Thought I would share the links to some important KB articles that have been released this week. Hope they help. Installing or upgrading to vCloud Director 1.5 fails in the RHEL 5 Update 7 operating system (2007405) http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007405 LDAP is configured, but group based authentication fails in vCloud Director 1.0.1 (2009317) http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2009317 Upgrading to vCloud Director 1.5 fails with the error: Error executing SQL statement: “INSERT INTO role_right (role_id, right_id) VALUES (102, 210)” (2008999) http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2008999
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BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive Recording available
For those of you who missed mine and Chris Colotti’s brown bag hosted by ProfessionalVMware.com last night the recordings are available on iTunes now. To download any of the previous BrownBags click here There is also videos, slides and links available on ProfessionalVMware.com by clicking here BrownBag Video/Presentaion ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides vCloud Architecture BrownBag View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware Some links to follow up the session Sysprep KB’s: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026614 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026317 http://4sysops.com/archives/skiprearm-use-vista-indefinitely-long-without-activation/ Maximums: VMware vCloud Director 1.5 & 5.1 Config Maximums http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf vCloud Cloning series: Gotcha: vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 1 (Overview) vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 2 (Deep Dive) vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 3 (Design Considerations) vCloud “Eco-System” vCloud Ecosystem components explained http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/components-for-a-vcloud-deployment/ (A bit older was my original cut at what Dave has now) vCat http://www.vmware.com/cloud-computing/cloud-architecture/vcat-toolkit.html
vCloud Brown Bag session at VMwareProfesional.com
This Wednesday at 10.30pm GMT (5:30PM Eastern time) join Chris Colotti and I for a vCloud Brown Bag session on with VMware Professional. We will be discussing the following topics and we will have access to Chris’s lab for some limited show and tell. vCloud “Eco-System” of Components All the possible building blocks Importance of Orchestration and knowledge depth Solution in Practice Based on vCAT 2.0 Published Catalog vApp Cloning Based on 3-part “clone wars” blog posts Open Q&A on anything vCloud Register by clicking here
vCloud Ecosystem components explained
During VMworld Chris Colotti and I presented quite a few group discussions on VMware vCloud. During these discussions some people were amazed to find out how many components/products are involved in making up the vCloud environment. When planning on building a VMware vCloud, you are not just installing vCloud Director and pointing it to vSphere, you are designing/building a whole Ecosystem. The list below shows which components are used in building a full vCloud environment. They are listed in order of priority. vSphere ESXi vCenter vCloud Director vShield Manager vCenter Chargeback Vcenter Update Manager vCenter Orchestrator vCloud Service Manager vCloud Connector 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 […]
Top 9 new vCloud Director 1.5 features
During the VMworld sessions that Chris Colotti and I present the private vCloud architecture deep dive, we cover the top 9 new vCloud features included in version 1.5. Now I know vCD 1.5 was released a little while ago, but not everyone is aware of all the new features, so I thought I would list them here. As a small annecdote Chris and I came up with this list late one night in Vegas before our session. We had planned on listing the top 10, but could only manage our top 9 🙂 Microsoft SQL Database Support vShield Edge VPN and Static Routing support vShield Edge 5-Tupple Firewall API Call-outs with blocking messaging Elastic Virtual Datacenter Fast Provisioning vSphere 5 Support Custom Guest Properties Third Party VLAN Backed and VCD-NI