Replace the vCD Transfer Storage

If you have a new NFS share and want to replace it with the existing one, you can follow something below,

For example you setup a new share name: 192.168.1.5:/mnt/esxsan/nfs/vcdshare

Setup Transfer Server Storage on vCD cell

It is very simple and straight forward to setup. The transfer server storage is basically mounted on the path "/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer/" on the vCD cell. If it is a single cell then the transfer storage is mounted on the local disk.

Pre-requisites,

• NFS server with fully setup shares.
• NFS server and share details.
• Atleast one vCD cell.
• Both NFS and vCD must talk to each other.

vCloud Networking

Different vCloud networks

I will attempt to lay out some of the networking concepts used in vCloud Director. So for a start this is divided into three networks layers,

• External Network
• Organization Network
• vApp Network

Prepare Host for VXLAN

The VXLAN network gets created automatically when you create the first PvDC. But if you are facing issues setting up VXLAN network in the PvDC then probably you  may have missed the below,

1. Login to the vCNS.

Add vCenter to vCD

Here is how you add the vCenter to vCD,

1. Login to the vCD application page, that looks like something below,