Re: vCloud Director server to be added to active directory or not
vCloud Director should not care, as long as the vCloud account and group created (local unix group) are not changed or affected. I have not seen any guides saying to or to not do this. VMware provides...
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I would ensure that all the Group and User IDs are identical for vcloud:vcloud on each cell. This makes a difference when you have multiple cells, as the group/user ID values are stored on NFS volumes...
View ArticleRe: One Vapp VMs disconnect from network randomly
One thing to check (we had this issue a lot in the past)if a host running a VM runs out of host DVS ports it will disconnect the nic, it will not ever reconnect until you go in vCenter and check the...
View Articlequery did not return a unique result: 2
I had an issue after upgrading to vCloud 5.5 that I could not deploy any vApps with nested ESXi hosts. It turned out that the workaround I put in place in vCloud 5.1 by adding the OS type of...
View ArticleRe: query did not return a unique result: 2
Thanks for the heads up. Can you specifically state what your fix was? e.g. this table, delete newer/older value based on this query parameters? Not many people do nested ESXi with vCD, but it would...
View ArticleLDAP Sync failure.
Hello, An LDAP sync failure has presented itself in our vCloud director instance. Test connections and synchronization have completed successfully but without any changes to the actual user lists. The...
View ArticleRe: query did not return a unique result: 2
The table is "guest_os_type" the column that had a duplicate was internal_name. I had the entry I placed in it which had vmkernel5Guest and vCloud also created an entry for ESXi 5.x. I left the...
View ArticlevCloud director 5.5 setup from scratch
Hi All, My apologies, as this question may be very basic to most of you. I am new to vCD 5.5 and wanted to implement it as a pilot phase. I need help on how can I start in terms of components. I have...
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Hi Abhishek, I assume that you aware about the architecture and how product works. I gather that you already have ESXi 5.5 and vCenter 5.5, please follow below steps to setup a simple vCD Setup. What...
View ArticleHow can I create Nested VMware ESXi in vCloud 5.5
Hi, I how can I create a nested ESXi VM in vCloud 5.5.I followed the instructions below but it wont appear as a selected OS in the database, it only created an option but the dropdown shows the...
View Articlevcloud appliance 5.1 and duplicate uuid
I'm using vcloud 5.1 virtual appliance to test trendmicro deep security 9.0A big problem is that all instances and virtual machines that are deployed from a given catalog vApp/template in vCloud...
View ArticleRe: Attaching independent disk to a vm
Thought I'd follow up to this as I've sort of sorted it out. Apparently there was a problem with the storage profile that was causing the actual disk creation to fail, though vCloud returned success...
View ArticleRe: One Vapp VMs disconnect from network randomly
Thanks cfor, After change NIC emulation to VMXNET3 . the problem is seemed gone. Thanks
View Articlequery did not return a unique result: 2
I had an issue after upgrading to vCloud 5.5 that I could not deploy any vApps with nested ESXi hosts. It turned out that the workaround I put in place in vCloud 5.1 by adding the OS type of...
View ArticleCells, vCenter Proxy service not running. Qrtz_tables query?
Kia Ora. Have vCloud 5.5 (latest), vcenter & esxi 5.5u1 in a small 2 host environment. Just noticed that no one can perform operations that relate to the vCenter. Rebooted the lot nicely. No...
View ArticleProblems connecting to vCenter from vCloud Director "Attach a vCenter"
Hey Folks, I have built a vCloud director server from scratch and when I get to the point to attach the vCenter, I keep getting an error saying "Failed to connect to vCenter. Please check this is a...
View ArticleRe: Problems connecting to vCenter from vCloud Director "Attach a vCenter"
Hey Folks, I ended up rebuilding the VCD server from scratch using command-line only version of RHEL 6.1 this time. There were a few more wrinkles dealing with RPM files and I had to tweak the...
View ArticleVmware-vcd service is not starting : VCD 5.1.3
in vcloud-container-debug.log2014-05-19 18:13:15,214 | ERROR | Start Level Event Dispatcher | ContextLoaderListener | Application context refresh failed...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.5 does not show all of the guest properties define in OVA
Hi All,I am working with a partner who is having a issue after upgrading to VCD 5.5Problem: vCloud Director 5.5 does not show all of the guest properties define in OVA. Same OVA worked fine with...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.5 does not show all of the guest properties define in OVA
This is a bug in VCD 5.5.0 and 5.5.1. It will be fixed in 5.5.2. If you can't wait for the fix then there's a hotpatch available. If you file a support request then GSS can give you the hotpatch
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