Re: How are guests supposed to discover their assigned IP address when using...
It seems like the root of my troubles is that there isn't any support for "Guest Customization" for Ubuntu 12.04.
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The problem is that there is no support for 12.04 Guest Customization in vCloud. http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/compatibility-guide/guest-os-customization-metrics.pdf I'm running into this myself, and...
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After more research: I was confused before because I missed this: To use Static IP Pool you *MUST* enable Guest Customization. While Ubuntu 12.04 is not listed as supported as near as I can tell it...
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So on more attempts at this myself I was able to get all the Guest Customization features working for 12.04. One problem I had is knowing when customizations where going to be applied. Changing the...
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Hello,The cell-management-tool has an option that allows to export all tables from the vcloud database. This is described in the documentation and an explicit example is given here (browse to the...
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What was the workaround to get the customization working properly?
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Hi, Well after changing the resource numbers, I was able to power on a machine.Looks like the VDC resource are not configured correctly.I set up my vcloud, vcenter, vshiled manager and my ESXi host in...
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Hi All, I'm evaluating vCloud after using Lab manager for quite a while. I was wonder if some one with experience with vCloud can help me.What is the flow in vCloud of creating vm templates and...
View ArticlevCloud 5.1 without vSheild
Guys, Just want to verify whether it's possible to implement vCloud Director 5.1 without vCloud Networking & Security Components (i.e vShield Manager? Thanks
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I believe there must be logs in /var/log/vmware-imc. If it's not there, there is a big chance that guest customization simply does not trigger for you. The log consists of two files: -...
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vCD uses vShield components to protect and isolate the customer and resource pods,
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Yes, but is it possible to deploy vCD without it? Or the installation of vCD will fail if no vSheild Manager detected? Sent from my iPad
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My mistake, I was looking in the vCD cell for the logs, not the guest OS. I have attached them both to this reply and also tried the Power on and Force Recustomization, but that did not seem to work...
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I actually just put a how-to together for our developers internally and can share it with you. Let me know if it is helpful as I threw it together pretty quickly so it might need a few small tweaks.
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What Allocation model did you use for your Organizational VDC? If you used Reservation Pool you may not have enough resources available as well.
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Well, I can't tell you much based on what I see on that screenshot. Apparently there is an error reported by the Tools DeployPkg plugin. Most likely that means that one of the executed commands...
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It depends on how you use templates in your Lab Manager environment as different companies use them differently. End users didn't use "VM Templates" in our environment as we are a software development...
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Re: Ubuntu Auto-Generate Password
BTW, now I remember that I fixed some issue in 5.1 which was that resetpwd.awk tried to use "rpm" which was not present on some Ubuntu. Maybe it's your case. If that's the case, installing "rpm" and...
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Also, there's a bug currently with vCD that if you are using any IP assigning method other than "DHCP" for the NIC on the VM within the vApp it will change it to DHCP. The hotfix for this is not out...
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Thanks for all this info Andrii! I spent a while this weekend trying to figure out where they heck the scripts to customize where even coming from. With regards to Ubuntu 12, I would expect password...
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