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  • How to find vCenter SHA-256 fingerprints for VMware Data Service Manager 9.0

    How to find vCenter SHA-256 fingerprints for VMware Data Service Manager 9.0

    I have been reached out by couple of our partners lately who were testing VMware Data Service Manager 9.0. They seem to easily follow the instructions to install the VMware Data Service Manager 9.0 plugin except the part where it asks to “Enter the vCenter SHA-256 thumbprint. Enter the value in uppercase letters and colon delimitation. Do…

  • vCD External Networks Creation fail: Gateway cannot be equal to the network definition

    I have a Cloud Provider involving me lately, as they kept getting the error below every time they tried to create an External Network in vCloud Director 9.5. “Gateway cannot be equal to the network definition” It was an interesting error message especially in my customer case, where they were confident of providing the right…

  • VMware Cloud Availability 1.0.1.2 Compatibility Matrix

    VMware Cloud Availability (vCAv) is a solution provided by VMware to Service Providers to offer DRaaS with VMware Cloud Director(vCD) as a target. Two features that makes VMware vCloud Availability valuable to service providers are: It support multi-tenancy out of the box: This means the Service Provider will not have to acquire a separate hardware…

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV-M Demo

    It seems Red Had is shifting their focus from Xen as their virtualization platform to KVM. Their new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualizaiton solution is based on KVM. It seems that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualizaiton Solution, when combined with their new management tool called RHEV-M will offer many advanced features. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Solution seems…