Howto query the DHCP lease configuration
Hi Is it possible to query the DHCP lease settings of an edge gateway using the vCloud API? If I log into the edge gateway in the vcenter and execute the show service dhcp commandI get the desired...
View ArticleUnable to customize guest opetrating system windows xp
Hi, I'm trying to customize Windows machine after clone using customization script in vCloud5.1, Im getting this error. I have attached my snap shots with error message and log files. please help. My...
View ArticlevCD External Physical network question....
I have been discussing external network provisioning with a small customer, who wants to utilise their network in a particular way to connect their external vCloud networks to the Internet. I'm looking...
View ArticleHowto update the CpuCompatibilitySectionType
Hi Is it possible to update CpuCompatibilitySectionType section of a VM? I triedVM vm = ...;CpuCompatibilitySectionType cpusec = ....;vm.updateSection(cpusec).waitForTask(0); but, I got an errorCaused...
View ArticleRegarding Scaling out using vcloud director
Hi Guys,Imagine i have given an infrastructure(some amounts of compute,storage and networking) to a customer. And he runs out of resources. Is there a way he can add the resources himself? or is there...
View ArticleStarting vCloud Director VMs in vCenter takes 2 minutes
Hello, with my fresh installation of VCD on a vspehre 5.1 cluster I am facing the problem, that starting a VCD vapp VM takes up to 3 minutes in vCenter. If I create a VM in vCenter and start it, it...
View ArticleVMware vmtoolsd documentation
Hi Can you help me to find some documentation which describes the vmtoolsd tool available on the guest VMs.I already found some documentation how to install VMware tools in general. On some forums I...
View ArticleGetting a VM to keep its static IP in Vcloud
Morning all, I'm new to Vcloud, i've been using Lab Manager for a while and am trying to eval Vcloud as a replacement. I've got everything running i believe correctly (not a fan of vsheild!!!!) but...
View ArticleCryptographic Error on vCD Configure
Hi I've just moved from self signed certificates to certificates issued from our internal CA. I've imported the root and issuing certificates, and also imported the certificate responses for HTTP and...
View ArticleUser Credentials Cannot be used for local connections
Hi, I am creating several vms in the same vApp, say 6 vms in a vApp. One of my VM say VM1 has to communicate with the other 5. It attempts to get the systemDrive of the other 5 vms, using the network...
View ArticleHow to add a new disk to reside in a particular datastore in vapp
Hi any advise how this can be achieved within VCD?
View ArticlevCloud resource requests and approval
Dear Folks, Please bear if this is a noob question. But I'm new to vCloud Director. I was going through all the official documentation for deploying and managing VMware vCloud director. But no where I...
View ArticleVM guest customization
Hi How can we determine if the guest customization of the VM has finished? In the VM section of the VAPP there is a flag called needCustomization. This is true by defaultif customization is...
View ArticleAre management clusters and NFS required for vCloud 5.1 installs?
Just starting my vCloud journey and trying to make sense of requirements. Can I install vCloud 5.1.1 on my existing vCenter environment without creating a seperate cluster/vCenter? If so, what are...
View ArticleIs vCloud Director appliance still available for download?
I have been looking for the vCloud Director Appliance and cannot find it? Is it still available for download? -MattG
View ArticleUnable to connect VCD through web application
When calling the login method (with the appropriate username and password strings) from a vCloudClient object, I got the following NullPointerException:java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 and Leasetimes
Hi community I have 2 questions regarding Leasetime in vCloud Director. - when is the lease mail send ? is this configurable ?- is it possible to configure that leasemail not only send to owner of...
View ArticleUndeploy "Partially Running" vApp(s) - how?
I've been Googling and browsing for a fair bit trying to find the answer to this...I can't find anything concrete so here's my question... How the heck do you undeploy a vApp (well, 10 actually) that...
View ArticleDelete Datastores from Provider vDC?
Hello, I currently have 9 - 2TB LUNs attached to a provider vDC that services an Org vDC. I need to remove 3 of these LUNs and give them back (unwillingly). I've cleared them through vMotion in...
View ArticleAdding a Edge-Gateway to an OVDC
Hi, in an organisation I have an isolated org network. Then I went to Edge-Gateway and added a gateway for the OVDC. Now I want to connect the gateway to the Orgnetwork. But how? I canno't find any...
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