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Cloud Director: Distributed Firewalling with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the third one in this latest Cloud Director series. Previous ones in this series Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearMarch 7, 2022 ago
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Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Let’s start with the next one in this latest Cloud Director series. Other posts in this series Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearFebruary 16, 2022 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director tidbits: DHCP Modes with NSX-T

In the beginning of 2022, I attended the “VMware Cloud Director: Advanced Networking with NSX-T Data Center” training for VCD 10.2. The training touched on a couple of topics, that are blog worthy. Other posts in this latest Cloud Director series are: Cloud Director: Comparing Data Center Group network features Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 yearFebruary 9, 2022 ago
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Getting a Cloud Director TLS “A” Grade – Part 2

In part 1 of this blog post, I wrote about the background of TLS. In this second part I show you how VCD (VMware Cloud Director) and often also the Load Balancer can be configured to enhance security, integrity and page speed. In this multi-part series I hope you benefit Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsSeptember 1, 2020 ago
Cloud Director

Getting a Cloud Director TLS “A” Grade – Part 1

The Let’s Encrypt certificate I use for the Cloud Director portal running in my lab environment expired lately, therefore a renewal was needed. While renewing the certificate and checking my TLS config, it was not up to par with modern standards and that needed for be fixed. While writing down Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsSeptember 1, 2020 ago
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Cloud Director tidbits: Deploy VCD appliances with OVF Tool

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 is quite a hassle. Part one: Changing the sitename It Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsApril 27, 2020 ago
Cloud Director

Cloud Director tidbits: Changing the site name

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 instead of vCD). During the re-install and config process I Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsApril 19, 2020 ago
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vCloud Director Identity and Access Management – Part 2

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. The first part can be found using the link below: Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsMarch 29, 2020 ago
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vCloud Director Identity and Access Management – Part 1

(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 are imported to many customers that have teams with multiple Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsDecember 3, 2019 ago
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