The ever expanding vCloud Ecosystem - Monitoring

The ever expanding vCloud Ecosystem – Monitoring

I have written previously about the vCloud Ecosystem (part1) (part2), which combines multiple products to make up a vCloud environment. What I want to cover in this article is VMware vC Ops and VMware vFrabic Hyperic integration into this ecosystem product stack. Where do these products fit in? When we look at vC Ops and Hyperic, we need to look at two different aspects of monitoring. Availability and Performance. vC Ops gives us the ability to gather performance data, while Hyperic is used to provide application availability. So how do they integrate? The above diagram demonstrates the different integration points between the vCloud stack.  This can be further expanded upon to also include availability monitoring of the other vCloud components, however this can also be achieved simply by having all these vCloud Management VMs running in a Management Cluster vCenter as per the vCloud Architecture Toolkit and using a vCenter […]

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Taking on a new challenge

After two years at VMware working in the Centre of Excellence (CoE) I can now officially announce that I will be starting a new role in April. I will be staying in Global Technology Solutions (GTS), but moving over to the Solutions and Services Engineering team working as a Senior Solutions Architect. I will be focusing on taking the work that my colleagues in the CoE have currently developed(and are continuing to), and making this widely adoptable for the field and partners in the form of best-practices and developing technical presentations to give to the field, partners and customers. This is going to be another exciting challenge, working with new people (most of whom I already know). I have loved my time in the CoE (and made some really good friends), so it is with a heavy heart I am leaving. However I will not be moving far staying in […]

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VMware vCloud Director 1.5.1 released

Yesterday VMware released an update to vCloud Director. Listed below you will see some of the new features: Firewall rules can be configured with CIDR blocks, IP ranges, and port ranges Added system notification for lost connection to AMQP host Enhanced cell management tool and log collection script Support for AES-256 encryption for VPN tunnels Increased the retention maximum for vCenter Chargeback history The new release also supports the latest vSphere releases vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 ESXi 5.0 Update 1 vShield 5.0.1 To read the full release notes, click here You can download the latest vCloud Director binaries by clicking here

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VMware vCloud Director 101 - Networking - Part 4

VMware vCloud Director 101 – Networking – Part 4

This is part 4 of the vCloud Director 101 posts I have recently been writing.  This article covers the vCloud Director Networking concepts and how they fit together. You can read the previous posts by clicking here. To understand some of the terms contained within this post, you need to read the first post that discuses the terms “consumers” and “providers”.  We will be using these terms regularly throughout this article. vCloud Director network layers We will start by discussing the three different networking layers.  These are: External Networks Organization Networks vApp Networks These networks are managed at two different layers: Consumers and Providers. External Networks and Organization Networks are created and managed by the Cloud Admins or Providers, where as vApp Networks are created and managed by the users or consumers of vCloud Director. So what is an External Network? A Network that is external to VMware vCloud Director […]

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Auto Deploy GUI fling

Auto Deploy GUI fling

Back in February Max Daneri released his Auto Deploy GUI fling.  This builds on the success of his PXE Manager fling released last year.  Lots of other blogs have already reported this fling, but I have been asked three times this week where they can download it from.  I will be writing a blog post soon on how to actually use this fling, much the same way I did with Max’s PXE Manager. Auto Deploy GUI is a front end interface to the Auto Deploy/Stateless infrastructure. Features The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. Some of the features provided through the GUI include the ability to add/remove Depots, list/create/modify Image Profiles, list VIB details, create/modify rules to map hosts to […]

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