** NOTE: 2010! No longer valid for 2011 ** The VMworld Europe team gave me the opportunity to give away 1 free ticket for VMworld Europe 2010. (Please note, VMworld 2010 Europe Conference Ticket only!) I have been thinking about what kind of contest to set up and I even considered giving away the ticket to a random person. However, [...]

For those looking into deploying vCloud Director (vCD), VMware just published a white paper titled “VMware vCloud Director Security Hardening Guide”. I reviewed the document a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a really good read! Download: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Security.pdf Description The VMware® vCloud™ Director Security Hardening Guide helps users who are embarking into the journey of cloud computing understand [...]

Part 1 explained the basic concepts of networking within vCD(VMware vCloud Director) and Part 2 focussed on Network Pools. In the final and 3rd part we will focus on a use case and what happens on the vSphere layer with these different types of vCD networks. I will cover just a single use case for now, but this one basically covers [...]

This tool doesn’t need an introduction anymore. One of the most valuable free tools I know… RVTools. Rob found some spare time again and managed to update RVTools. It includes some bug fixes and new fields. Just download it and try it out, I am certain it will dig up something that you did not know about! Keep it up [...]

Yes, it is that time of the year again… vSphere-land.com’s voting for the Top 25 Blogs worldwide has started again. I had the honor of placing 1st three consecutive times and of course this time I want to be first again, although this year more than ever there seems to be a lot of competition out there! My personal Top-10 [...]

I was just building a vCD Lab and thought I would document the process. I know Hany has done something similar recently but mine is slightly different. I wanted to have a slim config from a memory perspective and virtual machine count perspective. Before I start, let’s give a warning… ***this is totally unsupported*** Pre-requisites: CentOS 5 – 64 Bit [...]

Internally I have seen this one a couple of times so I knew what the issue was, but outside of VMware not many people have played with VMware vCloud Director (vCD) yet. Here’s the full error that is shown when you create a NAT Router Org network of vApp network: Error creating Shield network appliance. – vClould-Shield edge error: Creating/configuring [...]