Cloud Director 10.3.1 – SAML Certificate wont regenerate

There is a known bug in Cloud Director 10.3.1 when you try to regenerate the SAML federation certificate. Lets run through what happens and how to resolve it! Below is an image which shows my certificate has expired Now lets click on Edit and try and then click Regenerate Click Ok to regenerate As you …

Backup and Restore Cloud Director 10.3.1

Something new that I wanted to talk about in Cloud Director 10.3.1 is the ability to take a backup of the Cloud Director appliance from the appliance management interface. This backup can then be used to restore the primary appliance. In this post I will run through how it all works! To get started log …

Replacing Certificates in Cloud Director 10.3.1

Changing your certificates in Cloud Director has always been an interesting topic. A lot of people find the process difficult and I am sure support get a lot of calls in regards to this. Over time I hope it becomes easier for people who might not be used to working with different types of certificates. …

Changing the site name in Cloud Director

After deploying new or upgrading your Cloud Director environment to 10.2 you may notice the tenants site name displaying something similar to "Site name undefined (Site ID: 6d2f1162-b138-4aef-ac42-320f32b5d45c)" This is because the site name is not something you set during the initial setup, it has to be manually changed after deployment. When left unset it …

Getting started with the Veeam v11 Native Plug-in for vCloud Director

With the upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication v11 comes the new version of the Veeam Native vCloud Director Plugin. This addition has been a big hit with Service Providers as it allows them to integrate the Veeam Self-Service Portal directly into the vCloud Director interface. One new addition to the plugin that everyone …

Upgrade to Cloud Director 10.2

First off before we begin the upgrade its important to take a snapshot of the appliance. To do this shutdown the appliance from vCenter and then take a snapshot. Once complete power Cloud Director back on. If you have multiple Cloud Cell’s then log into one of the appliances on port 5480 to identify which …

How to enable the Flex UI in vCloud Director 10.0

In the last few releases of vCloud Director more and more capabilities have been added into the HTML5 interface to bring it in line with the older Flex UI. While it has come a long way there are still a few things (refer to the release notes) missing that some people may do on a …

vCloud Availability 3.5 appliance DNS issues

Recently I have been deploying a few new vCloud Availability 3.5 environments and I really like the product. The ability to connect multiple vCloud Director sites together and provide a migration path between them as well as in and out of the hosted platform is something IaaS providers have needed for a long time. That …

Upgrade vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance to 10

In a previous post I upgraded my vCloud Director 9.5 environment which had an SQL database over to a vCloud 9.7 Appliance with an embedded PostgreSQL database. The link for that can be found here. To follow on from this I thought it was about time I upgraded this environment to vCloud Director 10. I …

vCloud Tenant file restores via Veeam Enterprise Manager when UAC is enabled

I really like the way Enterprise Manager integrates with vCloud Director and provides tenants with an agentless way to backup and restore VMs and files. At the same time it provides a simple self-service portal that we can now integrate directly into vCloud Director with a custom plugin. When a tenant attempts to restore a …