Retaining Resource Pools using Webclient

So a few days ago I posted up an article about what happens if you disable DRS in a vCD environment..... Well I stumbled across this article in VMware's knowledgebase: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2032893 "Great"...... I thought..... "I can use the snapshot functionality within Webclient to capture the resource pools!"......the only problem is, upon deeper digging I stumbled … Continue reading Retaining Resource Pools using Webclient

DO NOT disable DRS within a vCloud environment!!

I remember watching this video when going through my vCloud Director training, and stumbled across it again a few days ago... thought I'd share it with you all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0_tLVR6uUc Basically by disabling DRS on your vCloud resource cluster you remove all resource pools in vCenter (unfortunate side effect of DRS). Now vCloud Director relies heavily on … Continue reading DO NOT disable DRS within a vCloud environment!!

Protecting your Cloud (vCloud & SRM)

So one of the BIG problems at the moment is that SRM does not fully support protecting your vCloud environment. http://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-1-1.html#caveats It supports protecting your management cluster (so the vCenter servers, vCD cells, vCNS manager, vCM, DBs, etc), but it doesn't yet protect your resource cluster..... so all those VMs you've deployed in your organisations … Continue reading Protecting your Cloud (vCloud & SRM)

Creating a Load Balancer in vCloud Director 5.1

So as promised, today I'm going to blog about how to manually create a load balancer service on an edge gateway within vCloud Director. I'm assuming here that you know all about Edge Gateways and how to create them, so will by-pass that info - if you don't know then VMware has a simple to … Continue reading Creating a Load Balancer in vCloud Director 5.1