Although I posted this back in July, I regularly get asked about the location of the official VMware vCloud Director documentation, so thought I would post it again, with a couple of direct links to version 1.5 documentation. All the available documents can be found at this link: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html vCD 1.5 installation guide click here vCD 1.5 Administration guide click here vCD 1.5 Users Guide click here
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PowerCLI for vCloud Director – Have your say !
PowerCLI for vCloud Director–Have your say ! VMware have recently announced a survey on the PowerCLI site, this has been setup to poll people for what they think would be the best way to introduce cmdlets for vCloud Director, personally I think it’s a great move and proves that VMware really does listen to their customers opinions. Their questions not only ask how you would like the vCloud cmdlets distributed but also if you would prefer common objects like VMs and Users to be new cmdlets based towards vCloud director or to add these as additional parameters to the existing cmdlets. Personally when answering these questions I have to remind myself of a few things and ask myself a few questions: vCloud Org users or tenants are going to be interested in different things than a vSphere admin, for example, does a tenant care about the details of the datastore […]
VMware vCloud KB articles released this week
Thought I would share the links to some important KB articles that have been released this week. Hope they help. Special thanks to Michael Haines for sending this to me. Enabling centralized logging of vCloud Director cell logs (2004519) Date Published: 11/14/2011 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2004519
vCloud Ecosystem components explained – Part 2
Recently I wrote an article about the overall “vCloud EcoSystem”, and what components were required to build out a full Cloud environment. The article briefly touches on the availability of some of these components. A quick extract is shown below: So why are these components important? When designing a vCloud environment, you need to take into consideration the availability of certain components, like vCenter for example. This is no longer a management tool that is used to manage your virtual infrastructure. This is a critical component of your vCloud environment passing through all the operational commands a consumer initiates using vCloud Director. How do you protect vCenter? There are 6 databases in a vCloud Ecosystem. How do you protect all the databases? Every component shown above with the exception of ESXi and vCloud Connector have a database that have relationships with each other. If you loose a vCenter database and […]
vCloud Director appliance launched for evaluations
On Friday the VMware vCloud Director virtual appliance was launched. This appliance has been designed to enable you to evaluate and test vCloud Director. If you want to stand up a small PoC environment then this is the appliance for you. Some key features of the appliance: Auto generates certificates Auto configures local database Auto configure HTTP and console proxy NIC’s This appliance really does make it easy for someone with no vCloud Director knowledge to simply stand up a small cloud. This appliance is purely designed for evaluations, so if you are looking for something to deploy in production then this is not the appliance for you. You would not be able to attach vCenter Chargeback to this appliance for example, due to the configuration of the local database. If used in conjunction with the vCenter appliance you could have a fully working within one hour of deploying the […]