VMware just released new version of vCloud Director – and it is a major release with version number 9.0.
Its documentation has now been moved to VMware Docs website: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/index.html
I plan in the following days to blog about the major new features, so for now I will just provide list of all of the features, categorized by their exposure to tenants or provider.
New features in tenant context:
- HTML 5 user interface which provides simplified VM deployment workflows (no vApp needed), is customizable and also provides VM Metrics (those coming from Cassandra DB)
- Networking enhancements: NSX Distributed routing with up to 1000 east-west routing optimized Org VDC networks per Org VDC Edge Gateway, security groups and tags for distributed firewall policies, VLAN tagging for VXLAN based Org VDC networks for Virtual Guest Tagging
- vMotion of VM between vApps in the same Org VDC
New features in tenant context with provider support:
- Multisite – multiple vCloud Director instances can be federated with association of individual organizations
- VLAN trunk support for vCloud Director external networks
New features in provider context:
- Manual VXLAN network pool creation
- Designating specific Provider VDC resource pool/cluster for dedicated Edge GW placement
- PostgreSQL DB support for vCloud Director database including migration from MS SQL/Oracle and high availability
- Securing vCloud Director database communication with encryption (only PostgreSQL)
- Per tenant storage migration workflows for storage array lifecycle
- VM metric database simplification (no KairosDB needed anymore, just pure Cassandra)
- vVOL support
- Enhanced support for vCenter Server HW/Guest operating systems
- SAML2 federation for System Administrators
- vSphere 5.5 is no longer supported
Note that announced migration tool called vCloud Director Extender has not yet been released.
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Hi Tom,
I have just installed vCD 9 and still utilize the flash version for tenant UI, is there any things to do to get the new HTML5 web client for tenant ?
https://vcd-fqdn/tenant/orgnameWhen i use that URL, all i get is an empty page, or a “server is offline” error. The webconsole (flash UI) works just fine. What am i missing?
Check the public addresses configuration in VCD. In the tenant portal section check the Copy API URL settings checkbox.
Yes, i do have it checked now but i still get the blank page and subsequently the “offline” error. I must be still missing something basic…thoughts? I restarted the services as well just in case.
The your API config is probably incorrect on that page. Anyway, open a ticket to solve this.
hi avasek,, I have the same issue, have you solved it ?? can you share me how ??