Abolish 15 character machine name limit on non windows hosts.
VMware loves to sell licenses. Well I can tell you that you are losing business because of the 15 character hostname limit on all operating system flavors of virtual machines. Many linux folk will...
View ArticleDatastore Threshold Defenitions
Over the past two days I have come across some issues that were due to the datastore threshold being reached. Can someone provide me with what functions are disabled when the datastore threshold has...
View ArticleCannot Create vApp - Internal Server Error
When attempting to deploy a vApp, customer is receiving the unhelpful error of "Internal Server Error". I tried bouncing the cell and reconnecting vCenter to vCD. Also there are some posts out there...
View ArticleCannot load URL for vcloud director after installation
Hi All, I am having a problem in accessing the url for my vcloud director. When I try to load the url (http://vcloud_director_ip or http://vcloud_director_ip/cloud), I receive the ssl certificate...
View ArticleAfter vCloud Director install I cannot access the web page for configuration
I know there is a recent simular discussion but I decided to start this one because he can access the page up to the certificate warning but I do not get anything when I try. I did the install/script...
View ArticlevCloud Director host as virtual machine?
Hi I want to try vCloud Director. I have a ESX host, a vCenter Server running on a physical machine. Now i need vShield manager and vCloud Director. Can i install vShield Manager and vCloud Director on...
View ArticlevCloud Director web page not coming
Hi, I installed vCloud Director in my lab. I am able to connect to oracle database successfully from directory server. Once I completes all the configuration of Cloud director is prompts me services...
View Articlewhat is the purpose of vCloud Director exactly
hi all, i working on vmware virtualization for an year and half now, i want to plan learning vCloud, when i was watching videos, i came to know that it is like creating virtual datacenters for the vms...
View ArticlevApp Script on vApp creation
Hi Community,Does anyone know if it is somehow possible to run a script within vCD (5.1.2) which will add certain firewall rules to the vApp Edge Gateway once it is created (Event Based script...
View ArticleStorage Cluster Question
Hi all, This might be a simple one... I have a SDRS cluster configured for vCloud and it's working well. I also have a group of non-clustered datastores also in use by the same vCloud instance. The...
View ArticleOvftool use to vCD - Issues
Context: Trying to import a workstation VM into vCD. When I use the following command line I get. "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool\ovftool.exe" -dm=thin %1...
View ArticleMove VMs from vSphere to vCloud Director VDC on the same cluster
We want to migrate some our existing VMs from our vSphere into our internal vCloud. The vCloud is hosted on the same cluster as the vSphere. My question here is: do I need vCloud Connector to do the...
View ArticlevCloud Datastore Alerts
When I add datastores that are more than 75% full to a vCenter that is hosting provider VDC's I get an alert from vCloud. There is no option to change the threshold in vCloud that I know of unless I...
View ArticleIdentify VM from command line?
Hi all, Does anyone know if it's possible to find the vCloud ID of a VM from the VM itself? We are trying to create a script for vFabric App Director, that allows the user to add a disk to the VM...
View ArticleCreating vCloud Director Lab
I just bought a Dell Server, only one! Is it enough to start architecting the lab?Would two nested ESX architecture work?So the nested steps would be:1. Install ESX5.1 on physical server2. Make two VMs...
View ArticleCannot deploy organization VDC network : VSM response error (10105): Failed...
Using VCD 5.1 When creating a natRouted Org VDC network we randomly get this error with a different dvportgroup-<number> each time.Deleting a re-creating the network seems to work but this issue...
View ArticleDeployment of edge gateway failed in vcd5.1.2a
Deployment of edge gateway gedgegw failed.com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.nsm.error.VsmException: VSM response error (10105): Failed to publish configuration on vShield Edge. The requested object :...
View ArticleCreation of Edge gateway failed in VCD 5.1
Hello,I have the following configuration:VCD 5.1.1VSM 5.1.1Vcenter 5.0 update 1ESXi 5.0 update1 When trying to create an Edge gateway in the VCD GUI, I got the following error: Deployment of edge...
View ArticleSeparate vCenter for vCloud director infrastructure?
My vCloud Director experience is limited to labs and sessions at VMworld. In of the sessions, a VMworld employee stated that you need at least two vCenters. One vCenter would contain all the hosts...
View ArticleConcurrent tasks with vCloud 1.5.1 and vCenter 5.0
Hi guys,I saw recently in the list of recent tasks of the vCenter which backs the vCloud Director 1.5.1, a number of "Suspend VM" tasks that delayed for 5-10 minutes all the other power on/deploy...
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