First I wanted to say that I have had a lot of fun digging back into Software Defined Datacenter, (SDDC). If you have not been able to tell I dove back in feet first with my recent vCloud Director Hybrid Cloud Case Study which I will also be presenting on the vBrown Bag this week. Something I discussed in the process I glazed ... Read More »
In the process of building my experimental “MonsterCloud” vCloud Director Hybrid setup I obviously needed to do some site to site VPN between the following locations: VMware Eval Cloud Stratogen Cloud My House The trick here is that this is now turning into a true Hybrid cloud as two sites are running vCloud Director, and my house is not. It’s ... Read More »
My vShield App Firewall Use Case The scenario for why I wanted to try and use the vShield App Firewall was pretty basic and is probably similar for most folks. Everything in the “Lab” space is virtual except for some of the storage devices and all of the personal devices. However I have the networking split between two subnets 192.168.100.x ... Read More »
Okay I admit sometimes I spend too many late nights coming up with some goofy ideas. However this one actually panned out as a real work vCloud Director Networking example you can use to see how flexible vCloud Director Networking could be. The idea started from me wanting to rebuild by WordPress installation from a single server stack to a ... Read More »
The other day I was sent a link to a 9-slide deck titled “Life before and after vCloud Director”, put together by someone I do not know that takes time to point out some specific challenges with vCloud Director, mostly with networking and vShield Edge. From what I have learned this deck was previously circulated and has recently re-surfaced. It tries to explain ... Read More »
I know I am about 8 hours late to the party on this one, but there is a few things I wanted to point out. Although this is a minor release, with some feature enhancements, to me there is a lot to this in the way of fixes. The feature enhancement list is not that long but some are key ... Read More »
Some interesting conversation around this topic came up during our Disaster Recovery for vCloud testing, and they also rang true when I visited the vCloud Director Bootcamp at Partner Exchange a few weeks ago. The challenge has to do with how to deal with vApps that are getting IP Addresses from a Static IP Pool within vCloud Director. In turn, ... Read More »
Last week at Partner Exchange Duncan Epping and I presented a little deeper insight into the SRM solution we published earlier in the week. One great question that came up was about the processes to change the IP addresses on the various vCloud infrastructure after the failover happens. We mentioned how Site Recovery Manager can change the IP of some ... Read More »
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