Hi there,
Thanks for the reply, I indeed found these in the stranded list and attempted a delete but they failed, so did a force delete, this removed them from the stranded list but they still are present in vcenter under Inventory > Networking.
Thanks
Mike
Force delete just purges from vCloud Director's database/GUI.
The thing you want to look into, is why the Edge objects are not naturally being deleted. When you do a "delete" from stranded, we send an API call to vShield/NSX to delete the Edge. If this fails, we should get a message in our logs and there should be an Event in vShield/NSX.
If you have a support contract, I would attempt the delete several times and then gather logs (all vCD cells + vCNS/NSX). It's a little hard to do this via the forums since the logs can contain data you might not want to share to the general public, and the support team should be able to quickly review them.
Hi Guys,
I have created a Public Catalog and exported a Nexus 1000v ovf file in that catalog. Since this is Public catalog it has rights to publish this catalog to all organizations.
I have an organization named "developers". This organization is able to see the public catalog and deploy an new vApp from it. I can see on vCenter as new vApp appearing under developers resource pool. But poweron of this vApp is failing with below error message
" The operation could not be performed because the argument is invalid. A specified parameter was not correct.
spec.memoryAllocation.reservation
vCenter Server task (moref: task-1201) failed in vCenter Server 'Cloud_VC' (7b35a50a-dea1-48a2-9ae4-b38c74f8ffbb).
- A specified parameter was not correct.
spec.memoryAllocation.reservation"
I have assigned 5 GB RAM to my org vDC and I am using "Reservation Pool" allocation model. Also I have tried giving 1 GB, 2 GB and 3 GB RAM to this Nexus1k vApp at the time of deploying from catalog but every time i am getting same error.
Any help in this will be much appreciated.
In the deployed VM, can you go into properties and look at the two tabs:
1. There is one about the OVF details and see if there are any missing or incorrect values
2. Go into the tab about the tab about what the reservation values are for the VM and make sure those have appropriate values there as well.
Hi Jonathan,
I didnot understand your point clearly. Where exactly I should look. In my vCD or at vsphere level. If vCD then where exactly?
In vCloud Director:
1. Open up the vApp in question, go into the list of VMs for the vApp.
2. Right Click the VM, select Properties.
3. There should be several tabs here, like General ... Hardware ... etc
I think the one with the OVF properties is called "Guest Properties". This would be similar to values you had to enter if you deployed the same OVF to vCenter.
I think the reservation values is called "Resource Allocation".
I'm doing this from memory ... so don't quote me on the exact names of the tabs.
Hi John,
I tried re-configuring the vApp and set cpu and memory reservation as 0 but now I am getting different error. I have attached the screenshot of the error for your reference.
can you screen cap the Guest Properties tab as well?
IamTHEvilONE please find the attached screenshot of guest properties tab.
I tried looking for error on vcd itself by watching the log file in real time and got bunch of java codes. Only 1st line and 17th line I can understand in this and its telling same thing which I am getting in vcd console.
com.vmware.ssdc.util.LMException: Unable to start vApp "Nexus1k".
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.AbstractVAppImpl.deploySubset(AbstractVAppImpl.java:526)
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.services.impl.VAppDeploymentManagerImpl.deployVm(VAppDeploymentManagerImpl.java:398)
at com.vmware.vcloud.vapp.impl.VAppServiceImpl.deployTask(VAppServiceImpl.java:1894)
at com.vmware.vcloud.vapp.impl.VAppServiceImpl.executeTask(VAppServiceImpl.java:691)
at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:427)
at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase$2.doInSecurityContext(TaskActivity.java:421)
at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$SecurityContextTemplate.executeForOrgAndUser(TaskActivity.java:674)
at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.execute(TaskActivity.java:421)
at com.vmware.vcloud.backendbase.management.system.TaskActivity$ExecutePhase.invoke(TaskActivity.java:354)
at com.vmware.vcloud.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:109)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: com.vmware.ssdc.util.LMException: Invalid vApp properties: Property value not defined in value map.,Property value not defined in value map..
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.AbstractVAppImpl.customizeVMs(AbstractVAppImpl.java:1007)
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.AbstractVAppImpl.deploy(AbstractVAppImpl.java:592)
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.AbstractVAppImpl.access$000(AbstractVAppImpl.java:105)
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.AbstractVAppImpl$1.run(AbstractVAppImpl.java:489)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
at com.vmware.ssdc.backend.AbstractVAppImpl.deploySubset(AbstractVAppImpl.java:504)
Okay. This I might be able to work with ... I wouldn't expect anyone outside VMware to know what most/any of this means.
In seeing the "Guest Properties" there is one item missing. I think the Nexus 1000v has a few deployment modes, like "Installer" vs "Manually Configure" which is selected as a drop down box. vCloud Director won't be able to handle this as far as I know.
If the Nexus OVF descriptor uses a "ValueMap" (list of string values), I'm not sure if this will work. We might pick the default, but sometimes the default is not a valid selection.
e.g. first value might be "pick one of the below", 2nd would be "installer", 3rd "manual config". the first does nothing, but the other 2 do.
I had a similar issue. I had to reset Administrator account password in the Customization Specification. Hope this help.
Cheers.
Problem is with your catalogue here.
Nexus suppose to work with integrating vcloud director parallely. not to be deploy inside as a vapp.And NExus have its own requirement which interact with the dvswitch. i will suggest you to deploy some other vapp like windows/linux and see if that works.
Hi John,
I guess you are right here. I discussed this with my fellow counterpart Anjani_Kumar last night and we tried deploying a server 2003 vm from catalog and it was deployed without any issues.
Thanks for the reply again,
Unfortunately i could wait the 5 days it take vmwatre TS to go through the logs, so went ahead and did this:
1. Ensured the port group connected to the vApp was deleted in vcloud, (my my case force delete in stranded items)
2. powered down the VSE system VM running in the port group in VCenter
3. Deleted that VM
4, Deleted the port group in Vcenter.
When i then attempted to start a VM in that port group, it re-created the port group, and the vse VM and then started the VM's in vcloud.!
BONUS!
Thanks again for the replies!
which means that you'll have some left over entries in vShield Manager for edge references that are "not deployed". I think you might have to remove them from the API. The vCD logs would have a reference like "edge-####", then you would issues a DELETE API call to the edge's URL.
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Can someone please share the steps I need to take to fix this?
I apologize since i see reference to them but dont see them posted.
I have been having this issue for quite a while as well and VMWare support has not been able to fix :-(
thanks
This worked with vCloud Director 5.6.3 with SQL 2008 database backend. You should probably check with support if this would be a fix.
Shutdown vCloud Director on the cells (VMware KB: Using the Cell Management Tool to shut down a vCloud Director cell). The vCD services must be stopped on all Cells.
Make sure you have a backup of the database!
Run the following SQL queries on the database to delete the QRTZ tables.
delete from dbo.compute_resource_inv;
delete from dbo.custom_field_manager_inv;
delete from dbo.cluster_compute_resource_inv;
delete from dbo.datacenter_inv;
delete from dbo.datacenter_network_inv;
delete from dbo.datastore_inv;
delete from dbo.datastore_profile_inv;
delete from dbo.dv_portgroup_inv;
delete from dbo.dv_switch_inv;
delete from dbo.folder_inv;
delete from dbo.managed_server_inv;
delete from dbo.managed_server_datastore_inv;
delete from dbo.managed_server_network_inv;
delete from dbo.network_inv;
delete from dbo.resource_pool_inv;
delete from dbo.storage_pod_inv;
delete from dbo.storage_profile_inv;
delete from dbo.task_inv;
delete from dbo.vm_inv;
delete from dbo.property_map;
delete from QRTZ_SCHEDULER_STATE;
delete from QRTZ_FIRED_TRIGGERS;
delete from QRTZ_PAUSED_TRIGGER_GRPS;
delete from QRTZ_CALENDARS;
delete from QRTZ_TRIGGER_LISTENERS;
delete from QRTZ_BLOB_TRIGGERS;
delete from QRTZ_CRON_TRIGGERS;
delete from QRTZ_SIMPLE_TRIGGERS;
delete from QRTZ_TRIGGERS;
delete from QRTZ_JOB_LISTENERS;
delete from QRTZ_JOB_DETAILS;
Afterwards start vCloud Director on one of the Cells (service vmware-vcd start). Do not start any other Cells.
After about 5 minutes you should be able to log back into the vCloud Director UI and if you go to System > Manage & Monitor > vSphere Resources > vCenters, you should see vCenter reconnecting and resyncing the inventory. Then once everything is back up you can start the other Cells.
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