• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

  • Home
  • ESXTOP
  • Stickers/Shirts
  • Privacy Policy
  • About
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Doing a vCloud Director Proof of Concept?

Duncan Epping · Nov 18, 2011 ·

I think this will make you happy. VMware just released the vCloud Director virtual appliance. That means no more installing Red Hat, Oracle and vCloud Director. Just download the appliance and deploy it. On top of there is a great vCloud Cloud Director Evaluators Guide which will help you to evaluate the product.

  • vCloud Director virtual appliance download (You will need to register for the eval)
  • VMware vCloud Director Evaluator’s Guide

If you haven’t done anything with vCloud Director before the following articles might also be worth reading, note that these are 1.0 based articles but most of the content is still valid today.

  • vCloud Director Intro
  • vCloud Director Demo
  • vCloud Director networking part 1, 2, 3a and 3b
  • vCloud Director Allocation Models

Related

Server cloud, vcloud, vcloud director

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. andreas says

    18 November, 2011 at 21:09

    Yeah! Very nice! This is going into my lab this weekend, fun!

  2. Christian van Barneveld says

    19 November, 2011 at 00:17

    I love this! One year ago I was complaining why VMware has chosen Oracle and RedHat (instead of MSSQL and a appliance based on Suse). One year later there is a Oracle alternative what will create the addition of vCD!

    And now the appliance is there! Offcourse not for production, but great for test environments and PoC’s.
    vCD 1.5 is running great in our production environment since september and it;s a great addition for our customers!

    Next (hopefully) support for PostgreSQL database so we can drain our Microsoft environment 😉

  3. Tim Curless says

    19 November, 2011 at 00:53

    This is on the scale of a small or POC environment only, correct? In other words you would still do a full deployment in enterprise production?

    • Duncan Epping says

      19 November, 2011 at 09:40

      Correct, you should do a “full install” for a production environment.

  4. Stefan Nguyen says

    19 November, 2011 at 06:01

    Duncan,

    The appliance has 60 days trial with key generated, but what if for those that already have NFR license, can we enter our NFR key when deploying this appliance, will it valid for long term testing without 60 days? Or it has to use the trial keys provided, i would assume it has no issues if we have valid keys right? Thanks enjoy weekend!

  5. Stefan Nguyen says

    19 November, 2011 at 07:09

    Where do I find out the username/password for the vCD 1.5 Appliance portal? https://vcd01.domain.com/5480 screen by chance?

  6. Justin Hensley says

    20 November, 2011 at 21:52

    This is a lifesaver. Kudos to VMware for making life easier.

  7. Dany says

    21 November, 2011 at 15:09

    Oh man this is great,

    I was struggling with getting Oracle to listen for the vCD database.

    It decreases the total number of VMs and simplifies the process.

    WIN/WIN!

  8. Clement DeLarge says

    19 July, 2012 at 02:19

    I did a quick write up on extending the life of the appliance. Where to change keys and update certificates. I heard that the Oracle license would expire but haven’t encountered that yet. Has anyone else?

    http://d3planet.com/rtfb/2011/11/28/extending-the-life-of-your-vmware-vcloud-director-appliance-and-changing-certificates/

  9. Patrick Pender says

    12 August, 2012 at 04:43

    I cannot find the appliance on their site, just the .bin. Doesn’t anyone know where it went?

  10. Clement DeLarge says

    12 August, 2012 at 04:57

    @Patrick: If I’m remembering correctly, if you sign up for the trial, it’ll let you download the appliance straight through links from there. I can’t remember if there’s another way to get to it or not.

Primary Sidebar

About the author

Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

Upcoming Events

May 24th – VMUG Poland
June 1st – VMUG Belgium

Recommended Reads

Sponsors

Want to support Yellow-Bricks? Buy an advert!

Advertisements

Copyright Yellow-Bricks.com © 2023 · Log in