Todays topic is VMware Cloud Director inter-tenant routing with a NSX-T backed provider VDCs (pVDC). The reason for writing this post is that some use-cases require routed connectivity between Org VDCs that may or may not be part of the Read more…
In the second part of the Cloud Director tidbits series, I dive into the deployment of the VCD appliance using OVFtool. In hindsight I should have used it much sooner, since deploying the VCD OVA using the vSphere Client wizard Read more…
After the release of VMware Cloud Director 10.1 (yes, you read it correctly, the lowercase “v” is gone now), it was time to re-installed my lab environment a. Because of the new name, the acronym is now slightly different (VCD Read more…
The SSD tier in my lab became quite full in the beginning of this year, so the search began for some expansion. All 8 hot-swap slots in my single node lab server are occupied so, it needed to be an Read more…
The second part of this topic in the “vCloud Director Identity and Access Management” series touches the “per Org VDC” permission feature. I decided to split the topic into a multi-part series due to the length of the original one. Read more…
Since a while now, customers show an increasingly interest in data-at-rest encryption. vSphere has build-in encryption features since the 6.5 version. I wrote this post to show how Equinix SmartKey can help implementing these encryption features without buying HSM appliances Read more…
After a recent Windows related update, I noticed that files were not synchronizing anymore on my desktop. After a quick look into the recent changes, I discovered that on the 17th of February the latest Windows cumulative update was installed. Read more…
Background In this post I want to share with you the possibilities to remove problematic ESXi based Transport Nodes running NSX-T 2.4+ manually from NSX Manager. Especially including the nodes NSX configuration and accompanying VIBs. To be clear, this should Read more…
(Update 4-2-2020: Rights Bundles section added) (Update 29-3-2020: Org VDC section added) Recently I had a meeting with a customer to discuss the possibilities within vCloud Director (vCD) to implement a suitable Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. IAM Solutions Read more…
Last week I was deploying a Debian 9 (Stretch) based Linux OVA from the Bitnami catalog. One of the first things to do after a deployment is to replace the DHCP assigned IP address with a static one. Deploying the Read more…