vcd 5.1 appliance: problem with two nics in same LAN (+solution)
Dear all, Today I had a fight with the all new vcloud director 5.1 appliance. The setup is very common: one vcloud cell with one vcenter. the servers are located in one vlan, the users are located in...
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View ArticlevCD and Chef?
We are instatntiating a Chef vApp that our devs will be able to GIT repos from a central repo. I am trying to figure out how to script the creation of VM's inside of a vApp that the VM only know about...
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I know I can individually look at the properties of each vApp to see the lease details but is there any way within vCloud Director to quickly identify every vAPP and when they will expire?
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I'm noticing that the call to VcloudClient.login(user,pass) take almost exactly 40 seconds for one particular system every time. On a different system, it is done within a second. Any ideas what...
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View ArticleProblem after upgrade vCD from 1.5 to 5.1.1
Hi,I have a big problem with new vCloud Director at my installation. My env:- vCenter Server 5.0- vSphere 5.0- vCloud Director updated from 1.5 to 5.1.1 (latest)- vShield Edge updated from 5.0.0 to...
View ArticleImpossible to create a role that can share a vApp without enabling edit of...
I view this as a bug but before I report it I thought I would pose a question in the forums. Hopefully I missed something very obvious or it is indeed a bug. I am trying to create a role where a user...
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Unable to upload to catalog
Hi community I can’t upload images to catalog on our new Cloud Director 5.1.1 installation. Certificates should be in place and I’ve tried multiple browsers, OS and Java Versions. It simply timeout...
View ArticleHow many machines do I need and can SQL Express be used for vCloud Director
Hi We are "thinking" of purchasing vCloud Suite standard. We are only going to have about 20-40 VMs total on one host for the intended use of testing software applications. Not all VMs will be on at...
View ArticleBug in vCloud Director 5.1.1 and 5.1 with vCDNI NetPools
Hi, We have after lots of trial an error, discovered a bug in vCloud Director 5.1 and 5.1.1. It relates to vCDNI Pools and connectivity. We re-created and experienced the bug both times in a vCD manual...
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Hello, I am having problems with the SID change settings and change password, even applying the changes described in:...
View ArticleAbility to assign different 'storage profiles' to vms within a vapp
Is it possible to specify different storage profiles for different vms in a single vapp during vapp creation? The use case is to assign the db tier a gold profile while the remaining tiers just need...
View Articlecan't connect to vCloud Director VA 5.1 admin portal
I just try to deloy vCloud-Director-VA-T2-5.1.1.0-875157_OVF10.ova on ESXi 5.1 build 799733, then I can ping both two IP address (192.168.17.51/24 192.168.17.52/24), but can't connect to...
View ArticleHow do I export my self signed certificate from keystore?
Hi,I've created a pair of self-signed certificates using the keytool provided with vCloud Director and I now need to export these for use with an F5 load balancer. Can anyone provide a command to me...
View ArticlevCD 1.5 and Console Proxy
I am attempting to get the console proxy setup working correctly but can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The end result is that the client is unable to open the console of a VM in their vDC....
View ArticleAPI to specify 'storage profile' during vapp creation
I'm looking for programmatic way to specify 'storage profile' at vapp and vm-level during vapp creation. I looked at composeVapp and surrounding methods including vapp.xsd file, but in vain. Any help...
View ArticleNetwork Quota reached error
Hello everyone Saw a simliar thread already but it didn't help me. I have a user in vCloud Director that can no longer deploy VM's because of the following error: "The network quota for this...
View ArticleHow to switch storage profiles?
HiThe vCloud environment that I've been building only had vSphere Enterprise licenses and therefore NO storage profiles. In vCloud in the Provider VDC I used the *(any) profile. With the great offer...
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