Performance Problems with Multiple Cells (5.1.2)?
Whenever I'm using a single cell, I get great performance. But when I fire up my secondary cells, my performance falls off terribly (15 minutes to create a new vApp "shell" or to mount an ISO...Not...
View ArticleRe: vShield 5.0 to 5.1 cant redeploy vShield Edge for upgrading them
DId this ever get resolved? Did you have to submit an SR? If so, how did VMware fix it? Many thanks.
View ArticleRe: Performance Problems with Multiple Cells (5.1.2)?
A few things will cause this for sure - could be others but check these to start: Firewall ports - make sure your cells can talk freely to each other, all ESX hosts, and all vCenters.TimeSync - the...
View ArticleRe: Transfer Storage ISCSI ???
I think NFS is the officially supported transfer space solution. That said we used a shared VMDK in one setup with three cells all accessing it (using a cluster filesystem). The same method should...
View ArticleRe: Transfer Storage ISCSI ???
afaik, NFS is the supported solution and the only solution since vCloud Director released. I'm not sure exactly how well clustering would work with a software iSCSI target, as it would be formatted...
View ArticleRe: vrmc console disconnected
I am not 100% certain as to the cause, but I have also seen this issue, and I ended up with "brute force" troubleshooting: read the logs and try to make anything that I think is "weird" go away. While...
View ArticleRe: Transfer Storage ISCSI ???
Like "IamTHEvilONE" said I would not use ext3/4 if you are going to use iSCSI or shared VMDK solution - you would need to use a cluster filesystem or the cells could step on each other and cause...
View ArticleRe: Is it ok to "Run DRS" from within vCenter? What is the best way to...
Under no circumstances should you EVER disable DRS in a vCloud environment
View ArticleRe: vShield 5.0 to 5.1 cant redeploy vShield Edge for upgrading them
I have seen this error before during a test upgrade - we got it by doing the upgrade a little incorrect -- and it took support to help fix. Here is what we did wrong, hope you don't have the same issue...
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Re: vShield 5.0 to 5.1 cant redeploy vShield Edge for upgrading them
I just fixed it this morning, but my process was a bit different. Well, quite different I rolled back to the snapshot I took of vShield Manager (was on 5.0.1) after vCloud Director upgrade, before...
View ArticleCollecting IP address usage info
Hi All, I have a question regarding IP address usage per each Org in vCloud Director.Looking at the Chargeback Manager, there doesn't seem to be a way to collect info about how many IPs are in use by...
View ArticleRe: Insufficient permissions or datastore has exceeded its file count limit.
Is this datastore an NFS datastore? Make sure that it's writable (try to create a new vmdk on it from vcenter) and the exporting NAS is using no_root_squash.
View ArticleDelete LDAP user / group prevents adding again...
Scenario:1. vCD 5.1.2 (latest patches) with simple LDAP authentication and AD usersimported.2. Change LDAP authentication from Simple to Kerberos. 3. Under Admin / Users: Remove test vCD user...
View ArticleRe: Collecting IP address usage info
I don't recall anything like vcloud having an APi call to get a head count of used IP addresses on a per Org basis. you'd basically have to sweep the entire inventory of each or, then tabulate the IPs...
View ArticleRe: Delete LDAP user / group prevents adding again...
ldap users cannot be purged from the DB if they own objects (vapps, networks, etc). for Kerberos authentication, you typically use the 'userPrincipalName' value of the system (testuser@domain.com) ......
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Just for the record...even under Simple LDAP I used userPrincipalName rather than sAMAccountName. Use userPrincipalName with Simple LDAP and imported users are displayed with just the shortname. With...
View ArticleAdd a OVF to Catalog or Add VM to vApp fails
Hi We have vCloud Director 5.1.1 868405 and Labmanager 4.0.1 1233. I'm in the process of moving LabManager library configurations to vCloud.I have created OVF -files of the 3 VMs in the labmanager...
View ArticlevCloud Integration Manager with vCloud 5.1?
Is there any plans to update vCloud Intergration Manager to support vCloud 5.1 or is there now another product which has same functionality? I noticed that VCIM 1.0.0 doesn't work with vC5.1 (1.5 is...
View ArticleLogin page theme issue
Hi,Im having problem with using a custom css for the login page in vCloud Director. The css does not apply after upload -> apply ->restart browser.I have followed these instructions (Import a...
View ArticleRe: Delete LDAP user / group prevents adding again...
The other constraint is the 'Name in source' ... which for Active Directory = ObjectGUID ... so you need to have that be unique between your users ... so no username & username@domain.com if they...
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