vCloud Director
Automating storage with NetApp Workflow Automation
Do you wish you could automate your NetApp Storage infrastructure? Do you wish your storage admins could give an easy to use custom interface to other areas of the business allowing them to provision or use storage however they need whilst still applying best practice and corporate policies to the configuration? -Alan
vCDAudit for vCloud Director
Sometimes its hard to retrieve a report or data that you want to see in one place from a pre-built GUI, I often see this as a use case with PowerShell, being able to grab the data that you want to see and export it or report on it in a unified and simple way. [...]
Removing the vCD Agent from hosts
When re-installing my vCD home lab I had an issue when I went to re-add some hosts which had already been used in a vCD environment, this was because the hosts had already been “prepared” by vCD and therefore had the “vcloud-agent” vib installed. Of course you would normally unprepare these from the vCD web [...]
vCloud Director 1.0 PowerShell Advanced Functions
Its no secret that VMware are working on vCloud Director (vCD) cmdlets, they recently surveyed the PowerShell and VMware community to make sure they had all the information needed to make this as much of a success as the vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets. But did you know you can already use PowerShell with vCD ? It [...]
PowerCLI for vCloud Director–Have your say !
VMware have recently announced a survey on the PowerCLI site, this has been setup to poll people for what they think would be the best way to introduce cmdlets for vCloud Director, personally I think it’s a great move and proves that VMware really does listen to their customers opinions. Their questions not only ask [...]
Auto Deploy and vCloud Director
When re-installing my home lab I realized that when using Auto Deploy with vCloud Director (vCD) you would need to have an extra step in the planning process, this makes sense if you think about the way that Auto Deploy and vCD works. vCloud Director installs an agent on the ESXi host which is used [...]
