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CSE 2.6.1 Error: Default template my_template with revision 0 not found. Unable to start CSE server.
While trying to run my Container Service Extension 2.6.1 after a successful installation. I kept getting the following error when trying to run CSE “Default template my_template with revision 0 not found. Unable to start CSE server.” To fix this you will need to: Edit your CSE config.yaml file to include the right name of…
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Cloud Director App Launchpad Demo
Cloud Director App Launchpad enables Service Providers to offer a marketplace of applications within VMware Cloud Director. App Launchpad is a free plug-in for VMware Cloud Director that provides a user interface to easily access and launch applications from VMware Cloud Director content catalogs. Using App Launchpad, developers and DevOps engineers can launch applications to…
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VMware Cloud Architecture Toolkit 5.0 is here!!
Thanks to the great efforts of my colleague Martin Hosken, VMware Cloud Architecture Toolkit (Known as vCAT) is updated to version 5.0. vCAT has always been a great guide to our Cloud Providers on how to best architect/build their Cloud Providers stack. vCAT 5.0 is no exception and include tons valuable information for our Cloud…
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VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad 1.0 Step by Step Installation
As the VMware Cloud Director has been evolving and adding features to help cloud providers better serve their customers, and help them target new markets, we are introducing Cloud Director App Launchpad bundled as a free extension with Cloud Director 10.1. App Launchpad will allow the Cloud provider to offer a Curated catalog of applications…
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The VMware Cloud Director appliance deployment fails when you enable the setting to expire the root password upon the first login
As I have been trying to deploy the vCloud Director 10.1 in my home lab, I have faced the below errors, and I wanted to share with others the resolution in case you are facing it and have missed it in the release notes. “No nodes found in cluster, this likely means PostgreSQL is not…
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VMware Cloud Director 10.1 is here!
VMware Cloud Director 10.1 has just been released and ready for you to try! As we have got used to in the past few releases of vCloud Director, the amount of features added in each new release is substantial even in minor releases. VMware Cloud Director 10.1 is no different and comes with plenty of…
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Google Cloud joins Azure and AWS in offering VMware Cloud
VMware had been working hard lately on executing their vision: “Build, Run, Manage, Connect and Protect Any App on Any Cloud on Any Device.” If you have spoke to any of my colleagues lately or attended VMworld or any other VMware event, I am sure you have heard it or a slightly modified version of…
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VMware Cloud Provider Pod 1.5.0.x Update is here
Product Versions Deployed with Cloud Provider Pod had been updated to include vCloud Director 10.0. Below is the full Version changes: VMware ESXi and vCenter Server are updated to 6.7 Update 3 VMware NSX for vSphere is updated to 6.4.6 VMware vCloud Director is updated to 10 VMware vRealize Network Insight is updated to 5.0 VMware…
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vCloud Director 10.0 is here!!
For those who were following VMware vCloud Director Evolution lately, it has been developing quite fast and new features have been added continuously at a none matched speed. The development vCloud Director had over the past couple of years just amaze me as has surpassed what was delivered in 6 years development cycle previously. vCloud…
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Executing vRealize Orchestrator workflows using Rest API
I have been lately involved in conducting integration between vCloud Director and a Cloud Provider Market Place. The Cloud Provider wanted to use vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) for this integration, as there is different integrations point they wanted to integrate with beyond vCloud Director and they did not want to learn multiple APIs. What is nice…
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‘WIRE’ is a free self-paced learning platform to our Cloud Providers and Aggregation partners
VMware had released VMware WIRE for free to our Cloud Providers and Aggregators. It is a free self-paced learning platform with tons of amazing contents. WIRE offers VMware products and Solutions ennoblement for level (L100) sales level, (L200) Technical, and sometime (L300) Deep Technical. If you have been looking for great VCPP Training materials for…
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VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 Update
The long waited VMware vCloud Availability 3.0 will be released soon, so I thought to share some update about the exciting set of features of what’s coming. If you have been following up the evolution of VMware vCloud Availability, you will find many of your wishes and requests are materializing in vCAv 3.0. VMware vCloud…
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VMware Cloud Provider Pod 1.1 released
Great news, VMware Cloud Provider Pod 1.1 has been released on January 31, 2019. Now the new release include a more recent versions of VMware Cloud Provider stack as below: vSphere 6.7u1 vSAN 6.7u1 NSX 6.4.4 vCloud Director 9.5.0.1 vCloud Director Extender 1.1.0.2 vRealize Orchestrator 7.5 vRealize Operations 7.0, including Multi-Tenant App 2.0 VMware vRealize Operations…
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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…
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vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.5 is here!
The vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.5 has been made available today! vCAv C2C 1.5 has come with a number of great enhancements highlighted below: An improved user interface that can be embedded into vCloud Director and allows tenant and service provider users to perform DR operations and monitor DR environments from within vCloud Director. Service…