Problem Creating Provider vDC in vCloud 5.1 Evaluation Guide's path
I'm folling the vCloud 5.1 Evaluation Guide. Everything seems to be going well, but when I try to create my first provider vDC, I have problems. At the vCD level, I'm just told the operation has...
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Thanks guys, no joy yet using supplied info, will post back if i can find a solution.
View ArticleRe: vCD - How to mount a NFS for transfer area
Thanks guys, Strange, i did a post earlier in the day and it is not here... The guides did not help. I found a ref to enabling nfs logging but could not find the log file !! I resolved this in the end,...
View ArticleAdding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
Hello all, we are experiencing a weird behaviour in one of our customers vApps. It is not possible to add a new disk to an existing vm or to create a new vm.The task fails with error "The operation...
View ArticlevCD 5.1.2 - How can we suspend all running vApps using the API or a command?
I can iterate through a list of deployed vApps, but is there a better way? We need to suspend all running vApps before kicking off a backup using SAN snapshots. Is there an internal API doc available,...
View ArticleRe: vCD 5.1.2 - How can we suspend all running vApps using the API or a command?
plenty o documents here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/developer/forums/vcloudapi However, I do not recall a mass "suspend" or power off for vCloud Director.
View ArticleRe: Adding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
please ensure all esx hosts are enabled and all datastore in the profile are enabled. what version of vCloud Director are you on? There were some changes in the placement system going through each...
View ArticleRe: Adding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
All hosts are enabled, all datatstores too. In that case, there is only one datastore in the datastore Cluster. The problem is "new", it did work before For that vapp We are on 5.1.1. We are planning...
View ArticleRe: vCD 5.1.2 - How can we suspend all running vApps using the API or a command?
Thanks for your response, but I was looking for something like Lab Manager 4.0 Internal APIs. LM used to have ManagedServerPerformAction, action 3 for Undeploy all VMs for a host.
View ArticleRe: vCD 5.1.2 - How can we suspend all running vApps using the API or a command?
I don't think that's an option in vCloud Director's website, nor API. IN Lab Manager undeploy meant something special .. power off and remove from inventory. vCloud Director doesn't do that, since all...
View ArticleRe: Adding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
Can you post logs? How much free space is on each datastore in the datastore cluster, and specifically the one where the VM is currently located? A cluster is just an abstraction to vCLoud ... it'll...
View ArticleRe: Adding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
Thanks for the hint, there are 800 Gb available and i try to add a Disk of 40Gb. That should be sufficient. And don't forget - it Works in another vapp on the Same datastore
View ArticleRe: vCD 5.1.2 - How can we suspend all running vApps using the API or a command?
In vApp Workflows under "vApp Power Workflows", there is a Workflow named "Undeploy a vApp" : Stops or suspends a vApp and frees the resources reserved for the vApp. Do you know what resources are...
View ArticleRe: vCD 5.1.2 - How can we suspend all running vApps using the API or a command?
Here is my understanding ... Straight Suspend does not free the reservations .... Suspend needs to keep the reservations there so you can ensure a resume succeeds. this is just for CPU/MB reservations...
View ArticleRe: Adding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
what is the sum of all other disks on the VM?
View ArticleRe: Problem Creating Provider vDC in vCloud 5.1 Evaluation Guide's path
the ESXi host is not powered down ... the host is put into maintenance mode. In an ideal world, you would have vCenter/vShield in a different cluster than your vCloud deployed VMs. For this to happen,...
View ArticleRe: Problem Creating Provider vDC in vCloud 5.1 Evaluation Guide's path
THanks. Couple of questions. In an ideal world, you would have vCenter/vShield in a different cluster than your vCloud deployed VMs. I've heard this before, but note that the documentation for the...
View ArticleRe: Problem Creating Provider vDC in vCloud 5.1 Evaluation Guide's path
"i've heard this before, but note that the documentation for the evaluation set up clearly shows the vShield Manager in the resource cluster, as opposed to the management cluster. Is this a legacy...
View ArticleRe: Adding disks to VM or creating new VM in one vApp fails
3 Disks, in sum around 750gb. which Logs do you Need ?
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