Automating vCloud and AD User Provisioning with Powershell
As part of my Hands-on Lab project, I wanted to automate the creation of user accounts, both for vCloud Director as well as VMware View/Active Directory. I kicked around the…
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HTTP Load Balancing with vCloud and vShield Edge
One of the features that I keep seeing in product documentation about vCloud and vShield is the ability for vShield Edge to do HTTP load balancing. However every time I…
Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider Part 2 (a customer How-To)
In the first part of this article I showed you how to get a vApp provisioned with two virtual machines. However we did not load the operating systems in them…
Getting Started with a vCloud Service Provider (a customer How-To)
The goal of this post is to convey just how easy it is to work with virtual machines in a public cloud that is using VMware vCloud Director software. This…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 5: vCD Installation
Now that we have our hardware all in place, vSphere 5 Installed, our database configured and running, and vShield deployed we are ready to build our vCloud Director virtual machine,…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 4: vCD Database Prep
One part that I forgot to mention that is in the vCloud Installation Guide is preparing your database server for use with vCloud Director. This isn’t a difficult process if…