October 15 2020 bringing new features In this post I cover UI Enhancements: Quick Search; Advisories; Certificate Management showing how will simplify and speed up some experiences VMware Cloud Director version 10.2 includes the following: NSX-T Advanced Functional Parity: NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi), Distributed Firewall , VRF-lite, Cross VDC […]
Removing missing ESXi host from VMware Cloud Director
Working with VMware Cloud Director for traditional vSphere administrator teams could generate the need of doing a re-cap of how to perform maintenance of hosts. We have seen on different environments that engineers performing ESXi host patching, updates and other lifecycle management including adding and removing hosts they tent to miss checking the host health […]
Configure vCloud Director to use Google Identity as SAML provider
If you want to import users and groups from a SAML identity provider to your vCloud organization, you need to configure your system organization with a SAML identity provider to establish a mutual trust by exchanging metadata.. Imported users can log in to the system organization with the credentials established in the SAML identity provider. […]
Configure vCloud Director to use IBM Cloud Identity as SAML provider
If you want to import users and groups from a SAML identity provider to your vCloud organization, you need to configure your system organization with a SAML identity provider to establish a mutual trust by exchanging metadata.. Imported users can log in to the system organization with the credentials established in the SAML identity provider. […]
How to effortless delete 1000’s audit events in vCloud Director DB
During recent vCloud Director cell upgrades and database migrations it was noticed the size of DB increased drastically and the amount of time needed to migrate a DB from SQL Server database to PostgreSQL database specially during creation and data migration of TABLE “audit_event” Normally I let this process run unattended until it completes minutes later […]
VEEAM Cloud Connect DR to IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions- | Part2
In our previous post “VEEAM Cloud Connect DR to IBM Cloud Part 1” we created a replication job using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions (vCloud Director) and VEEAM Cloud Connect. This second part will cover the creation Failover plan for a single VM and its execution Note: Veeam Cloud Connect Replication supports failover and failback […]
VEEAM Cloud Connect DR to IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions-Part1
In this post we are going to create a replication job using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions (vCloud Director) and VEEAM Cloud Connect. We hope you enjoy it! The scenario consist of a customer running a vSphere infrastructure and wanting to migrate or recovery virtual machines to a cloud provider offering IaaS with vCloud Director […]
Configure External Access to the vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance Database
We were attempting to access vCD 9.7 appliance database from a server running PGAdmin without success until we followed some of the steps described in VMware Article: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/9.7/com.vmware.vcloud.install.doc/GUID-3A3BB3A9-F6F3-47BA-A785-2B99882A692B.html During a migration to the vCloud Director appliance, or if you plan to use a third party database backup solution (in our case PGAdmin), you might want […]
Upgrade Postgres to version 10 for vCloud Director 10 compatibility
You are here because you are working on your vCloud Director upgrade to one of latest version could be 9.7 or 10 and realised you need to upgrade your PostgreSQL to a newer major version for this. In our demo cloud we had PostgreSql version 9.5 with vCloud Director 9.1 so was about time to […]