vcloud director 5.5 new features

VMware vCloud Director 5.5 new features

With the announcement of VMware vCloud Director 5.5 I thought it would be a good idea to list the new features that are included in vCloud Director 5.5.  I would like to thank my colleague Ananda Kammampati for producing this extensive list. vCloud Director 5.5 new features Official support for Virtual Appliance form factor (but still not in production) Catalog Sharing and Synchronizing Versioning support vApp Provisioning and Lifecycle Support for cloning of running vApps with memory state Added OVF import/export features VCD 5.5 Virtual Appliance The Virtual appliance form factor of VCD 5.5 is now officially supported, however full support does not mean it is available for deployment in Production environments. Catalog Sharing and Synchronizing VCD 5.5 Administrator has the ability to limit the organizations with which one can share the catalogs.  It can share the catalogs between VCD instances. This works in a Publisher/Subscriber model Catalogs can be […]

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VMworld 2013 recap – Day 1

The day began with meeting up with Aidan Dalgleish and Kamau Wanguhu at the Hilton lobby, with us putting last minute changes to our slide deck for session VSVC7371.  Well mainly it was Aidan being the OCD expert he is putting last minute changes to slide deck.  We went straight to the speaker lounge and updated the presentation. Keynote After grabbing breakfast it was time to head to the keynote.  This was going to be the first keynote Pat Gelsinger presented.  I enjoyed this keynote, it was a different angle to what we have seen in the past from Paul Maritz, Pat poked fun at himself, showing off pictures of him as a dragon slayer among others.  It was good fun.  Then the moment came in the keynote where Pat announced the general availability of vSphere 5.5 and I was able to publish two of my articles I have had […]

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Configure Disk Redundancy VMware VSAN – Virtual SAN

This article demonstrates demonstrates how to configure disk redundancy VMware VSAN and is a follow on post from my How to enable VMware VSAN The previous article showed how to configure a vSphere cluster for use with VMware VSAN. Configure Disk Redundancy in VMware VSAN When we configure Disk redundancy in VMware VSAN we do not setup any hardware based RAID configuration (remember the design consideration, this was a pre-requisite to have Pass-Through RAID Controllers). So how do we ensure data protection? VMware VSAN uses Storage policies to do this. These can be found in vCenter Home -> Rules and Profiles -> VM Storage Profiles. Using VM Storage Profiles you can assign capabilities to storage. In a Cloud environment, we like to use Gold, Silver and Bronze to determine our storage capabilities. We can easily create these policies to now match the capabilities of the storage. We have a number […]

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VMware VSAN – Virtual SAN – How to configure

This article shows how to enable a VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) cluster within VMware vSphere.  If you are unfamiliar with VSAN, and what it is, I recommend reading the following articles. Duncan Epping’s Tech Preview of Distributed Storage Cormac Hogan’s Distributed Storage Tech Preview Lets start off by looking at the Pre-requisites of VMware VSAN, what do we need in place before we begin the configuration. Pre-requisites There are a number of pre-requisites that are needed, prior to configuring a vSphere cluster to participate as a VSAN.  The following list shows the minimum requirements to implement a VSAN. Minimum of three hosts. Each storage* host has a minimum of one SSD and one spindle hard disk. Each storage* host has a Pass-thru RAID controller as specified in the HCL.  The RAID controller must be able to present disks directly to the host without a RAID configuration. 10GB Network.  (1GB network […]

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VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit – vCAT Book released

I am pleased to announce that my first book I co-authored has been released on Amazon.  This is really exciting news, which I am extremely pleased about. The book is titled VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT): Technical and Operational Guidance for Cloud Success.  This has been quite a long journey for a lot of us, and we have spent many a long hour writing or editing for this book, and the paper version available on vmware.com. The vCAT book synopsis: The complete vCAT printed reference: knowledge, tools, and validated designs for building high-value vCloud® solutions The vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) brings together validated designs, tools, and knowledge for architecting, implementing, operating, and consuming modern vCloud infrastructure based on the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). vCAT has already helped hundreds of VMware customers succeed with vCloud. Now, pioneering VMware architect John Arrasjid has integrated essential vCAT information into a definitive printed […]

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