Re: Question about Merging Provider vDCs
The new cluster you are merging onto does not vMotion between the old one so in the regards you should be fine. New deployments will "pick" a cluster to go to, they will not move between. Keep in mind...
View Articleupgrade vCloud Director from 5.1 to 5.5
In order to minimize the downtime, could we clone current vCloud Director VM and vShield Manager VM? then upgrade them (the cloned VMs in an isolate network) first, later we schedule a maintenance...
View ArticleConsolidate vCloud VM using vSphere
Hi everyone,Long time lurker, first time poster. I've got one single VM in a vApp in our vCloud 5.1.2 environment. This VM has hidden snapshots which I think have been caused by our image level backup...
View ArticleDirector 5.5.1 - Can't see storage policies (or their datastores/clusters)...
This is a fresh install of vcenter 5.5 & Director 5.5.1, when I first linked the vcenter into director I can see the storage policies I'd created along with their datastores but if I then edit any...
View ArticleRe: So it looks like I've crashed my vCD Appliance...
In addition to above steps (1) and (2) do following also in case if it doesn't work 3) add hostname entry added in step 1 to /etc/HOSTNAME, to make it persistent across reboots. 4) vi...
View ArticleRe: Director 5.5.1 - Can't see storage policies (or their...
Any should show all the datastore in the vCenter so long as it's still attached to your provider vDC. If you remove the Any (*) profile from a provider, you cannot add it back in because it's a...
View ArticleRe: Consolidate vCloud VM using vSphere
The preference would be to issue consolidate from the vCD UI if it's an option. If not, then yes, the only way to do it would be to consolidate from the vCenter client. This should be fine as long as...
View ArticleRe: upgrade vCloud Director from 5.1 to 5.5
In short, I would only do this if the time between the clone (As a backup) and the upgrade is non-existent. If there is any delta, based on the time span between clone and upgrade, the vShield Manager...
View ArticleRe: Director 5.5.1 - Can't see storage policies (or their...
Storage polices have to be created and edited from the webgui (the windows client ones will not show as they are the "old style") - not sure if that if you problem, but that will cause issues as both...
View ArticleRe: No hosts accessible to VDC
Hi guys, I'm trying to download and install the VCD agent. I am finding it impossible to locate the default login credentials for the VCD cell for vCloud director 5.5. First, I am using the second IP...
View ArticleRe: No hosts accessible to VDC
I do not know the default cred for the appliance, but I would not use the appliance. It is only for lab and demo use, it should not be (and is not supported) in a production vCloud environment. (Also...
View ArticleRe: No hosts accessible to VDC
Ouch, totally not a RHEL or CENT OS guy. There's no place that I can just download the agent directly? VMware doesn't host the files anywhere? It seems like a lot of work to install the full VCD...
View ArticleRe: No hosts accessible to VDC
It is a little work to just get the agent I agree. I do not see it available form the places I can download from at least.I would take the time to install the full VCD cell if you plan on this vCloud...
View ArticleRe: Move VM between vApps
I must Vent. vCloud Director was not designed and built with any common sense. You are correct, the dumb portal wants to clone VMs for any operation from a move to an import. It is ridiculous! When all...
View ArticleRe: No hosts accessible to VDC
@cfor Thanks for trying. This is for my home lab, and it's proving to be a lot of work to get this up and running. root/Default0 did not work unfortunately, but I'll work through your other...
View ArticleRe: Director 5.5.1 - Can't see storage policies (or their...
Hi Guys thank you for your replies. I'd setup the Tags, storage policies and such in the recommended order but I do appreciate the clearing up that you don't need to take the datastore clusters just...
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VCNI NETWORK ON VLCOUD DIRECTOR 5.1
Hi to everyone,I have setup a Vcloud lab and I'm testing the virtual isolation network backed (VCNI) where we can set up a single Vlan ID (in my case Vlan 30) and create up to 1000 networks (in my...
View ArticleRe: VCNI NETWORK ON VLCOUD DIRECTOR 5.1
Network Pools are just like a bucked of isolated networks. If vLAN 30 was an Apartment Building, vCDNI is like taking that apartment building and having 1000 units in it. all isolated places for VMs...
View ArticleRe: VCNI NETWORK ON VLCOUD DIRECTOR 5.1
Hi,Thanks for your reply.My goal is to understand where and when the Vcni subnets must be created and when then Dvfilter de-encapsulate the Vcni ID.Now I have an Org Network with Vlan Tag 30 and a...
View ArticleRe: VCNI NETWORK ON VLCOUD DIRECTOR 5.1
To use VCDNI network pool, you associate it with the org VDC (in org VDC properties page, network pool tab) and then when networks (org VDC or vApp) are created, they automatically use the resources...
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