The recently released new version of VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 brings quite a lot of new features. In this article I want to focus on those related to networking. External Networks on Org VDC Gateway (NSX-T Tier-1 GW) External networks that are NSX-T Segment backed (VLAN or overlay) can now be connected directly to Org … Continue reading New Networking Features in VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 (VCD) has just been released and with it comes also the change of the appliance internal PostgreSQL database from version 10 to 14 (as well as replication manager upgrade). This means that the standard upgrade process has changed and is now a bit more complicated and could be significantly longer than … Continue reading VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 Appliance Upgrade Notes
Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 VM and vApp operations that happen across Provider VDCs backed by different vCenter Server instances require that both vCenter Server trust each other certificates. Which operations are affected? Any VM move, clone or vApp move, clone and template deployments that happen via UI or API where source and destinations … Continue reading Enhanced Security for Cross vCenter Operations in VMware Cloud Director
Topic of multitenant logging in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) especially with NSX-T came up recently in multiple conversations, so I will summarize the capabilities and options as they are today. Audit and Event Logs Information about VCD events such as user logins, vApp operation, VM power-on etc are available in the Audit and Event log. … Continue reading Multitenant Logging with VMware Cloud Director
When VMware Cloud Director is deployed in public environment setup it is a good practice to restrict the system admin access only for specific networks so no brute force attack can be triggered against the publicly available UI/API end points. There is actually a relatively easy way to achieve this via any web application firewall … Continue reading Control System Admin Access to VMware Cloud Director
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