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I thought I would write a quick How To on how to configure the public console proxy address for vCD when using a load balancer. When you use multiple vCD Cells or you have your vCD externally facing to the internet via a NAT’d connection, you need to tell vCD which IP address to present the Public Console proxy on.  This is a quick article on how to do this. 1) Login to vCD 2) Click the Administration button 3) In the Administration pane, select Public Addresses 4) Change the vCD public console proxy address to  the external NAT’d IP or to your load balancer IP if presenting internally 5) Click Apply You can also set how you want the external vCD public URL to appear on the public side.

Over the past few days, quite a few articles have been appearing about VMware vCloud Director, including some excellent networking articles from Duncan Epping yellow-bricks.com and a great architecture piece from Frank Dennemanfrankdenneman.nl but I havent seen anything about how to deploy a VMware vCloud Director environment with resilience or high availability, so thought I would write an overview of the basic design. So within the VMware Cloud Team we have taken a building block approach to deploying vCloud Infrastructure. By using this approach a resilient infrastructure can be guaranteed. A building block approach will enable the environments to easily scale horizontally. Building blocks within a vCD environment are referred to as “Resource Groups”. A vCD environment consists of all components needed to run a VMware vCloud excluding the underlying vSphere infrastructure: • VMware vCloud Director (vCD) • VMware vShield Manager • VMware Chargeback • VMware vCenter (supporting the Resource […]

A colleague of mine reminded some of us about the VMware vCloud Director Communities forum today. It is an excellent forum in which you can post your questions and find answers on VMware vCloud Director and find more links to documents and information on the product. A very helpful and useful resource for anyone looking to deploy or evaluate VMware vCloud Director. Click the link below and begin your VMware vCloud Director journey. http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vcd;jsessionid=316FDEB0D54607B9665115221E74C308?view=overview

While working in our test lab today, I thought I would take some screenshots for people to see VMware vCloud Director first hand, not everyone will be at a stage ready to deploy into a test environment.  Let me know if you find these useful.  Hover over the thumbnails for a brief description, and click to enlarge.