I've an environment with a vcloud director, a vcenter, 2 different clusters: clusterA and clusterB
Each cluster give resources to a different providerVDCs: clusterA to providervdcA and clusterB to providervdcB
Both the providersVDCs contain, orgs, orgVDCs, vapps and so on.
Now I need to move clusterB (and providervdcB, orgs, vapps...) to a new vcenter and a new vcloud director.
Which is the procedure to do it ?
"Now I need to move clusterB (and providervdcB, orgs, vapps...) to a new vcenter and a new vcloud director."
As far as I recall, there isn't a very clean way to do this. There are some things you can do to make it easier.
For example, if you can stand up the vCloud Director, vCenter, and a small number of ESXi hosts (even just one) ... you can do something like this.
1. Publish a catalog from the existing vCloud Director instance in the Orgs
2. Use the new vCloud to subscribe to it.
3. Sync the catalog.
4. Then copy the contents to a local catalog. (this is to be done for when you break the sync eventually)
You can do the same sort of thing for vApps, assuming the new vCloud Director instance has virtually identical settings in the Org vCD to the Original.
1. Power off the vApp,
2. Copy the vApp to catalog with Identical settings preserved,
3. Sync to the other side,
4. deploy one copy of it,
5. Verify that it works
6. then delete it from catalog and the source vCloud Director instance.
Some companies offer solutions that can make this a bit more automatic, but the above is at least included in vCloud Director itself.
Since you are using a blogpost from Anthony Spiteri as input, why not consider a more recent one about vCD 9.
https://anthonyspiteri.net/enabling-configuring-and-viewing-metrics-in-vcloud-director-9-0/
The v9 tenant UI has a nice monitoring chart for each virtual machine so you don't have to pull your metrics from cassandra yourself and make it available for your tenants. VMware has done the work for you!
Of course this requires a vCD upgrade but I can tell you it is worth your time.
You can't directly change a NIC from one type to another. Not the GUI or API will allow this. The forbidden message likely comes along with the 'Cannot change network adapter type of existing virtual machine.' message as well.
The only way I can think of doing it is this and definitely test this on a non-critical or test system first.
1. Stop the VM in vCloud Director.
2. Capture the NIC config of the VM ... note the MAC address.
3. Remove the existing NIC in vCloud Director
4. Add a new NIC of VMXNET3 in vCenter and set the MAC as static and the original as captured from step 2.
5. Validate that the NIC appears in vCloud Director and that the network is correctly assigned to it.
6. Power on the VM in vCloud Director.
To be honest, I don't think this would work. vCloud Director absolutely doesn't like the VM configuration being modified in vCenter at all. vCD also doesn't allow Static MAC addresses on NICs to be determined by the User. This just isn't very "cloud like" ... the MAC should not matter in the grand scheme of things, but it really sucks when software binds to some specific hardware bit for licensing.
I want to try and build a re-usable PoweShell script to create a vCD ORG, VDC, vAPP, Edge GW and program the edge GW NAT and FW rules. I would like to use the API since it seems like the way things are moving versus powercli. Does anyone have an example similar to the blog below? I know the blog is writing with powercli in mind. I am looking for some example with PowerShell using the Invoke-RestMethod and VDC API.
Automating creation of vCD Organizations, Users and Org vDCs - VMware PowerCLI Blog - VMware Blogs
I am facing the same issue. unfortunately nobody answered.
Hi,
My customer have HA edge gateway configured to size compact. Now they need more resources (ram and cpu) to edge.
I try to find some articles about it but I could not find any.
Is it possible just increasing RAM/CPU to edge gateway VM or somehow change edge gateway configuration size from compact to large?
Thanks,
Ano
HI,
Yes, it´s possible. You can go to the Organization VDC, Administration tab and NSX Edges. You select the NSX Edge and Modify Form Factor.
I hope it helps you.
Thanks!
Thanks for the info, I have currently just ran into this issue.
From what i understand you are saying is that if we add a new hosts and before prepping them in VCD 9.0 we have make sure that VXLAN and the host preps from NSX is setup ?
We have not setup NSX or vshield earlier version with VCD and have not run into this issue only now when upgrading from VCD 5.5 to 9.0
thanks in advance.
Hi,
Thank you, it helps .
Hi,
OK, perfect!
Can you mark the question answered?
Thanks!!
Hello.
Create an Organization When VDC Network With a Routed Connection
Please tell me about guest VLAN movements.
① If you have made a check by putting "Check VLAN Allowed"
② When creating without checking the VLAN VLAN Allowed
I tried creating both ① and ②
I could use it the same way, so I did not know what was different.
Create an Organization VDC Network With a Routed Connection
Guest VLAN Allowed
Hi,
I have a problem to connect vCD9 HTTPS REST API base URL with Veeam B&R 9.5 as a vCloud backup,
cell working directly,
throught tool "Postman" returns POST/GET call without any error (Status is 200 OK)
but "HTTPS REST API base URL" example -> https://<vcd-public-FQDN>/API
or https://<vcd-public-FQDN>/API/Versions, ... API is not reasonable ?
returns blank page with error (Status 404 Not Found)
is this networking problems ?
or how to I check if in vCD9 REST API is working correct on vCD9
BTW
on vCD 5.5 all working perfect - network settings on all vDC is identical
THX
Julius
Hi,
Since the Interopability Matrix is not updated yet, do you know if vCD 9.1 supports vSphere 6.7, and if not, is there any time frame on when it will be supported?
Regards,
Andreas Cederlund
Andreas - please stay posted, I know the team is working on this along with Usage Meter. We will update the interop matrix once it's validated. Thanks.
Thanks for the update, looking forward to see the results
The normal behavior is that "https://<FQDN>/api/versions" returns a XML file. Even with a browser.
Take a look at my PowerShell Module:
But I did not use RestAPI natively... But it works fine for me.
Why do you want to use RestAPI?
Some vCD RestAPI Examples with PowerShell can be found here:
Yes,
only after first step - authentication, vCD API send XML fiel,
but https://<FQDN>/api/versions returns status - "404 Not found"
I don´t know what can I do....
J.Kovac
Three chances:
1. Upgrade to 9.1 and use the HTML5 tenant UI.
2. Use PowerCli:
$ovfPath = "C:\users\me\desktop\MyCoolAppliance.ovf"
$orgVdc = Get-OrgVdc "My Org vDC"
$catalog = Get-Catalog "My Catalog"
Import-CIVAppTemplate -SourcePath $ovfPath -OrgVdc $orgVdc -Catalog $catalog
3. On windows, save the following with .cmd esxtension and launch Chrome using this script:
rem (c) 2017 Emanuele Roserba - use this script as you like - it's an improvement of KB2150215 for lazy guys like me
rem This batch launches a session of Chrome allowing it to use VMware Client Integration Plugin
rem the Chrome session will have lowered security - must be used only to connect to a VCD installation
rem
rem let's go where we can read and write
cd %userprofile%
rem then create the working folder for Chrome
if not exist %userprofile%\VCDplugin mkdir %userprofile%\VCDplugin
cd "VCDplugin"
rem on subsequent launchs we need to delete this file otherwise Flash will not load correctly
del "Local State"
rem finally we can open Chrome with the plugin doing is job
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://vcloud.tinext.com/cloud/ --user-data-dir="%userprofile%\VCDplugin" --ignore-certificate-errors
Best regards, e.