Re: vCloud Connector 2.0 Node password
Found it !!!! The installation manual says to enable guest customization when you deploy this VM inside the vCloud as a vApp. But when enabling this, somehow also the option "Password reset" also got...
View ArticlevCloud Director conflicts local user with an import SAML User if use same...
if create local user name in vCD Org which exist in SAML user (exist same login in AD/SSO Identity management system) , then vCD SSO login throw an authentication failed. For example,Create a “User1”...
View ArticleSecondary IP without Gateway and manual config
Hello, Our VMs have a primary NIC witch is connected to an external network, and the IP assigned via VCD, now we want to add a secondary NIC but we want to handle the IPs manually, since the network...
View ArticleRe: Disable time sync in VM
Hi,thanks for your replys. Do you have a small peace of code to demonstrate how to disable the sync options using the vcloud director api? I played a bid with the api but there are no attributes for...
View ArticleRe: Secondary IP without Gateway and manual config
Hi Andreas, I believe with the current implementation for Windows "Static" (pool/manual) will always configure gateway on the primary NIC, but not for the secondary NIC. This is implementation detail...
View ArticleRe: Secondary IP without Gateway and manual config
The primary NIC is not necessarily the first NIC - it's whichever NIC you specify as primary
View ArticleRe: control tenants content
I dealt with this issue in the past. I just simply used openDNS because it was a terminal server that I didn't want users abusing the bandwidth of the datacenter. So I set active directory forwarders...
View ArticleRe: Bizzare vShield Edge NAT/VPN Issue Post-5.1 Upgrade
I had a strange issue with vSE and VPN tunnels when I upgraded from 1.5 to 5.1 as well. All VPN traffic INBOUND to vCD was just not happening. I converted all rules and everything seemed fine. Tunnel...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director conflicts local user with an import SAML User if use same...
you can't have two users with the same exact name in vCloud Director (System is the org for Sys Admins), regardless of the source of the user id ... that column is unique in the vcloud director database.
View ArticleRe: How to Export a VM or vApp to UNC Path
I think this is one of the key differentiators between Lab Manager and vCloud Director. In ESX Classic, we had the smbmount command. Lab Manager's export feature mounted the CIFS/SMB share directly...
View ArticleRe: Bizzare vShield Edge NAT/VPN Issue Post-5.1 Upgrade
morpheus pointed us in the right direction. If you log in to vShield Manager and look at the firewall rules there, a "Deny" rule with the private/internal/translated IP is added for any NAT rule that...
View ArticlevCPU Allocation
Hey guys, I ran into the first issue of vCPU usage...Didn't know it existed until now. I guess you can only run 25 vCPU's per physical core on a server? I created all of my templates with 2 sockets and...
View ArticlevCloud Director and VXLAN design questions
I'm looking to possibly turn on VXLANs on my PVDC since upgrading from 1.5 to 5.1.1. A few questions I have regarding them is lingering in my head at the moment. I will explain the best I can in detail...
View ArticleRe: Bizzare vShield Edge NAT/VPN Issue Post-5.1 Upgrade
Looks like this is a known issue during upgrade. Those hidden firewall rules won't go away until the firewall config is updated in some way. So upgrade would go like- 1) Upgrade VCD2) Upgrade VSM3)...
View ArticleRe: vCPU Allocation
By default, VCD only allocates 5% of a physical CPU as a limit to a given VM (see: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/09/22/vcd-allocation-models/) which is very very little performance. Up that to...
View ArticleRe: vCPU Allocation
Thats specified in the Org vDC tho and the worsto ne if you dont pick up on it PAYG as its set to 0.26GHz by default.This was just a template so im assuming the Org vDC is the same one that was...
View ArticleRe: vApp in Catalog: Network Configuration problems at deployment using...
I experience this behaviour in 5.1 as well.
View ArticleRe: vApp in Catalog: Network Configuration problems at deployment using...
Hi all, I believe you're facing some design limitation of the "Customize VM settings" mode which was still the case for 5.1 "Make identical copy" works as expected, since the idea is that captured VM...
View ArticleRe: vCPU Allocation
I did specify Pay as you go model and the default is .26GHz. That's what doesn't make sense to me at least. See attached for my allocation settings. I am trying to max out the server with VMs which is...
View Articleexporting vcloud templates
Hello, I am running vcloud 5.1.1. I have a 550 GB Vapp template that I wish to export to Vcenter as vmx and vmdk file to use outside of Vcloud. The size of my transfer storage on vcloud server is only...
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