By: vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 2 (Deep Dive) - Chris Colotti's Blog
[...] these vSphere specific considerations are exactly what I have spoken about in my VMWorld sessions.Jump to Part Three how to vcd clone deep dive vCloud Clone deep dive vcloud director vcloud...
View ArticleBy: Erik Bussink
Thanks a lot for the insight on the Export/Import process of the Transfer NFS share. Going to make some changes in the design.Regards, Erik
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By: Chris Colotti
Changes yet again! You left VMworld with changes already my friend. Hopefully this one keeps you moving forward with a great design. Let me know if you see anything different or new than what I saw in...
View ArticleBy: Kendrick Coleman
fantastic series dude. definitely some great thoughts for design considerations. I also hope developers are reading this so they can take into account ways to improve the vCloud product. I would love...
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By: Chris Colotti
I know it has already changed the way a few people are looking at the designs to account for traffic flows. I have already asked about the appliance and if it will support more than two vNICs. No idea...
View ArticleBy: cwjking
This is really interesting.. We currently run VCD with only 1 interface. The real problems I see is that most of the virtual appliances use E1000. We use CiscoUCS 10GB FCoE and have been updating...
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Interesting article, thanks. This raises the question how long a shadow copy lives when you copy it from Bronze to Bronze. If you deploy a catalog vapp from ovdc1 to ovdc2 which has different storage...
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Shadow copies live as long as there is a Fast Provisioned clone leveraging it. So until all the virtual Machines using that shadow are gone the shadow will remain. William Lam has done some research on...
View ArticleBy: Pablo Scheri
Hi! in these scheme, where you use 1 nic for HTTP, and 1 nic for Management, how would you access the Web Console for administrative purpose from the management network?? the 443 and 80 ports are only...
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in this case management would be for linux management not vcloud director as that is always done via https.
View ArticleBy: Pablo Scheri
The problem is that for been able to set the public address for HTTP, Proxy and API, I have to logon first, and I cant do that because the Payload interfaces are in a DMZ where I have no other Server...
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In that case just don’t use a management nic it is not a requirement just use one for http and one for console and that’s it. You must manage vcd via the http interface he purpose of a “management”...
View ArticleBy: mohit kshirsagar
HiIf a vcloud multi cell has an 1 interface in the nfs vlan and all my esxi servers in the provider vdc / cluster also have an interface in the nfs vlan , does the vcloud director copy/export/import...
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The NFS VLAN will be used by both ESXi and vCD to ONLY access the storage and not pass the traffic to and from each other during a copy operation as a direct path for the copy. As stated above the copy...
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The NFS VLAN will most likely be used by both ESXi and vCD to ONLY access the storage and not pass the traffic to and from each other. That will occur between ESXi and the ESXi hosts from the vCD HTTP...
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The NFS VLAN will be used by both ESXi and vCD to ONLY access the storage and not pass the traffic to and from each other during a copy operation as a direct path for the copy. As stated above the copy...
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Could Have, Should Have, Would Have….
Some days you wake up and wonder ‘What If..?” For whatever reason today was that day. I woke up thinking about what would be different if I did this, or made that decision instead. I pledged a long...
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How To Configure NSX IPSEC VPN With AWS, Azure, and GCP
The last few weeks I have been putting together a new lab for my team at Cohesity to use for live demos. Part of the overall design was to allow for VPN connections to the various clouds that...
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My ActualTech Media Cohesity VMworld 2018 Interview
Once again I was in attendance at VMworld 2018, this year working for Cohesity. I had the chance to get together with long time friend David Davis from ActualTech Media. I may have been losing my...
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How To Deploy the Cohesity Azure Cloud Edition
Not only am I still new to Cohesity, but I’ve honestly never even touched Microsoft Azure until this week. As Jon Hildebrand and I have been preparing a live demo environment for Microsoft Ignite, we...
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