This post is more for a reminder to myself. I am always forgetting where I need to mount the transfer LUN on vCloud Director cells. The transfer LUN is used for uploading and downloading, and can be NFS or other types of shared storage. It is only used for when you have more than one vCD cell. The location is /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer If anyone is interested in reading more about what the transfer mount is used for Jason Boche wrote a great article on it.
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The ever expanding vCloud Ecosystem – Monitoring
I have written previously about the vCloud Ecosystem (part1) (part2), which combines multiple products to make up a vCloud environment. What I want to cover in this article is VMware vC Ops and VMware vFrabic Hyperic integration into this ecosystem product stack. Where do these products fit in? When we look at vC Ops and Hyperic, we need to look at two different aspects of monitoring. Availability and Performance. vC Ops gives us the ability to gather performance data, while Hyperic is used to provide application availability. So how do they integrate? The above diagram demonstrates the different integration points between the vCloud stack. This can be further expanded upon to also include availability monitoring of the other vCloud components, however this can also be achieved simply by having all these vCloud Management VMs running in a Management Cluster vCenter as per the vCloud Architecture Toolkit and using a vCenter […]
VMware vCloud Director 1.5.1 released
Yesterday VMware released an update to vCloud Director. Listed below you will see some of the new features: Firewall rules can be configured with CIDR blocks, IP ranges, and port ranges Added system notification for lost connection to AMQP host Enhanced cell management tool and log collection script Support for AES-256 encryption for VPN tunnels Increased the retention maximum for vCenter Chargeback history The new release also supports the latest vSphere releases vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 ESXi 5.0 Update 1 vShield 5.0.1 To read the full release notes, click here You can download the latest vCloud Director binaries by clicking here
VMware vCloud Director 101 – Networking – Part 4
This is part 4 of the vCloud Director 101 posts I have recently been writing. This article covers the vCloud Director Networking concepts and how they fit together. You can read the previous posts by clicking here. To understand some of the terms contained within this post, you need to read the first post that discuses the terms “consumers” and “providers”. We will be using these terms regularly throughout this article. vCloud Director network layers We will start by discussing the three different networking layers. These are: External Networks Organization Networks vApp Networks These networks are managed at two different layers: Consumers and Providers. External Networks and Organization Networks are created and managed by the Cloud Admins or Providers, where as vApp Networks are created and managed by the users or consumers of vCloud Director. So what is an External Network? A Network that is external to VMware vCloud Director […]
VMware vCloud Director 101 – Concepts – Allocation Models – Part 3
This is part 3 of the VMware vCloud Director 101 blog posts I am writing. Part 1 I explained some of the basic principles of vCloud director, and Part 2 covers the Virtual Data Center concepts. Within Part 3 and Part 4 we are going to discuss some more of the concepts and constructs within vCloud Director. As with Part 2 this may cover some of the definitions you may already have heard of, like Reservation Pool or Pay-as-you-Go allocation models. Part 4 will then discuss vCloud Director Networking concepts. So lets jump straight in and start discussing Allocation Models. What are Allocation Models? Listed below is the definitions and usage of Allocation Models: Definition Allocation Models define how resources are allocated to an organisation. Allocation is actually the creation of a child resource pool to the provider vDC object (cluster or resource) in vSphere. Usage Allocation Models are chosen […]