Re: VM 'Move to..." behavior between vApp
Can you please create a VMware Support Request for this Feature Request, and then send me a PM with the Sr number? The more unique SR numbers, the better.
View ArticleRe: When trying to upload ovf file with References Tag, UploadVappTemplate...
If the vCloud Web UI works and you have your public addresses filled in correctly, you'll want to post here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vcloudapi This particular...
View ArticlevCloud vcim-util package (perl scripts for vMA)
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has been able to download the vCloud Integration Manager scripts that are mentioned in this document:...
View ArticleWhere is the best place to locate Media for a vCloud VM?
Hi, I have a single public catalog which contains all of my vApp templates and this works fine for deployment to my many organisations. Today I decided to upload some media files to the same public...
View ArticleWhen are Shadow VMs created?
One of my 4 datastores associated with my vDC is filling up. When do Shadow VMs come in to play to allow my fast provisioned VMs to use my other datastores? Is there a threshold? If so is it...
View ArticleThe manifest of the OVF package is invalid
When attempting to deploy this OVF in vCloud, I get an error that the manifest of the OVF package is invalid. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I have also looked at the OVF in Notepad++ and...
View ArticleRe: When are Shadow VMs created?
Shadow VMs are "parent" disks to a VM deployed. Threshold is set in your system vDC, on the datastores section of manage and monitor. Set the 'Red' zone to some value larger than the amount of free...
View ArticleRe: When are Shadow VMs created?
All datastores are the same size. Most of my catalog vApps started life from a single Linux template, and were then consolidated after creation. In hindsite, I believe the one datastore was used...
View ArticleRe: The manifest of the OVF package is invalid
can you use VMware Converter to put the VM into vCenter? Some older disk formats cannot be parsed correctly after import/deploy. This isn't checked till the upload is complete to the ESXi host doing...
View ArticlevCloud director VMs protected by Trend Deep Security
Hello, There is a necessity to install Trend Deep Security to protect workloads on a vCloud director 5.1 environment. The only gotcha is that a Trend appliance must be installed on every single host...
View ArticleRe: vrmc console disconnected
Please, can somebody help me? I'm evaluating vcloud without using tha VM console....it's very hard.
View ArticleCannot import a VM from vSphere to a vCD catalog
Hi, i try to evaluate the vCloud Director from VMware. Therefore i downloaded the virtual appliance and deploy it. After the initial configuration i created a connection to my vCenter, create a...
View ArticleRe: vCD and LDAP Groups in v5.1.1
Small heart attack this morning, trying to log in to a brand new build and getting this error. The /login.jsp "trick" saved me. Will likely open a ticket, as well, in the meantime, and see if this...
View ArticleRe: vCloud director VMs protected by Trend Deep Security
I have done this two ways (not with this security tool, but other tools). 1. Like you stated - setup 2 resource pools on the cluster, use one for VCD and the other for system load. - This works fine,...
View ArticleRe: Cannot import a VM from vSphere to a vCD catalog
I do not use the appliance but I did find a few information points that might help. Passwords for the appliance: (per a good vmware source at least - not...
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Re: Where is the best place to locate Media for a vCloud VM?
Let me start by saying please let support and your vmware rep know about this. We have been pushing for over 2 years that the media model needs correcting. That all said 1. Media needs to exist in...
View ArticleChange SID - Catalog
I have 2 VMs (Windows 2008 R2) that I need to add as catalogs... In the VMs, I check the "Enable Guest customization" and "Change SID" checkboxs. But when I'm adding them as catalogs, the "Change SID"...
View ArticleRe: vCloud director VMs protected by Trend Deep Security
Thanks, I will probably keep the resource utilization on the cluster to a 80-90 % to account for the anti virus appliances, since they utilize a few resources that would suffice.
View ArticleRe: When are Shadow VMs created?
I've got a quick follow up question on this information. When you say "we will force the linked clone chain to migrate to the next datastore", does that mean the whole chain up to that point is...
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