vCloud

How To Handle Patch Management in vCloud Director

I have gotten this question a few times and I have seen it on a number of emails.  I wanted to take a moment to address this because there seems to be some confusion on just how to manage your deployed vApps, but also the ones in the vCloud Catalogs.  For the …

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[INFO] Partner Exchange Meet the Presenters

Well it looks like the videos went live this week for the Partner Exchange meet the presenters.  Here is a mine, Cormac’s and George’s.  Don’t laugh too much, I had to record mine in my house and email it in.  Thanks to Julie for her camera work and we only …

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[INFO] Operations Used by the vCloud Transfer Space

Today the question came up on one of Jason Boche’s posts about expanding the vCloud Transfer space operations and when that transfer space is used.  I dug through some old emails and located a transcript from a conversation I had asking the same question.  I got the reply below from …

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How To Troubleshoot vCloud VMRC Connections

I have seen a couple of times now posts in various places about connection issues with the vCloud Director remote console.  I wanted to write up a few short things that seem to be the most common things that folks have run into when configuring the remote console section of …

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How To Get Started with CentOS Minimal

I wanted to share with everyone a little post about my exposure to CentOS 6.2 Minimal.  If you are not aware with the latest release of CentOS 6.2 there is now a “Minimal” ISO option.  Now let me tell you first off when they say minimal….it’s got next to nothing. …

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[INFO] The Importance of MoREF to vCloud Director

This is meant to be a very short post about the importance of vCenter Managed Object References with vCloud Director.  In the past folks have heard David Hill and I talk about the vCloud Eco-System and how vCenter is pretty much in the middle of the universe for many things. …

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