Veeam V7 vCloud Director Preview
Veeam has been advertising some of their Veeam Backup and Replication V7 features for a while now, but I finally got access to the beta and was allowed to bring…
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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…
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…
The Cloud and ITaaS: Why you and your dad still have a job to do!
This morning as I prepare to meet with a coworker to discuss cloud pricing and what our company intends to offer I was thinking about why a company would want…
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,…
What is “the Cloud”?
If you’re a regular reader you have probably seen a lot of vCloud related posts on my site as I explore VMware’s vCloud Director Product, but if you are a…
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…
Building a vCloud Lab Part 3: vSphere 5 and vShield
This is part 3 of the multipart series on how I am building a public vCloud lab, this post will explain vSphere 5.0 setup on each of the host machines…