Re: Ubuntu Auto-Generate Password
Yeah, seems like dhcp3 is one more thing which has changed. customize-guest.sh has it like this: DHCLIENT_CONF=/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf Thanks for investigating and sharing the workaround! With regards...
View ArticleRe: vCloud 5.1 without vSheild
When you attach a vCenter Server to your vCloud Director environment you also need to provide details of the associated vShield Manager, so it is a requirement even if you don't use routed oVDC/vApp...
View ArticleRe: Adding a second ldap server
It would be recommended that you load balance the LDAP service (with health monitoring) in this case.
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
Hi Eric, Thanks so much on your help and efforts. BTW Happy New year !! In our Lab Manager configuration we set up VM template for each machine we wanted to test, Basically each machine in our...
View ArticleRe: The operation failed because no suitable resource was found
Hi Eric, Thanks so much on your help and efforts. BTW Happy New year !!.My issue is probably resource usage, I'm running my hosts in a nested ESXi and not in a powerful machine. I set up "Allocation...
View ArticleRe: vCloud 5.1 without vSheild
No it is a requirement, during instanciation of a vCloud, you must provide the location of your vShield manager.
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
Hi, I relay appreciate your help.Thanks on the document, it is well written and help me a lot.I'm still missing a document similar to your great doc with other method on how deploy large scale of...
View ArticleMultiple vCenter servers. Is vCloud Director the answer?
HiWe have multiple vCenter servers attached to various private cloud platforms. Would vcloud director be the best solution to simplify management of these pricate cloud solutions? In future would we...
View ArticleRe: Multiple vCenter servers. Is vCloud Director the answer?
You would still require vCenter servers, vCD is an overlay to provide Cloud services
View ArticleRe: vcloud database import ?
DB Backup and restore should be done by the DB Administrator, as there is no garentee that the db extraction will be quiesed in a good state for the purposes of backup and restore. It also doesn't...
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
What is the number you are looking to deploy and do you already have templates created for them?
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
Hi, Let's say I will have to create more then 100 template of diffrent OS's+Third Party application. The OS's are microsoft (XP,7,8, x86 & x64) The deployment is for 2-4 users. Thanks
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
It sounds like you are wanting to do Guest Customizations on each one of these when they are deployed. You can script all of this, and the post functionality, by using the PowerCLI modules provided at...
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
You can also use these scripting processes to capture vApps to the catalogs as Templates.
View ArticleRe: The operation failed because no suitable resource was found
First off NEVER change anything in vCenter that vCD controls. It can really mess up your environment. I made that mistake when testing vCD 1.0 and 1.5 to try and match some things we were doing in Lab...
View ArticlevCD 5.1.1, Storage DRS, VM maxing out NFS datastore.
We've been doing some testing with vCloud Director 5.1.1, with vSphere 5.1 and Storage DRS.We have a Datastore Cluster consisting of 3 x 500GB NFS volumes, making 1.5TB in the cluster. We have Fast...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cloud Director pre-sales question
Hi We need to move to VMware from Hyper-V, specifically because VMware supports the OpenGL 2.1 video standard. I have read a lot on VMware and have received some great assistance from them, but I have...
View ArticleRe: vCD 5.1.1, Storage DRS, VM maxing out NFS datastore.
I have this discussion internally... and I guess for vCloud Director when you create a Datastore Cluster make sure to change the default affinity rules! That way Storage DRS can move disks around...
View ArticleCan't start vApp.Invalid value '' specified for property...
I have deployed win7 VM in vcloud director using win7 template. I cant able to start this machine. Im getting this error: Unable to start vApp "vApp_test1". - nullvCenter Server task (moref:...
View ArticleRe: Can't start vApp.Invalid value '' specified for property...
What version of VCD are you running with? I believe "vCloud_CustomizationInfo" is responsible for carrying pre-/post-customization script. Seems like VC "reconfigure" task fails and that error might...
View Article