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 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 […]
vCloud Director Plugin available for vCenter Orchestrator
Yesterday the vCloud Director Plugin was launched for vCenter Orchestrator. This is a feature rich plugin that allows you to orchestrate everything from deploying a catalog, to creating a pVDC, through to deleting users. Download now to release the potential of orchestration in your cloud. This version improves the performance and addresses a number of issues including full support for all new API features of the VMware vCloud API 1.5, including VPN, 5-tuple firewall, linked clones in vDCs, and full feature parity with the API. Additionally, it includes support for triggering workflows based on receiving vCloud messages from events in vCloud Director, as well as workflows that support vCloud Director’s blocking tasks mechanism. These mechanisms allow Orchestrator workflows to dynamically respond to events in your cloud, and allow you to implement task-based integrations with third-party systems. Click here to go to the downloads page.