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In this article I will describe a procedure how you can update vCloud Director to 9.7.0.3. The update process takes around 10 to 15 minutes in total, based on my three vCD cell setup. The release notes for 9.7.0.3 can be found here. These are the specifics of my vCloud Director lab: Running version vCloud… Read More
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Introduction This article will help you solve an issue with vCloud Director 9.7 where it’s not possible to add a new role to the Role Based Access Control section of a tenant. This morning I wanted to add a new role to my tenant in vCloud Director. Normally the steps are easy: Navigate to vCloud… Read More
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In this blog I will explain how you can troubleshoot vCloud Director 9.7 SMTP settings when you receive a Fail – Error while configuring the SMTP server. Before we start, I would like to explain the different log files vCloud Director uses: All the logs for a cell can be found at /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs. vCloud Director… Read More
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In this article I will explain how to install public SSL certificates on vCloud Director 9.7 appliances. VMware points to this article to create and import a Signed SSL Certificate to the vCloud Director environment. The difference here is that most of us already own a SSL certificate. When this is the case, the mentioned… Read More
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In this article I will explain how you can easily identify and disconnect connected CD drives from VM’s on VMware vSphere using a simple PowerCLI command. Connected CD drives can cause issues when you for example want to remediate your VMware vSphere cluster using the Update Manager. Find and disconnect all CD drives from VM’s… Read More
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New category for VMware vCloud Director For the last eight months we’ve been writing articles about VMware Horizon DaaS, Powershell and PowerCLI . During this period we’ve received nice comments, good feedback, vExpert recognition and of course eternal fame. Because we’re primarily focused on Service Provider use cases, the logical next step for us is… Read More
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Hi all, Today I’d like to share the presentation I gave at the Dutch VMware User Group (NLVMUG) on March 21st 2019. Note to non-Dutch viewers: This session was given in Dutch so it will be hard to follow if you’re not speaking the language. If you have questions related to this recording, feel free… Read More
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Unfortunately I was away from my keyboard(s) the entire week, but today I’m back and happy to announce that Matthijs, Sander and myself have been rewarded with a VMware vExpert 2019 status last week! This is the first time we’ve received this reward and we are very proud & thankful for this. Of course it… Read More
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This is the second of a series of four lightboard videos about VMware Horizon DaaS. In our first video, Marc talked about the basics of VMware Horizon DaaS.If you missed this video, you can find it here: https://www.vblog.nl/vmware-horizon-daas-lightboard-series-01-the-basics/ In our second video, Marc will go into role separation and multi tenancy in VMware Horizon DaaS.… Read More
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This is the first of a series of four lightboard videos about VMware Horizon DaaS. First video Marc will talk about the basics of VMware Horizon DaaS.I hope you will like it. Check it out here! Finally, if you’re interested in more VMware Horizon DaaS content, please have a look at our Horizon DaaS explained… Read More
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