Re: Console proxy health check with F5
Thanks, that worked like a charm.One more recommendation I got from F5 support was to also add "Connection: Close" in the Send String so the end result looks like this: GET /sdk/vimServiceVersions.xml...
View ArticleHow to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
The vCD web interface exposes different functionalities on the same base url: https://vcd.example.com/cloud - web access to the system adminhttps://vcd.example.com/cloud/org/<orgid> - web access...
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
I have not seen any official way to do this; however a load balancer that does http url inspection should be able to handle this. If the URL does not contain */api/* fail it. Would be nice to see a...
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
Well, that's OK for the API, but what about the web GUI ? The Web GUI is the most problematic since it is overlapping with the sysadmin interface.
View ArticleRe: How dose a external organisation administrator connect to their Org...
Once a vCloud instance is setup, you will have the ability to add "Organizations" - these objects have users accounts, virtual datacenters (where you setup what storage/compute/network they have access...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare hosts with busy load
To start - you can do one host at a time by putting it in maintenance mode first - then preparing it - then remove it from maint mode. Doing this should have no impact as the running systems in the...
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
You could use the load balancer filter I would thin for all... Possible setup:force traffic filter to not allow traffic where URLNOT */cloud/org/* This would allow API access, and system admin access...
View ArticleAdd new storage to VCD
Greeting, Newbie in VCD I did created new ORG and it works, just the space not enough, I did add new storage in the vcenter. I can use the new storage in the vcenter, but for some reason in vcd just...
View ArticleRe: How dose a external organisation administrator connect to their Org...
Thank you. When the organisation is created the IPs are assigned from the External Pool of public route-able IPs. Are the same IPs used for the new (customer) Admins to connect and configure their...
View ArticleRe: Console proxy health check with F5
Glad to hear that it works for you.I have also updated my post at http://www.edge-cloud.net/2013/05/configuring-f5-big-ip-with-vcd/ with the revised information. Again, many thanks for pointing out...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare hosts with busy load
thanks for the reply. I can't seem to find an option for me to prepare each host one by one, apart from adding them all in one go option in the Provider VDC Setup Wizard. Can anyone show me where I can...
View Articlechanging the default port of vcloud director
how do I change the default listening port(443) of vcloud director ?I could not find any documentation and and when I talked to some vmware admins, they said its not possible. is that true?
View ArticleRe: changing the default port of vcloud director
As far as I know, you cannot change the port to anything different than the default 443. This applies to HTTPS and Console Proxy.
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare hosts with busy load
You don't add a host, you add a cluster of hosts. We basically detect all hosts in a cluster, and all should be prepared to allow load balancing across all hosts. When you add a Provider and need to...
View ArticleRe: Add new storage to VCD
what version of vCloud Director are you using, and did you add the storage to the appropriate storage profile? also, check out : VMware vCloud Director 5.1 - Storage Profiles - YouTube
View ArticleRe: vcloud and ssl vpn
While it is true that SSL-VPN is not exposed directly within vCloud director you can still configure it manually through the vShield appliance (Network Virtualization tab in vCenter). Everything works...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 Lab
You can create a second cluster with one host. Even though there is just one host in it you will still want to enable DRS if you plan to use it with vCloud Director.
View ArticleRe: HP CloudSystem
I think your question is a bit vague. There are many organizations that use all HP branded solutions and deploy things on them. This is no different than CloudSystem. Really the only difference is that...
View ArticleVMWare vCloud Director and a Test enviorment
I'm looking at building a lab environment and a co worker says I need to use vCloud director as apposed to using lab manager. I've got a couple questions and concerns before I head down that road....
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
If you go the load balancer route you'd need to put the SSL certs on the load balancer so it could decode the payload (HTTP request) to be able to see the URL and do the filtering
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