In vCloud Director 8.10 for Service Providers, VMware introduced the ability to configure VM Affinity Rules via the vCloud API and vCloud Director portal. This effectively allows users to setup th...
vCloud Independent Disks: Part 3 - Updating Disks
In order to make a change to an Independent Disk, you have to the XML representation of the disk as it is now, make your changes to the XML and then send the updated XML back into the vCloud API. ...
vCloud Independent Disks: Part 2 - Using Disks on VMs
In the previous post (vCloud Independent Disks: Part 1 – Creating Disks) I went through how to create a 50Gb Indepenedent disk called “IndDisk_DBFiles1”. In this post, I will show the process for a...
vCloud Independent Disks: Part 1 - Creating Disks
The Independent Disk feature in vCloud Director is, despite the name, something completely different from an Independent Disk in vSphere. This quote straight from the From the vCloud Architecture T...
vCloud API and PowerCLI – Import/Export vShield Edge NAT rules
In a previous post I wrote about exporting and importing firewall rules from vShield Edges using the vCloud API and PowerCLI. I also needed to be able to do the same with the NAT rules but for som...
vCloud API and PowerCLI - Import/Export vShield Edge FW Rules
There’s been a few occasions where I’ve needed to do either bulk uploads of firewall rules to a vShield Edge or be able to keep the ruleset on two vShield Edges in sync with each other (e.g. for DR...
VCSA on VMware Workstation (with DNS Hostname)
Today I wanted to build a new vSphere 6 lab, using the vCenter Server Appliance rather than installing another Windows Server VM. I do all my lab stuff on a powerful desktop machine running VMware...
Zerto - Missing CD-ROM Drives
I love Zerto, it’s by far the best VM replication tool out there. One niggle though - recovered/migrated VMs lose their CD-ROM drives. According to support, it is to do with maintaining compatibi...
Importing and Exporting vApp FW Rules
I’m involved in a fair amount of migration work at the moment, moving customers between cloud platforms on vCloud Director. I’ve been using Zerto to do the replication/failover which works really ...