This is a re-post from the official VMware vCAT blog site. Click here to read the original post by John Arrasjid VMware is pleased to announce the release of the vCAT 3.0 material. The VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit provides technical and operational guidance for cloud success. It includes the tools and guidance to build, operate, and consume an industry-leading cloud computing infrastructure solution. Unlike a Reference Architecture which focuses on one use case, this architecture toolkit includes support for multiple use cases and combinations of use cases. It is based on field experience with hundreds of customers and partners. It is validated by internal and external individuals and is supported by VMware as the de-facto reference for vCloud deployments. This is offered free of charge. It is available for download at http://www.vmware.com/go/vcat under the registration section. Look for the ‘Register’ link. Audience This release has expanded content for architects, administrators, and consumers […]
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Whats new in vCloud Director 5.1
Yesterday vCloud Director 5.1 was released for general availability. This release is a massive step forward with some really important new features available. The product page is available here and a great Whats new Technical whitepaper is available here Below is a brief list of the new features included: VXLAN vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) Storage Profiles Storage DRS support Snapshot support Elastic Virtual Datacenters expanding multiple subnets/clusters There are a lot more to list, and I would strongly recommend to read the Whats new Whitepaper.
vCloud Director 1.5 Performance and Best practices guide
I regularly get questions from people asking where the link to this document is. I thought I would include it on my blog so that people can find it easily. Click here to open the Performance and Best Practice guide. For those of you who are unsure what this guide is about, here is an excerpt from the webpage. VMware vCloud Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Lots of new features have been added to vCloud Director 1.5 to accelerate application delivery in the cloud. In this paper, we discuss some of the features of the vCloud Director 1.5 release, performance characterizations including latency trends, resource consumptions, sizing guidelines and hardware requirements, and performance tuning tips. Some highlights of vCloud Director performance and best practices include: When using fast provisioning (linked clones) and a VMFS datastore, do […]
vCloud Director Monitoring – Which processes to watch
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.
Some more vCloud Director 1.5 configuration maximums
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 […]