Configure NSX-T 3.x Load Balancer for Cloud Director 10.x Cells
As I started my cloud director (formerly vCloud director) journey, I am following a learn-by-doing approach as I want to set up my cloud director environment and blog about it…
Create Geneve-Backed Provider VDC in Cloud Director 10.x
VMware Cloud Director enables cloud providers to build secure, multi-tenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. Cloud Director introduces the virtual infrastructure resources to users through…
VMware Cloud Director 10.x Integration with vCenter 7.x and NSX-T 3.x
VMware Cloud Director as a cloud management platform (CMP) offers true multi-tenancy where each customer has a self-service tenant portal that will be used to provision workloads and other services….
VMware Cloud Director 10.x: Org and OrgVDC Creation
An organization is the fundamental vCloud director grouping that contains users, vApps that they create, and the resources that the vApps use. An organization is the top-level container in a…
VMware Cloud Director 10.1.1 – One or more VC/NSXs have been detected to be disconnected
As I already deployed cloud director 10.1.1 and integrated it with vCenter 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0. Things were working as expected and vCenter connection status was successful and connected until…
Cloud Director 10.x: vApp Guest OS Customization Greyed Out at Catalog Level
One of the latest things I tried to do recently in my VMware cloud director environment is to create a shared catalog with some imported vCenter OS templates to be…
Step-By-Step: Upgrade a Multi-Cell Cloud Director From 10.1 to 10.2
VMware Cloud Director 10.2 is generally available now with a lot of enhancements and features such as full use of NSX-T and delivering self-service functionality in Edge firewall and IP…
Step-by-Step: Deploy and Configure VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1
It has been a while I didn’t have time to write due to my relocation with my family to Dubai with all what it means from starting a new life…
VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1: Publishing & Subscribing to a Catalog
Most of service providers infrastructures have multiple Cloud Director instances running in multiple availability zones for availability requirements. In such case, managing multiple catalogs manually and keeping them all synchronized…
VCD 10.3.1: Cross-Cluster Workload Migration within the same elastic PVDC
I came into a scenario recently where we need to decommission a cluster from a provider PVDC where that cluster also contains workloads already provisioned by the customer through the…
VMware VCD 10.4.0: “NullPointerException” Error when Enabling NSX ALB Load balancing on Org Edge Gateway – vExpert Consultancy
As you may know, NSX ALB is the only available option that allows LBaaS offering through VCD when NSX-T is used as the network backing type for the OrgVDCs. The…
HTTPS LB for VCD 10.4.x on NSX ALB 22.1.1: “Unable To Perform Query” – VCD UI Access Issue – vExpert Consultancy
This post will not show you how to configure the HTTPS load balancer for VMware Cloud Director (VCD). There are multiple public articles that cover the details for such LB…
VMware Cloud Director 10.3.x VAMI Setup – NFS Mount Validation Failing – vExpert Consultancy
Recently I was deploying VMware Cloud Director as part of an engagement for a Cloud Provider customer and I faced a couple of issues connecting to their Linux NFS server….