Playing with my vCloud Director lab lately, I have end up with a trouble adding one of my ESXi 5 hosts to my vCloud Director 1.5 due to an error installing the vCloud Director agent. I knew I have used the same host with beta install of vCloud Director before, & that could be the reason why the agent is missing up. Of course, I could have re-installed the ESXi host in 15 minutes and be back on track, but I decided to burn sometime trying to figure out how to fix it without re-installing it. I was able to achieve that by uninstalling the earlier installed vCloud Agent then Install the new vCloud Agent. Doing it in vSphere 4 & vSphere 4.1 was well document in KB2003486, but not how to manually install and uninstall the vCloud agent on vSphere 5. After digging it for a bit, below is how I have done it in case you need it.

1- Enter my ESXi 5 host into maintenance mode

2- SSH login to my ESXi host

3- Uninstall the older vCloud Agent from the host using the following command: esxcli software vib remove -n vcloud-agent

4- Copy the vCloud Agent for vSphere 5 from the vCloud Director servers found at: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/agent/    using the following command:

scp vcloudagent-1.5.0-453916.zip… Read More

I am still no vCloud expert at the moment, although I am learning my way through. This post will not cover how to carry out the installation of vShield or vCloud Director. I am just planning to bring the message of these products being compatible together. if what you are looking for is the instruction of installing them or integrating them together, you might want to visit my Colleague Hany Micheal blog at Hypervizor.com. The reason I am putting this brief post here, there  is too much of confusion if vCloud Director is compatible with the different vShields products.

The answer for that is yes vCloud Director is compatible with vShield Edge, vShield App, & vShield EndPoint. Its worth mentioning though the integration with vShield App & vShield EndPoint still need some polishing, but they should get that in the next vCloud Director release.

I hope this help anyone planning to figure out if he can integrate vShield in their vCloud Director Environment. It took me a while to confirm if all of them is compatible with vCloud Director.

If any of you vCloud Director Experts read this, and have a different input on this please share it in the comment area.… Read More

Today, I have been lucky to get the chance to attend the London 2011 VMUG. It has been arranged by a great team of VMware enthusiasts (Martyn Storey, Mark Stockham, Alan Renouf, Scott Vessey, Gabrie van Zanten, Simon Long, Chris Dearden). The arrangement was great & I would say over 100 people were in the room & participating in the sessions. Alan has pulled a great session about PowerCLI, which I expected from the PowerCli legend. I am glad I attended the PowerCli session as that got me started. I am really thankful for the UK VMUG team to allow me to attend while they were over-booked.

Few quick interested notes I heard during the session and might be of interested to others:

– VMware engineers are already testing the performance of 64 vCPU VMs!!! wow that is too many vCPUs. With that I don’t see any application not being apple to fit in a VM due to high processing. That is a crazy amazing amount of processing power for a VM. It’s important to mention the time frame for releasing this is not known. Will it be a part of ESX 5 or not is in the unknown till now.… Read More