Hope you enjoyed the previous series on VMware vCloud Director networking. In this post I will show you how to make the vCloud Cells available through a Load Balancer using the vShield Edge. By publishing two or more vCloud Cells behind a load balancer, it is easier to separate management network from user network and […]
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VMware vCloud 5.1 network troubleshooting
When creating NAT and firewall rules in a vCloud environment, not everything works out directly the way you had planned. This post will show you how to use Splunk to collect sys logs from the vCloud environment and make it an easy to use tool when performing some network troubleshooting. Splunk comes in a number […]
VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies part 3
I hope you enjoyed part 1 and part 2 of my VMware vCloud networking series. At least I learned a lot from writing these posts and I have now much more confidence in being able to deploy a vCloud environment. In this part I’m going to explain how to publish a Web Site from a […]
VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies part 2
In the first part I wrote on “VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies” I showed an easy way to setup and attach VMs to an organizational network and give them access to the external network and the internet. In this second part I will show you how to connect VMs to a vApp network and […]
(Presentation) Design tips for VMware vSphere 4
Recently at the Belgium VMUG I gave a presentation in which I covered some design tips for VMware vSphere 4. I talked about some business decisions that, how boring they may seem, are crucial for your design. I covered some security requirements you should check with the security department of the organisation and of course advised good […]