VMware vmtoolsd documentation
Hi Can you help me to find some documentation which describes the vmtoolsd tool available on the guest VMs.I already found some documentation how to install VMware tools in general. On some forums I...
View ArticleRe: vcenter showing "syncing inventory"
A vCenter must sync before you can perform operations with it. Unl;ess the vCenter is having issues or is really large it should only take minutes. If it is "stuck" (and this can happen) you might...
View ArticleRe: Starting vCloud Director VMs in vCenter takes 2 minutes
A couple of things to look at... 1. How many directories exist on the data volume these VM's reside at? (If over about 1k this is a known ESXi issue) [Does not sound like your issue, but something to...
View ArticleRe: Regarding Scaling out using vcloud director
Not in vcloud director - most providers create custom portals for vcloud in order to add features like that.Also to note, a provider should be watching customer resources - if a customer is low many...
View ArticleRe: Starting vCloud Director VMs in vCenter takes 2 minutes
Also, if you are using Fenced vApps or a NAT Routed vApp Internal network the system has to deploy/update VSE's before it even powers on the VM's within the vApp.
View ArticleRe: Starting vCloud Director VMs in vCenter takes 2 minutes
It's the VM that takes so long, not the vapp. Also the linked clones takes too long. In vCenter the clone process is fast until 95% then it takes mor than 2 minutes until the linked clone finishes in...
View ArticleRe: Unable to customize guest opetrating system windows xp
Thanks, Do you know what comes under pre customization and what comes under post customization?I assume Computer name and Network settings comes under pre customization? and SID and admin pass and...
View ArticleRe: Unable to customize guest opetrating system windows xp
Hi John, > Thanks, Do you know what comes under pre customization and what comes under post customization?I assume Computer name and Network> settings comes under pre customization? and SID and...
View ArticleRe: VMware vmtoolsd documentation
Hi Denes, I don't know where is the official doc, but quick googling gives these links:...
View ArticleGetting a VM to keep its static IP in Vcloud
Morning all, I'm new to Vcloud, i've been using Lab Manager for a while and am trying to eval Vcloud as a replacement. I've got everything running i believe correctly (not a fan of vsheild!!!!) but...
View ArticleCryptographic Error on vCD Configure
Hi I've just moved from self signed certificates to certificates issued from our internal CA. I've imported the root and issuing certificates, and also imported the certificate responses for HTTP and...
View ArticleUser Credentials Cannot be used for local connections
Hi, I am creating several vms in the same vApp, say 6 vms in a vApp. One of my VM say VM1 has to communicate with the other 5. It attempts to get the systemDrive of the other 5 vms, using the network...
View ArticleRe: How to add a new disk to reside in a particular datastore in vapp
is there any guide or white paper from Vmware which states this function for vcloud director 1.5.x where all disks are located to the same datastore
View ArticleRe: How to add a new disk to reside in a particular datastore in vapp
Also keep in mind a proper 5.1 setup will used Storage Profiles that may have many datastores - you will not be able to define what datastore is used (unless you make lots of profiles and control that...
View ArticleRe: Getting a VM to keep its static IP in Vcloud
One way to setup a vApp so the local scope IP's will not change. (Keep in mind the NAT IP will change, but that is normally only used for training systems to get a RDP session in) Add each VM to the...
View ArticleRe: Getting a VM to keep its static IP in Vcloud
Thanks for your answer, I would try it if it actually let me create a vApp network! god i'm seriously getting fed up with this, i've been on this for weeks and i'm no more better off than i was on day...
View ArticleRe: Getting a VM to keep its static IP in Vcloud
This is a bug and will be fixed in the next patch release (5.1.2) buckmp wrote: Morning all, I'm new to Vcloud, i've been using Lab Manager for a while and am trying to eval Vcloud as a replacement....
View ArticlevCloud resource requests and approval
Dear Folks, Please bear if this is a noob question. But I'm new to vCloud Director. I was going through all the official documentation for deploying and managing VMware vCloud director. But no where I...
View ArticleVM guest customization
Hi How can we determine if the guest customization of the VM has finished? In the VM section of the VAPP there is a flag called needCustomization. This is true by defaultif customization is...
View ArticleRe: VM guest customization
Hi Denes, Well, currently there is no easy way. vCenter events are not posted consistently in VCD 5.1 and even when they are, there might still be final reboot. The best you can do is described at...
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