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…
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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…
Setup a NFS share for vCloud Director with Windows Server 2019
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…
The basics of vcd-cli
In this blog I will intruduce you into the basics of vcd-cli and multitude of possibilities this tool offers. vcd-cli is a command line interface for vCloud director and is being maintained…
Deploy a vApp using PowerCLI
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…
vCloud PowerCLI/PowerShell basics
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…
Update vCloud Director to 9.7.0.3
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…
vCloud Director 9.7 – Issue with adding a new role
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….
vCloud automation tools
In this blog I will take you on a small tour around some of the vCloud automation tools out there. Possibly these tools and or languages are already in use in your…
vCloud Director 9.7 – Troubleshooting SMTP server settings
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…