vCloud 1.5 - VM moving between oVDCs Not Getting New Allocation Model Settings
Hi. We deployed a VM from a template to vApp2 (Reservation Pool) from vApp1 (Pay-As-You-Go 50%/50%). When the deployed VM hits vApp2, we are expected the 50% cpu and ram limits/reservations to be reset...
View ArticlePlease comment on my Org / PvDC / OvDC Design
Hi All,I am working on a new vCD design, and want to gather input since the terminology and best practices can be confusing. Please let me know what you think of this organizational layout. Thanks...
View ArticlevCloud Director Use Case
Hi guys,I have done a fair amount of reading but cannot find definitive answers on what I am looking for and I am hoping an expert in this forum can help. We currently do a significant amount of...
View ArticleRemote Console Proxy connection through a load balancer
Hi, I have a pair of vCD 5.1 cells sitting behind an F5 load balancer. I've created virtual servers inside the load balancer for my https and consoleproxy addressesI've configured the public facing URL...
View ArticleExecute commands on a Vm present inside a Vapp
Hey Guys,I want to execute commands such as curl from within the running VM present inside a VApp and get the results of the command using api calls. The solutions that I found was either through using...
View ArticlevCD 5.1 - Filter or disable alarm e-mails - How?
Since setting up vCloud Director 5.1 and configuring SMTP, I receive incessant datastore usage warning e-mails. I still want to receive e-mails for vCenter disconnects, lease expirations, etc. How...
View ArticleAdjustment of Catalog vApps in vCD
Hi My context is coming from being a Lab Manager user. Under Lab Manger, you could deploy a template, update defintions etc on it, then shut it down, undeploy it and republish it Then new linked...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 issue
Hi,I have installed vcloud director 5.1 on centos 6.0 64Bit OS, successfully installed wildcard SSL but the URL shows blank screen. I am not sure what I am missing, java version on the server is...
View ArticleDuplicate VMs after move between vDCs
Hello all, I'm a bit of a newbie with vCloud Director so maybe this is dumb question. The environment is vCloud Director 1.5. We had 7 VMs were in an Organization vDC called, for arguments sake,...
View ArticleOVF Validation Fail
I am attempting to deploy a vApp for a customer into their catalog and getting a bit of an odd error. Has anyone seen this one before? Operation: Processed descriptor of Virtual Application Template....
View ArticlevCD appliance unable to connect to database
We have just upgraded our vmware vcloud environment: vCloud Director 1.5.1, vCenter 5.1, vShield 5.1 and ESXi 5.1 hostsThe issue happened after restarting the vClould Director Appliance when web UI...
View ArticleIssue accessing VCD 5.1 using public address
My internal FQDN for my VCD 5.1 cell (which is the appliance version) is vcd.domain.local. My VCD public URL: is http://demo.domain.co.uk When accessing VCD portal internally I have no issues....
View Articlechange SID with sysprep
Vcloud director 5.1 with win2k3 sysprep correctly installed. When I deploy a new vapp with a 2k3 VM, If I ask to customize the guest OS it works fine: it change the admin password, the computer name...
View ArticlevCD - Configure org VDC Networks
Hi There,I have an Organization Admin account to my organization virtual data center. I want to to change the DHCP configuration for the network. When I log in to vCD, select my organization network,...
View ArticlevApp templates upload redirects to oracle
When i try to upload to catalog, director re-directs me to Oracle for java. I've downloaded version 6 and version 7 of JRE and setup environmnet variables on my windows 7 box. What gives, what have i...
View Articlevrmc console disconnected
I've correctly installed the VRMC plugin on my I.E. 8 browser. When I try to open the console of a VM from the vcloud director 5.1 web gui, the browser opens a new windows , I see the VRMC console in...
View ArticleDHCP enabled by default for Org VDC Network
Hi, I am using Vcloud Director 5.1 appliance. When i create an Org VDC Network(isolated), a vshield edge vm gets deployed and later disabling the DHCP services on this Org VDC Networks, the vshield...
View ArticleVM 'Move to..." behavior between vApp
Greetings All, I'm running into an issue that I don't know whether it is by design or simply a bug and I hope somebody has an answer to this or point me to the documention/articles that describes this...
View Articlevcloud director physical or vm
I am trying to setup vcd for private cloud use. should i use a physical machine and insall centos on it or is it ok to use a vm? is physical recommended? currently i only have one production cluster...
View ArticleDuplicate Hosts in vCloud Director
Hello, Not realizing a host was in vCloud Director I removed it from it's vSphere cluster, disconnected it and removed it from vCenter to rename. Having renamed the host I added it back to its original...
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