vCloud Automation Center – vCAC 6.0 – Creating an Amazon AWS Endpoint
Creating an Amazon AWS Endpoint is really just assigning the credentials you would like to use to communicate with Amazon. vCAC already knows how to communicate with Amazon, it just doesn’t know what...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere Step-By-Step Installation
I know your excited to get right down to the meat of the installtion, but there is some housekeeping that we need to get out of the way first. There are a number of pre-requisites that we need to...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere – Setting up Transport Zones
If you are familiar with “Network Scopes” from vCNS then “Transport Zones” should be familiar to you. If not here is some useful information to know regarding these Zones. Transport Zones dictate...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere – Deploying Logical Switches
NSX Logical Switches can be looked at as the equivalent of a virtual VLAN. They identify the networks that you will be connecting your virtual machines to that ride over your VXLAN Transport Zones....
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere – Deploying Logical Distributed Routers
In this walk-through we will be deploying a logical router and configuring routing between (2) logical networks that we created in an earlier post. Logical routers consist of two components. A virtual...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere – Deploying an Edge Gateway
So far we have deployed (2) Logical Switches and (1) Distributed Logical Router and deployed a VM on to each logical switch. Our VM’s can communicate with each other across the Distributed Logical...
View ArticleVMware vRealize Cloud Client 3.0 is GA
What is the cloud client you ask? The CloudClient is a verb based command-line utility aimed at simplifying interactions with multiple product api’s. The CloudClient also provides common security,...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere – Connecting logical and Edge Routers
This article builds on my previous article Deploying an Edger Gateway. In this article we are going to connect the Edge router we deployed in my previous post to the Logical Router we deployed in the...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 for vSphere – Configuring OSPF route distribution
In my previous NSX articles we covered installing and configuring NSX, We discussed deploying/configuring Transport Zones, Logical Switches, Logical Routers, Edge Gateways, and connecting the Logical...
View ArticleThe MoaC Lab
I have been received a number of questions about the MoaC Lab so I decided to put together an article to cover what the MoaC is. The MoaC or Mother of all Clouds lab is a project Tom Bonanno and...
View ArticlevRealize Automation (vCAC) – The cost of being agile
Building a cloud is easy right? There are products out there that can stand up a cloud for you in a week and automate your entire IT infrastructure practically overnight, isn’t there? This is what...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Adding a vCO Endpoint
vCO Endpoints are used by vCAC when vCAC needs to execute vCO workflows. These can be out of the box workflows such as the NSX workflows, or they can be workflows that you created and want vCAC to...
View ArticleVMware NSX 6.1 & vCAC 6.1 – Connecting NSX to vCAC
Now that we have installed and configured NSX I think it’s time we connected it to vCAC. In version 6.1 there are some changes to the integration with NSX and vCAC. When I say changes I should say...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Registering the Application Services Cloud...
Once your vCAC Application Services appliance is installed and configured, you must set up a Cloud Provider. A Cloud Provider is a system that will provide infrastructure services for the applications...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – External Network Profiles
External Network profiles in vCAC enable you to create a range of IP addresses that can used to statically assign IP address to provisioned workloads in your environment. There are two part to an...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 / NSX6.1 – Routed Network Profiles
Routed Network Profiles have a very specific function. Routed Network Profiles are used in conjunction with NSX and Multi-Machine vCAC blueprints. Routed Network Profiles are used to define the...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 / NSX 6.1 – Creating NSX Reservations
When integrating vCAC with NSX you will need to configure reservations for use with NSX. Depending on your configuration you may need one or more reservations. One reservation for your provisioned...
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 / NSX 6.1 – Creating a Multi-Machine Blueprint...
The out of the box vCAC –> NSX integration requires the use of Multi-Machine blueprints. Multi-Machine blueprints are basically a blueprint that pulls together one of more single-machine blueprint....
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Creating a One to Many NAT Network Profile
When configuring a NAT Network Profile you have two options. You can configure a one-to-one or a one-to-many. Here we are going to walk through creating a one-to-many NAT Network Profile....
View ArticlevRealize Automation – vCAC 6.1 – Creating a Private Network Profile
Private networks have no upstream (North – South) NAT or routing when they are deployed. They are networks attached to the deployed NSX Edge Gateway that have East – West routing to other netowrks...
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