by Marc Roeleveld | Nov 25, 2019 | vCloud Director
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 shown below: vCD design with internal PostgreSQL databases Prerequisites Before we... 
by Arjen Kloosterman | Nov 21, 2019 | Automation, Terraform, 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 mentioned in a previous blog post this tool offers even more possibilities in terms... 
by Marc Roeleveld | Nov 19, 2019 | vCloud Director
At a certain point during the deployment of vCloud Director you have to submit a “NFS mount for transfer file location” as shown below. In this article I will explain what it’s for and demonstrate how you can configure a NFS share on Windows Server... 
by Arjen Kloosterman | Oct 11, 2019 | PowerCLI, vCloud Director
In this blog I will show you how to deploy a vApp using PowerCLI.One of the cool things about vCloud is that you can create vApp templates.An example of a template could be a set of servers that is always needed when deploying a new environment. For instance a file... 
by Arjen Kloosterman | Sep 8, 2019 | Automation, PowerCLI, PowerShell, vCloud Director
In this blog I will introduce you to some of the basic functionality of using PowerCLI with vCloud. Installing PowerCLI The most recent version of VMware PowerCLI is available in the PowerShell Gallery so you can install the PowerCLI with one command: Install-Module... 
by Marc Roeleveld | Sep 6, 2019 | vCloud Director
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... 
