For migration purposes I needed to read all the firewall and NAT rules contained in a vCloud Director Edge Gateway. I created this PowerShell script to read all the info using the vCloud Director API since most examples I found searching through Google, only returned older scripts that would no longer run. This script has […]
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The Doctor is: IN
Many of us in IT read a lot of whitepapers, blogposts, how-to articles and view numerous Podcasts or training video’s to learn all the details about new products or features. Still, I don’t always get some of the details or can’t find the info I need. Meeting people at VMUGs or VMworld gives me the […]
VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking part 4 Cell Load balancing
Hope you enjoyed the previous series on VMware vCloud Director networking. In this post I will show you how to make the vCloud Cells available through a Load Balancer using the vShield Edge. By publishing two or more vCloud Cells behind a load balancer, it is easier to separate management network from user network and […]
vCloud disk space thresholds crossed
Oh those little things in life that sometimes cost you a whole day before you figured out that you we’re doing it all wrong. This was one of those days where I got alerted by some colleagues about vCloud Director reporting “Disk space red threshold crossed.” When looking at the “Datastores” in the “Manage & […]
vCloud can’t delete Organizational VDC
In my last VMware vCloud Director project I ran into an issue that I want to share with you. Initially the design was to create two OrgVDC to use different allocation models, but the resources would be almost the same because it was only a fairly small environment. I created one Edge Gateway and two […]