Introduction We recently stood up a fresh vSphere 8.0 Update 3 environment. Since it was a clean start, we decided we did not want to drag the old Host Profiles feature along with us anymore, and instead go with the newer vSphere Configuration Profiles (VCP). In vSphere 8 Update 3 Read more
Introduction Once in a while you’ll need to decommission an Organization in VMware Cloud Director (VCD), for example when a tenant leaves. Recently while doing this for a tenant, let’s call it CustomerA, the delete of the Org and its Org VDC reported success without any errors. Afterwards though, both Read more
Introduction I’ve been playing around with the VCF HoloDeck tookit lately to explore how we would like to use VCF. This toolkit provides a fully automated way of deploying VCF in a lab environment so you can learn and play around. I will be doing a lot more of these Read more
Introduction Welcome to the last post for 2025! I encountered a strange issue a couple of months ago and never came around creating a blog for it until now. This post will be a bit lengthy and will have several different issues, that we encountered in one go, that we Read more
Introduction Once in a while you will have to remove a Resource Pool (vSphere Cluster in vCenter Server) in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). In this specific case we are using Elastic Provider VDC’s (pVDC’s). This means that a single pVDC can hold several physical backed vSphere Clusters on the back-end Read more
Fixing relocate taskt timeouts in VCD was never easier. Read the blog to find out.
Introduction Recently we had to upgrade a lot of our Usage Meter estate from version 4.8 to version 9. After the upgrade, we had a lot of Usage Meters that did not complete collections correctly. It did not seem we had any other issues that made obvious what was happening. Read more
Introduction Starting last month Broadcom announced the general availability for a new version of VMware Usage Meter. This time we were required to upgrade from v4.8 to v9 (inline with the upcoming VCF 9 release). This upgrade is mandatory for all Pinnacle Partners and their respective White Label Partners within Read more
Introduction Starting with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.5 VMware made a new construct possible within the product. A replication tracking (RT) VM object. This is something that users that have seen VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) do and use within VCD. However, there is not much documentation online that explains Read more
Introduction It’s been a bit quiet lately on the blog! However that changes now that I’ve found a new bug in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The bug is not yet known nor is there a KB for it, however I am here to help. Lately we’ve encountered a situation in Read more