NSX-T 3.0 NSX Federation

NSX-T 3.0 has been released on the 7th of April 2020, the new version introduced many new features in the new release, one of these features is NSX-T federation.

vCloud Director 10 NSX-T backed OVDC – Add externel based network with dedicated physical NIC

Mit der Veröffentlichung vom vCloud Director 10 ist auch die NSX-T-Integration verfügbar. Unser Kollege Steven Schramm zeigt euch in diesem Artikel welche Einschränkungen es für  NSX-T-unterstützte OVDCs im Vergleich zu NSX-V-unterstützenden OVDCs gibt und wie ihr damit umgehen könnt.

Using Request Context in vCD Service Library Workflows

The Service Library was introduced in vCloud Director 9.1 and allows you to publish vRealize Orchestrator Workflows to your Tenants and/or Service Providers. Using Request Context In vCD Service Library Workflows There must be a thousand use cases for this scenario and many of them would require one thing: scope limitation. To keep it simple, let’s say you want to provide a Workflow which collects VM data, generates a fancy report and sends it via email to the requestor. The user should be able to select the vApp for which the report will be created.

vCloud Director 10 – SAML Authentication with Keycloak as Identity Provider

This article describes how to configure vCloud Director 10 to consume authentication information from a SAML identity provider using Keycloak. If you will provide your customers access to more than one system, it might be helpful to have a single point of authentication. The advantages to have a central system for all authentication requests are reduced configuration overhead, troubleshooting complexity and the possibility to implement Single Sign-On.

BOSH-Package-Manager

Why do we want a Package Manager for Bosh? Everybody who has worked with a Unix based operating system or a modern build tool has come in touch with a package manager. According to Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian project, package management is the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry. It eases up the ability to build and develop software modular. BOSH already uses packages as containers for the software a release engineer wants to deploy. However, currently, these packages are being shared with copy and paste between releases. This means that if a new Java version needs to be installed in all releases a BOSH instance has, it needs to be manually updated by the operator every single one of them. This is a very repetitive task that can get even worse, if the package depends on others, as they need to be copied as well. These kinds of issues can be addressed by implementing a package management system for BOSH packages and bring release engineering a little closer to commands like ‘apt-get update’ all Linux users learned to love.

NSX-T Edge Appliance Deployment Regulations

This article describes the regulations, if deploying NSX-T Edges as appliance and show the supported deployment scenarios. Following a short overview about the three deployment scenarios. NSX-T Edge appliance on NSX-T prepared host with just N-VDS NSX-T Edge appliance on NSX-T prepared host with VDS and N-VDS NSX-T Edge appliance on different vSphere cluster not prepared for NSX-T

In the peaceful arms of Eirini

To all the people who were not able to attend this years Cloud Foundry Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, you missed quite something. This years summit had several revelations to offer. First of all the Cloud Foundry Community is about people bringing these technologies to us. By that the community always focused on diversity and friendship.

Applied approach for creating flavors

How to build a suitable and more usable cloud infrastructure. A list for OpenStack cloud administrators to create and maintain their instances effectively…

Install and configure Microsoft SQL server on RHEL/CentOS for vCloud Director

The VMware vCloud Director needs a MSSQL or an Oracle Database server to run. This article will describe how to install a MSSQL Server Express on RHEL/CentOS for testing and developing purposes.