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VMware vCloud Client for iPad released
Today the VMware vCloud Client for iPad has been released. To find out further information or to download this iPad from iTunes click here Listed below is an overview of what the application can do VMware vCloud Client for iPad | The Cloud at your Fingertips The VMware vCloud Client for iPad empowers VMware vCloud users to inspect their virtual machines (VMs), provision cloud computer systems (vApps), and perform basic workload operations – all from the convenience of an iPad. What can I do? Inspect: View your VMs and vApps, perform basic troubleshooting, and e-mail error logs as needed. Provision: Easily provision a cloud computer system from your catalog of vApps. Operate: Power cycle your VMs or possibly extend the lease. Key Features Simple Installation from App Store •Simple install onto your iPad from the Apple app store •Once installed, use the same vCloud URL and login credentials as used […]
vCloud Disaster Recovery
Its finally out there for the public to consume. As a lot of people will probably already know, a team of us in VMware have been working on putting together a vCloud infrastructure Disaster Recovery solution. Duncan Epping and Chris Colotti have wrote a blog article covering the whole aspect of the solution which can be viewed by clicking here The solution involves using VMware Site Recovery Manager to fail over the vCloud Management Cluster VMs as per the VMware vCloud Architecture Tool kit reference architecture. The diagram below demonstrates a high level overview of the solution: In essence, what happens is all the VMs running under the Management Cluster vCenter are all failed over to the secondary site using SRM, then utilising storage replication at the Resource cluster layer, all the vCloud workloads are also protected outside of SRM protection. This solution can be used to not only protect […]
Enable Lockdown Mode ESXi 5.0
This question is asked a lot. How do I enable lock down mode and what does it do. To enable lock down mode, there are two options. From the DCUI (Direct Console User Interface) From within vCenter My preffered option is through vCenter, it is very easy and you dont need to be in front of the host or have remote console access. To enable lock down mode through vCenter follow these steps: Login to vCenter Select the host Select the configuration tab Select Security Profile under software Scroll down to Lockdown mode Click Edit Tick Enable Lockdown Mode Click OK Lockdown mode is now enabled Please Note: Enabling Lockdown mode on an ESXi 5 host will force all users to login via the vCenter Server in order to manage their ESXi hosts. The table below shows what features are enabled and disabled with Lockdown mode (this was taken from Yellow-bricks) […]
Changing the IP address of a vCloud Director cell
Working on a solution with Chris Colotti and other colleagues, we came across a KB article that details how to change the IP address on a vCD cell. I had never thought about this previously, having never changed an IP address of a cell. When you build your vCD cells, you bind specific services to IP addresses. You need to make the database aware of these changes once you have re-ip’d the operating system. This KB Article explains the full procedure on how to do this. These are the steps how to reconfigure the vCD database from the KB article above: o change the IP address of an installed vCloud Director server: Ensure to shutdown all the cells.To shutdown a cell, run this command from within the Red Hat system which is hosting the vCloud Director software:service vmware-vcd stop Change the column value of PRIMARY_IP in the CELLS table to the […]