VMware vCloud Director 1.5 release notes
Lots of people have asked me where they can find information on the new features and the release notes for vCloud Director 1.5. To view the release notes click here. Quick abstract from the page What’s in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics: What’s New System Requirements and Installation Known Issues What’s New Fast Provisioning: Utilizing linked clones dramatically speeds up provisioning time and reduces storage costs. vApp Custom Properties: Allows developers and other users to easily pass user data into guest OSes using OVF descriptors. Blocking Tasks and Notifications: Programmatically connect vCloud Director to enterprise systems (e.g. CMDB) enabling end-to-end system automation. Expanded vCloud API: Additional commands added to the vCloud API namespace to include all GUI-accessible actions and enable broader integration and scripting using the API. Microsoft SQL Server Support: For new deployments of vCloud Director, Microsoft SQL is supported for the vCloud database […]
HowTo: Change Hostname of vShield Manager appliance
Quick how to on how to change the hostname of vShield manager appliance from the default. Some customers have asked how to do this to ensure that the appliance is in compliance with there naming convention. Login to the appliance en configure termial hostname [newhostname] copy running-config startup-config Step 5 copies the running config to the startup config so it persists after a re-boot.
RISC OS London Show
Not really virtualization related, but still (for me at least) an interesting bit of news. The RISC OS London Show will be held on Saturday 29th October at St Giles Hotel Feltham, London. For further information click here.
How-To: Re-install VMware vCloud Director
A few of my colleagues have been working on this recently, and the process has been released on some of the communities forums. I thought I would share this process to help people re-build there dev environments and labs. This process documents how to wipe and re-install vCD, with the same version number. 1. Export vApp Templates and any other vApps that are required in the re-built environment from the existing environment. 2. Remove the VMware vCloud Director Configuration Components such as Virtual Datacenters, Organizations, vApps, VMs, Networks Pools and so on– manually. 3. Cleanup the External Networks. 4. Verify that all organization / vApp network portgroups are removed from the vSwitches/dvSwitches. You will still need the portgroups provisioned for the External Networks. 5. Cleanup all the Resource group datastores. 6. Unprepare the ESX/ESXi Hosts from the VMware vCloud Director web console. 7. Verify on the ESX/ESXi Hosts that the […]