vCloud Director 5.1 - vApp Creation Stuck at 38%
Hello Folks,,In our environment, vApp creation process stuck at 38% for around half an hour or more after it resumes automatically. In this duration I cant even cancel the task. If I do it stuck at...
View ArticleRe: ESX hosts won't prepare in vcloud director
I had similar issues to this from memory it turned out to be an issue with our shared storage settings. As this was a home lab I was trying to cut corners on cost and was using ISCSI disk. this in turn...
View ArticleRecommended Database Recovery Model
I have a single Windows Server 2012 machine running MS SQL 2012. This server contains all of our databases for the vCloud infrastructure. As of now, all of the databases are using the Simple recovery...
View ArticleRe: Recommended Database Recovery Model
We typically recommend a Simple Recovery model, as other modes will tend to fill up the DB logs quickly. Full should be fine for vCloud Director, except that it's rather chatty depending on your...
View ArticleRemove vDC's from resource pool
Hi, We've got two resourcepools defined in our PVDC. We've decided to stop using elastic vDC's option. The VM's of all vDC;s are moved to one resource pool, so no vDC is spanned across the two resource...
View ArticleRe: Remove vDC's from resource pool
vCloud Director doesn't have a way to reconcile this automatically. I assume you are using allocation pools (since that is the only Elastic setting I can think of)? If so, you should be able to...
View ArticleRe: ESX hosts won't prepare in vcloud director
i agree that most of the time I see this there are two probable causes: 1. hosts can't evacuate fully2. storage for where the VIB gets installed is too slow/has issues The general process is an NFC...
View ArticleRe: Cannot to upload large (over 4GB size) ISO images to my catalog media on...
I am also having the exact same issue as the OP. Nothing over 4GB completes. I have opened a case with VMware but they have been completely useless. Any ideas?
View ArticleRe: Cannot to upload large (over 4GB size) ISO images to my catalog media on...
We (myself and the OP) were able to resolve the 4GB ISO upload issue. The problem we were having was actually due to the NFS mount that was causing the timeout. Not sure why because we were able to...
View ArticleRe: Migrating VMs to Different Datastores
you can set a red threshold in the datastore properties, as suggested earlier, to prevent additional provisioning to this datastore. However, if you have thin provisioned the VM's they can continue to...
View ArticleIs there a way to retrieve the storage usage for a specific org vdc through...
Hello - i'm hoping someone can tell me how to retrieve the amount of storage usage against a given allocation for a specific organziation vDC. I am using storage profiles in my environment, and when i...
View ArticleRe: VXLAN's interface's MAC is learned by upstream switch
I must to say.. switching from VMware Network&Security Manager's VXLAN to Cisco N1K shows VXLAN's behavoir as it is expected. No traffic leaks, no VXLAN's MACs learning.Definitly I used other mode...
View ArticleRe: VMware vShield Manager 5.1.2 / traffic leaks between vxlans
I must to say.. switching from VMware Network&Security Manager's VXLAN to Cisco N1K shows VXLAN's behavoir as it is expected. No traffic leaks, no VXLAN's MACs learning.Definitly I used other mode...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Connector 2.5 - Copy template from vSphere to vCloud Director fails
Take a look at this KB .. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2073208
View ArticleRe: ESX hosts won't prepare in vcloud director
Hi All Well I said it was something simple, turned out the person that manages the vcloud environment (he has been on leave) Never updated vcloud director to 5.5 so when I installed the new hosts with...
View Articlerest api error
Hello,i have vcloud director 5.5.When i call rest api from hostbill i see this error in vcloud-container-debug.log2014-03-05 17:40:31,887 | DEBUG| pool-jetty-47815 | CustomExceptionMapper |...
View ArticleRe: rest api error
Not sure of only issue - but this points to not having the public addresses section filled in with many systems. System-> Administration -> Public AddressesMake sure all three are set
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all three fileds are blank.I try to populate but when i save i see this error: class java.lang.NullPointerException
View ArticleRe: rest api error
Umm that is not good. You do need to set those values, but the error might drive you to open a case with support. Example of values (just in case format is not correct or something) VCD public URL:...
View ArticleRe: Is there a way to retrieve the storage usage for a specific org vdc...
nevermind, i've got this resolved, just simply needed to hit the /api/query?type=adminOrgVdcStorageProfile&filter=vdcName==XXXX
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