As of vCloud Director 5.5 organisational users are still unable to create SSL VPN client connections. Instead this has to be done via vShield Manager by an Administrator. In this example the organisational network in the vDC is 192.168.5.0/24. I will give a static pool of 192.168.4.1 – 25 to the remote VPN users. The first Read More…
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Connect to vCloud Director Instance using SSL VPN
This post follows on from how to create SSL VPN users for a vCloud Director deployment: http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/create-ssl-vpn…ector-instance/ To connect to your vShield Edge using an SSL VPN client you'll need to firstly login to the portal via https://{external-ip-of-edge-gateway}:8443 When logged in select the Full Access tab then click Default (which was created earlier) This brings up a download page. Read More…
Upgrading vCloud Director ESXi Hosts
In my environment to fully upgrade to vcloud suite 5.5 I would have to use the following order: A) vCloud Director B) vCNS (vShield Manager) C) vCenter D) ESXi hosts E) vShield Edge In this post I will be discussing the process of upgrading the ESXi hosts from 5.1 to 5.5 1) In vCloud Read More…
Upgrading vCloud Director
In this scenario I have a single VCD cell running 5.1.1.868405. This will be upgraded to 5.5.2.1 In my environment to fully upgrade all components to vSphere 5.5 I have to use the following order: A) vCloud Director B) vCNS (vShield Manager) C) vCenter D) ESXi hosts E) vShield Edge Note: Please view the 'Update sequence Read More…
Create a Site-to-Site VPN between vShield Edge and Draytek
Components: vCloud Director 5.1.1/ vShield Edge 5.1.1 Draytek 2820n (FW 3.3.7.5) Create VPN from vCloud to Draytek Firstly we need to create the VPN in vCloud Director. Login to your virtual data centre then go to Administration -> Edge Gateways -> (right click vshield edge) -> Edge Gateway Services -> VPN. Tick the Enable VPN then click Add. We will also need to ensure that Read More…
VM doesn’t migrate with Redeploy All VMs Command in vCloud Director
Scenario: I needed to reboot a host but a single VM was not migrated when I called the Redeploy VMs command in vCloud Director. It was if VCD didn’t recognise the VM as vSphere didn’t even attempt to move it off the host. First of all, here are the instruction to place an ESXi host managed by vCloud Read More…
Unable to Provision New VMs in vCloud Director. 5.1.x
Scenario: I had just created a new Provider Virtual Data Centre (PVDC) from a new ESXi cluster. When I tried to add a VAPP from the catalog I was presented with an error. Error Message: The problem was actually due to the VM Storage profile not being “enabled” on the new cluster. Read More…
Remove vCloud Director and Components
To completely uninstall vCloud Director 1.5 and its components then use the following steps as a guidline: 1) Log into your VCD administrators portal and remove everything possible. That includes VMs, VAPPs, VSEs, networks, organizations etc 2) Disable then Unprepare Hosts (this requires maintenance mode) Just for reference. If you ever want to manually put your hosts Read More…
No Datastores Accessible – VDC 5.1
Scenario: I provisioned a new datastore (VCLOUD2) then added it to the Datastore Cluster vCloudDatastoreCluster). Shortly afterwards Igot the error "No datastores accesible to VDC" and my original datasore (vCloud1) had disappeared. OS: Esxi 5.1 / vCloud Director 5.1 My original setup I then added VCLOUD2 to the DS Cluster. (drag datastore into the Read More…
Splitting IP addresses when using DIRECT external network connection in vCloud Director 5.1 ?
I wanted to split a /24 subnet into 4 IP chunks per orgVDC. Using the new sub-allocation feature in vShield Edge you can configure this so one OrgVDC can only use a specific allocated range. However, what if you have an orgVDC that has a direct internet connection (eg connecting to the Internet directly without using Read More…
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