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 …

Veeam Enterprise Manager 10 – How to modify the default theme

In a previous post I walked you through how to modify the default theme of Enterprise Manager 9.5. Now it's time to do the same with Enterprise Manager 10. I have been playing with Enterprise Manager for a while now and I especially like the ability to integrate the product with vCloud Director. After using …

Smart Licence Commands Fail on HX Edge Cluster

I came across an interesting error when trying to licence a Hyperflex Edge Cluster the other day. Each time I ran the stcli license show all command I received the following message, The cluster itself is running 4.0(2a) which turns out to be the reason why we are currently seeing this issue. So at this …

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 …

Synthetic Full Jobs created via the Self-Service Portal run slower by default

Recently I have been troubleshooting an interesting issue with some of my weekly synthetic full jobs. The incremental backup would run as per normal and then it would start the synthetic full which would take over 2 days. This job is quite large and I did expect it to take some time to complete but …

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 …

Veeam v10 – Linux Proxies have arrived

This year I was extremely fortunate to attend the Veeam Vanguard Summit in Prague. This event is held each year in this beautiful location and each member of the Vanguard Program is invited to attend. First off I have to start by thanking Rick Vanover, Nikola Pejkova and the entire Product Strategy and R&D Teams …

Deploying Cisco HyperFlex Edge Cluster via Intersight over 4G – Part 1

When I heard Cisco were releasing Hyperflex Edge Nodes that do not require the use of fabric interconnects I was very keen to take them for a test drive. Without the fabric interconnects there is no UCS Manager so the configuration is done using Cisco Intersight. Another plus is you no longer have to deploy …

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 …