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For this guide you will need a Windows 2008 R2 VM with VMware tools already installed. Step 1: Open a console in vCenter and login to the Windows server with Administrator credentials. Step 2: In the Windows Server VM go the vCAC appliance home page for example https://vcac-l-01a.corp.local:5480/install and download Continue reading How to Create a vCAC 6 Windows Guest Agent Template
For this guide you will need a Windows 2008 R2 VM with VMware tools already installed. Step 1: Open a console in vCenter and login to the Windows server with Administrator credentials. Step 2: Open a web browser to the Application Director server and download the Java edition for your Continue reading How to Create an APPD6 Windows Template
Step 1: Login to vCloud Application Director as your SSO user, for example cloudadmin@corp.local Step 2: Click drop down and navigate to applications and Click +New Step 3: Give the new app a name and click Save Step 4: Click Create App Version Step 5: Accept the default version and Continue reading How to install APPD 6 Part 3 – Create an App and Publish to vCAC Catalog
This section requires APPD templates already created in vCenter and the blueprints ready in your vCAC business groups: Don’t worry, I created step by step guides for that too! How to create an APPD 6 Linux TemplateHow to create and APPD Windows Template How to create Linked Clone Blueprints Step Continue reading How to install APPD 6 Part 2 – Adding vCAC 6 Cloud Provider
So you have mastered infrastructure as a service and your cloud consumers are hungry for more. By now your becoming a master with vCAC 6 right? Are you ready for a new challenge? Get ready to impress all your friends with application provisioning. VMware vCloud Application Director is an application Continue reading How to install APPD 6 Part 1 – Configure the Appliance
If you are trying to follow the instructions to create a vCloud Application Director 6 template you will need to know the correct agent or JRE to download and install. Here is a listing of that directory for your convenience: jre-1.7.0_45-lin32.zip jre-1.7.0_45-lin64.zip jre-1.7.0_45-win64.zip vmware-appdirector-agent-bootstrap-windows_6.0.0.0.zip vmware-appdirector-agent-service-ec2_6.0.0.0-0_i386.rpm vmware-appdirector-agent-service-ec2_6.0.0.0-0_x86_64.rpm vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_amd64.deb vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_i386.deb vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_i386.rpm vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_x86_64.rpm Continue reading Application Director 6 Agent Directory
It’s a new year so time for a new you…err cloud that is. Why not bring the sexy back to your portal by accessorizing with some sleek new icons? Be the talk of the water cooler when your users rave about the new cloud portal. Be a hero of IT! Continue reading Pimp my vCAC 6 with the new icon pack
You may remember a very popular feature that was part of vCloud Director. It was called fast provisioning and when it was enabled it allowed your cloud consumers to provision vAPP VM’s within seconds as opposed to over 24 minutes using traditional cloning in vSphere. While technically not the same Continue reading Where is Fast Provisioning in vCAC?
The Problem: When deploying an Application director 6 blueprint to a Windows based VM, the deployment is stuck in deploy phase and in vCAC the status is stuck in customize OS. In the APPD logs you get the error that appd.properties is not found. This is a result of Continue reading APPD 6 with Windows Template gotcha
Well not exactly. In vCAC 6, VMware added the ability for cloud consumers to connect to their provisioned VM’s using the VMware remote console. I titled this post as the return of the console because in retrospect of cloud products that are sunset it is almost like it was added Continue reading The return of the remote console