Re: vCloud and resellers
After I posted the question,I saw there is/was a product VMware Cloud Integration Manager, don't know if it is still available. Thanks anyway. Bart
View ArticleRe: Internal Server Error - invalidProperty = spec.url
These hosts and vCloud were recently upgraded from 5.0 to 5.5 (1.5.2 to 5.5 for vCloud).Passwords have not changed.During this process the hosts were unprepared and prepared. I assume this installs...
View ArticleRe: Problems logging into vCloud Director with Power CLI
I have tried creating a test user (with org admin rights) and now I get a 500 error (internal server error).I get the same when I try to navigate to the url/api/versions as well. Any thoughts?
View ArticleRe: Download Windows RDP File option with ROUTED vApp Network
Thanks IamTHEvilONE vCD Version:5.1.2.1068441 vApp Diagram Tab:Virtual Machines Tab:RDP File Results:
View ArticleRe: Download Windows RDP File option with ROUTED vApp Network
Well, I can say that this issue still happens in vCloud Director 5.5, where you see the Internal IP instead of the NAT address in the RDP download link. Can you file a Technical Support request for...
View ArticleRe: Download Windows RDP File option with ROUTED vApp Network
Doing that now. Thanks for taking the time to confirm this in 5.5. I appreciate it.
View ArticlevCloud Director Disaster Recovery
Dear Folks, While I'm searching on DR topic for vCloud Director, I found this article: VMware vCloud Director 5.1 disaster recovery demonstration using VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 | VMware Support...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director Disaster Recovery
Some vendors (like Symantec(NetBackup)) have products to handle standard backup/restore style protection for vCloud. What type of DR are you looking for, mutli-site failover or just detect and restore?
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director Disaster Recovery
Veeam and Zerto also have offerings in this DR situation. Veeam is more like backup and restore (Enhanced support for vCloud Director with Veeam Backup & Replication v7 - Recorded Webinars),...
View ArticleRe: About web console in VMware vCloud Director
At minimum you need two IPs, two FQDNs (one to each IP Address), and two certificates (to each FQDN/IP). The only exception to this is using a Wildcard Certificate, which can be used twice (once for...
View ArticleError after new install of vCD - no webpage displaying
Hi All, I'm trying to do a fresh installation of vCD and am having some issues getting the web portal to display.I have the below error in the cell.log file: Uncaught Exception. Originating thread:...
View ArticleStateless Auto-Preparation of vCloud Hosts
Dear community, I have built a vCloud Director 5.1 deployment using Auto-Deployed hosts for the Provider VDC. In order for the auto-deployed hosts to function as vCloud hosts, I had to build in the...
View ArticleRe: Error after new install of vCD - no webpage displaying
Have you configured the DNS name of the server properly? Does it resolve the name correctly? its either a issue with your DNS name or the DB connection where it is not able to register you host with DB...
View Articlewhy does it need unique VLAN id for each external network?
Sometimes, we have multiple public networks with a same VLAN, but in this case, we could not add them as external network in vCloud Director, it complains the VLAN ID has been used, so we have to...
View ArticleRe: why does it need unique VLAN id for each external network?
If they are the same vLAN on the same Switch, they are effectively the exact same thing from vCloud Director's perspective. The alternative, is seeing if the Overlapping External Networks allows this...
View ArticleRe: Stateless Auto-Preparation of vCloud Hosts
I only have seen this once or twice, and I think there was some post script after the ESXi host was booted to call something to prepare the host afterwards. Here is the example command: VMware vCloud...
View ArticleRe: why does it need unique VLAN id for each external network?
Thank you for the information. Just wondering whether it could cause any issue, if we enable this "Overlapping External Networks".
View ArticleRe: Internal Server Error - invalidProperty = spec.url
No mention of this error in the hostd.logs.Attached for good measure, if anyone is interested. I went back a few rotations. There should be 3 instances of this error in the time frame of the logs....
View ArticleRe: Error after new install of vCD - no webpage displaying
Thanks for the response Abhilash. I'm pretty sure that DNS is fine as I am able to perform lookups and reverse lookups for the IP addresses from the vCD server and other machines on the network. I've...
View ArticleNo AMQP notifications for VM soft shutdowns?
Hi everyone, I'm listening to vCD's AMQP broker with the interest of capturing VM state changes. I've successfully identified the notifications for the usual state cases: power on, stop, suspend, etc....
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