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vCloud Director Monitoring – Which processes to watch

By admin on May 15, 2012 in Cloud Computing

Recently I wrote an article about Monitoring a vCloud Eco-System and a provided an overview of how you can monitor this Eco-system using vCenter Operations Manager and vFabric Hyperic. Since that article was released people have been asking which processes and services they should monitor on the vCD cells to provide availability metrics. The table below shows which processes should be monitored. The table also shows the location of the executable path. Process Name Executable Path vmware-vcd-watchdog /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ vmware-vcd-log-collection-agent /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ java /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/jre/bin/ privband /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ In-conjunction with the processes above, the three services listed below should also be monitored. vmware-guestd vmware-vcd-watchdog vmware-vcd-cell You can also monitor the availability of the http service of a vCD cell by following this url: https://{cellhostname}/cloud/server_status This will show you the following output on screen if accessed through a web browser.

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Some more vCloud Director 1.5 configuration maximums

By admin on May 3, 2012 in Cloud Computing

This is a re-post from the official VMware vCloud blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2012/05/some-more-vcloud-director-configuration-maximums.html A question was asked yesterday regarding some of the configuration maximums that are currently not listed in the vSphere 5 configuration maximums document. Having discussed with vCloud Engineering and Product Management it has been confirmed that these numbers are used to provide the supported scale of vCloud Director and can be published to the wider community. The information listed will assist consultants and architects to better understand the supported scale when designing there public and private vCloud infrastructures. # of Console sessions (concurrent) 300 # of Console sessions (active) 100 # of Cells 10 # of Logical Networks 10156 # of vApp Networks 2987 # of External Networks 524 # of Isolated Org Networks 2264 # of Public Org Networks 2005 # of Routed Org Networks 2376 # of Network Pools 10 # of Catalogs 1024 # of Media 1024 […]

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The ever expanding vCloud Ecosystem – Monitoring

By admin on March 26, 2012 in Cloud Computing

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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VMware vCloud Director 1.5.1 released

By admin on March 16, 2012 in Cloud Computing

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

By admin on March 7, 2012 in Cloud Computing, Featured

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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