I was having some issues to connect to my vCloud Director tenant via the API My connection attempt ended up in this error message: Couldn’t connect to cloud server with the provided…
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How to: Request and Install a Lets Encrypt Wildcard SSL on VMware Cloud Director 10.4
Intro In this article I will demonstrate how you can request and install a Wildcard SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt on VMware Cloud Director 10.4. Official VMware Documentation VMware Cloud Director 10.3…
How to deploy an OVA in Cloud Director
Yesterday I was in a call with a customer and we discussed uploading OVA’s into Cloud Director. I said sure that is no problem at all. Well then I started thinking how…
vCloud SAML authentication using Azure AD
So today I will show you how to setup vCloud SAML authentication using Azure AD. You can also use on prem AD’s with ADFS but I do not have that available at…
NSX Edge with vCloud director – Using aliases
In this blog I will show you how to create aliases for grouping servers with the NSX Edge in vCloud director. Using aliases makes firewall rules more meaningful because I can give…
Configuring SSL VPN-Plus in vCloud Director
This article shows how configuring SSL VPN-Plus on an NSX Edge in vCloud Director is done. Below you can find the specifics of my lab setup: Organization: vBlog.nl Org VDC: Org-VDC-vBlog.nl-01 NSX…
Upgrade to vCloud Director 10 appliance
In this article I will describe a procedure how you can upgrade to the vCloud Director 10 appliance. We’re going to perform an upgrade from vCloud Director 9.7.0.14534864 to version 10.0.0.14636284. The…
API versions supported by vCloud
So the other day I found an old script I created when vCloud 9.0 was still hip and happening. I was wondering if this script would still work with newer versions of…
Deploy vCloud Director 9.7 with 3 cells
In this article I will demonstrate how you can deploy vCloud Director 9.7 with three cells. In my example I will use the vCD appliances (.OVA) and the internal PostgreSQL database as…
Terraform for vCloud director
In this blog I will share with you a great tool I found that looks really interesting for automating daily tasks: Terraform for vCloud director. In addition to the automation tools I…