Over the last couple of weeks I received multiple questions around Application Monitoring. Application Monitoring is part of the HA stack. Application Monitoring is a feature of VM Monitoring and similar to VM Monitoring the VMware Tools heartbeat mechanism is used to detect outages. Currently the API is only available to a select group of partners who are delivering a [...]

In Part 1 of this series we described the different layers of networking. We already briefly spoke about Network Pools and that both a vApp Networks and Org Networks consume a segment out of a pool. In order to fully understand vCD (VMware vCloud Director) networking we will need to explain the foundation for all Cloud Internal traffic first which [...]

After my introduction on vCD last week, I thought it was time to publish an article on Networking. Networking is most likely the most complex concept of vCD(VMware vCloud Director) and can at times be very confusing. I have created three articles which will explain the concepts of networking within vCD and of course will explain on a technical level [...]

I play around in my home lab with VMware vCloud Director(vCD) a lot. I usually end up rebuilding it once in a while. Sometimes however you do it in the incorrect order and you end up with vCD Agents installed on your ESXi host without having vCD to unprepare the host. In that situation you can either rebuild the ESXi [...]

Those who follow me on twitter know that I was one of the Lab Captains at VMworld. I was not allowed to talk about the topic of my lab as the product was to be announced at VMworld(vCloud Director). I must say that I have never worked so hard in my life. Days of 14 hrs were considered “normal”, all [...]