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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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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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‘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 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 Cloud to Cloud DR capabilities is here!
Today, VMware has announced the long waited vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR 1.0. This is a thrilling news to many of our VCPP service providers partners who wanted a VMware native Cloud to Cloud DR/migration solution for vCloud Director based clouds. Below is few highlights of the newly introduced vCloud Availability for Cloud-to-Cloud DR. Simple Deployment: …
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vCD 9.1 Just Went GA with Great New Features
Although vCloud Director 9.1 is released less than 6 months after vCloud Director 9.0, it is packed with tons of enhancements and new features. It is hard to believe it is just a minor release. Below is a recap of the top feature of the vCD 9.0 release: HTML 5 Tenant Portal Enhancement. While in vCD…
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vCloud Director Client Integration Plugin is not working
I have been asked repeatedly lately on how to get the vCloud Director Client Integration Plugin (CIP) working. I wanted to put this post out there to help you getting it working in no time. It is important to note that, the Client Integration Plugin (CIP) is only needed in vCD to carry out import…
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VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 2.0 what’s new
vCloud Availability 2.0 is available for download today here. vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 2.0 delivers the following key enhancements: vSphere 6.5 Support: Added support for vSphere 6.5 on the service provider side. This was missing in the previous release and many service providers were looking for it. The supported vSphere versions on the tenant side…
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vCloud Director 9.0 is Ready for Download
vCloud Director 9.0 has been announced at VMworld with some exciting enhancements. I am positive most of our VCPP (VMware Cloud Partner Program) partners will be looking forward to many of these features. Just in case you have missed it, VCPP (VMware Cloud Partner Program) is the new name for the VCAN(vCloud Air Network) Program. In this…
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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…