Re: No AMQP notifications for VM soft shutdowns?
I don't think vCloud Director would have a way of doing an AMQP. A lot of them are notifications similar to blocking tasks, but there are some that aren't a blocking tasks for notification purposes....
View Articlepeople could steal IPs from the other VMs in the same organization network,...
We have a organization in vCloud that contains several vApps for different customers, they share a organization network pool (public IPs). There was a situation that one of our customers manually bind...
View ArticleRe: people could steal IPs from the other VMs in the same organization...
Don't give them the ability to do so? vCloud Director doesn't have the ability to check inside the Guest OS. You might be able to do some post provision compliance check, but if they have access to...
View ArticleVcloud direction connecting to Vcenter with 3 clusters.
Hi all, We have a vcenter with 3 clusters, we want to connect the vcloud director to only one cluster where we have Virtual distributed switch. We want to manage other two clusters with vcenter. Is it...
View ArticleGetting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
Hi there, in vCloud Director API versions prior to 5.1 there was an element in the VirtualSystem that contained a vmwareTools version, e.g.: <ovf:VirtualSystem ovf:id="Ubuntu_base_image_10_04">...
View ArticleRe: Vcloud direction connecting to Vcenter with 3 clusters.
Yes, This is possible. When you create a "Provider" in vCloud Director ... you select the Cluster you want to use as the raw compute resources. Then, when vCloud Director creates items in this...
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
did you make a typo in there somewhere? you said 5.1 twice:in vCloud Director API versions prior to 5.1 there was an element in the VirtualSystem that contained a vmwareTools version, e.g.: Now in 5.1...
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
"in vCloud Director API versions prior to 5.1" vs "Now in 5.1"
View ArticleRe: Vcloud direction connecting to Vcenter with 3 clusters.
Thanks alot for quick reply...
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
My bad for answering questions before a morning coffee. The API spec states that it should be able to provide the version of tools, assuming a set is installed on the VM. It works just fine in 5.5 for...
View ArticleRe: No AMQP notifications for VM soft shutdowns?
Thank you for the fast response! That answered my questions perfectly.
View ArticleRe: people could steal IPs from the other VMs in the same organization...
Thank you for your reply! In our situation, the customers have to have full local administrator permission for the Guest OS, and also Public IPs. Just wondering whether there is a way to binding (or...
View ArticleRe: people could steal IPs from the other VMs in the same organization...
In VMware vShield Manager, there is SpoofGuard, and it has an option "Virtual NICs IP Required Approval", do you think it can be used to deal with the issue here?
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
You're GETing a vApp's info while I'm loading s.th. like /api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-bdbe87ec-c76f-4f89-81ab-ccd651d0a28b/ovf
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
/api/vAppTemplate/vappTemplate-853a4308-3ba1-46b8-bc6c-f6ffdf06d40c/ovfThis is exactly the same URL format you are using. There is no section for VMware tools (same or different then what you have)....
View ArticlevCloud end users lose administrators group access
I have an virtual development environment organization cinsisting of about 24 VMs used by developers, who typically connect to their VMs via RDP. Several weeks ago, one of the developers reported that...
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
Look, it seems you don't understand my original question: there's clearly an API change between 1.5.1 and 5.1.2, right? No big deal, since it was announced beforehand. However I cannot find anything in...
View Article/api/supportedSystemsInfo doesn't return any entries
Hi there, according to this blog post the 5.1 API allows to load a list of supported guest OSes via /api/supportedSystemsInfo, which doesn't seem t work in our 5.1.2 setup, all I get is this: <?xml...
View ArticleDisconnected NICs on VM
We have vCloud Director running many organisations and many VMs without a problem but every once in a while (after a reboot) a VM will lose it's network connection, vCloud shows the nic as connected...
View ArticleRe: Getting VMWareTools version from vAppTemplate VMs (API)
I guess I was saying that I don't see it either ... more a confirmation of what you were seeing.
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