A very quick post on how to upgrade your Cloud Director cluster to 10.2. This post contains some shortcuts that removes some repetitive steps. Download the latest Cloud Director 10.2 from my.vmware.com. You can read more about the latest updates in the release notes. Primarily, VCD 10.2 brings some very new functionality, including: NSX-T AdvancedContinue reading “Upgrade Cloud Director to 10.2”
Category Archives: VMware Cloud Director
Using Let’s Encrypt certificates with Cloud Director
Let’s Encrypt (LE) is a certificate authority that issues free SSL certificates for use in your web applications. This post details how to get LE setup to support Cloud Director specifically with a wildcard certificate.
Automate NSX-T Load Balancer setup for Cloud Director and the Tenant App
This post describes how to use the NSX-T Policy API to automate the creation of load balancer configurations for Cloud Director and the vRealize Operations Tenant App.
Protecting Cloud Director with NSX-T Load Balancer L7 HTTP Policies
Running Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) over the Internet has its benefits however opens up the portal to security risks. To prevent this, we can use the native load balancing capabilities of NSX-T to serve only HTTP access to the URIs that are required and preventing access to unnecessary URIs from the rest of the Internet.
Workflow for end-to-end tenant provisioning with VMware Cloud Director
VMware vRealize Orchestrator workflows for VMware Cloud Director to automate the provisioning of cloud services.
VMworld 2019 Rewatch: Building a Modern Cloud Hosting Platform on VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware vCloud Director (HBI1321BE)
Rewatch my session with Onni Rautanen at VMworld EMEA 2019 where we cover the clouds that we are building together with Tieto.
Load Balancing and Protecting Cloud Director with Avi Networks
This article covers protecting and load balancing the Cloud Director application with Avi Networks. It covers SSL termination. health monitoring and layer 7 HTTP filtering. It can also be used as a reference for other load balancer products such as F5 LTM or NGINX.
