With the release of v10.1 yesterday, vCloud Director has been rebranded to VMware Cloud Director. In this post I will cover what does Cloud Director brings to the table.
1: vCloud Director Rebranding: Upon logging into Cloud Director UI, you will no longer see the ‘v’ of vCloud Director. vCD has been rebranded to VMware Cloud Director.
2: RIP Flex UI: Flex UI is no longer available in Cloud Director. In vCD 10.0, flex UI was disabled by default and if needed, it can be enabled back with cell-management-tool utility.
Note: Although the same command works in 10.1 also as shown below
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root@vcd1 [ ~ ]# /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/cell-management-tool manage-config -n flex.ui.enabled -v true New property being stored: Property "flex.ui.enabled" has value "true" |
But even after running this command, if you try to login to flash client, you will see a page not found error.
3: H5 UI Enhancements: The H5 interface has been enhanced for a better experience.
3a: Cloud Resources and vSphere Resources are placed under Resources sub-menu.
3b: Import From vCenter option is now available for tenants in H5 ui. Earlier this was only available in flash client.
3c: From tenant view, you will see vApp/VM sub-menu is now added on the top bar making it more easier to navigate around various options.
To perform operations on multiple vApps/VM’s at once, a Multi Select toggle button is added. Enabling that button and clicking on Select All will let you to select all vApps/VM’s at once for common operation.
A small cloud icon appearing on top right corner of vApp lets you know which VDC this vApp is part of.
A new option called “Badges” is added at vApp level which will help tenants to categorize workloads on the basis of its nature. I have not explored this option yet but this looks interesting.
And that’s it for this post.
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