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How to change the default CPU and Memory requirements for deploying the VMC vCenter Cloud Gateway

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When deploying the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) vCenter Cloud Gateway (VCG), there is a minimum amount of vCPU and memory that is required for deployment. For customers who wish to evaluate this solution for non-production usage, such as a lab environment, it would be nice to be able to reduce the requirements purely for testing purposes. Today, the vCPU and Memory is not configurable and is currently encoded within a JSON configuration file as well as the VCG OVA. The fact that this is not part of the installer itself but within the OVA means we can actually change the default 🙂 Below are the instructions for updating the vCPU and Memory requirements for the VCG.

Step 1 - Download the VCG ISO from MyVMware and extract the ISO.

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New VMC API to rename SDDC

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A commonly requested feature in VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) is the ability to rename an SDDC. Currently, it is not possible to rename an SDDC after it has been deployed. On Friday, an update was made to the VMC Service to introduce a new VMC API (Tech Preview) that will allow customers to rename their SDDC. The API is just the first step and our UI folks are already working on adding this natively to the VMC UI which I actually got a sneak peak of just a few days ago.

UPDATE (02/11/19) - The ability to rename an SDDC is now also available within the VMC Console UI, so you can use either UI or API to perform this operation.


The new SDDC rename API is very straight forward to use, you simply perform a PATCH operation the specific SDDC /orgs/{orgID}/sddcs/{sddcID} which includes a payload containing the updated name. Below are three ways in which you can easily rename your SDDC, including a UI method for those that want to quickly rename an SDDC and not have to write a single line of code.

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How to retrieve the CSP Refresh Token expiry using the CSP API

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I recently had question from a customer who wanted to automate the retrieval of the expiry for a given Cloud Services Platform (CSP) Refresh Token so that they could monitor it programmatically and setup notifications before the token expires. The CSP Refresh Token is required to interact with solutions within CSP including VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC).

Customers can check the current Refresh Token expiry along with the initiate create and last used time by navigating to "My Account" in the CSP UI and under "API Tokens" as shown in the screenshot below.


To retrieve this programmatically using the CSP REST API, you will need to provide a valid Refresh Token and then perform a POST am/api/auth/api-tokens/details

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