Uploading OVF - Waiting for disks
Hello,I'm trying to upload an OVF vApp template in catalog, reached 100% the VM is in suspended state, and vApp shows "waiting for disks".I expelled any CD from the original VM.Any idea?Thank you very...
View ArticlevCloud Director cell Maintenance Message
I am currently building out a new vCloud director to replace our old labmanager environment and I was very pleased to see that you can put the cell into a maintenance mode while doing work on the back...
View ArticleRandom Reconnects to vCenter
Hey guys, I am curious if anyone else has run into this or not. I have noticed that I will get an email notification on random nights around 3:00am to 4:00am stating: In one environment:vCloud...
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Manually deleting vcloud-director network objects from ms-sql database
Hey guys, I have written a blog post on how to manually delete the entries in vcloud ms-sql database when you run into issues like not being able to delete orphaned objects on vCloud Director. Do take...
View ArticlevApp Fencing (unchecked all)
One of our developers asked me the other day if he unselected, both NAT and Firewall...is there still any other fencing functionality? I told him that I was pretty sure that, if unselecting all...
View ArticleCannot to upload large (over 4GB size) ISO images to my catalog media on...
Hi, I have issue about upload ISO file. I had to change any browser (IE, Chrome, FF) both x86 & x64 also install JRE x86 & x64 already.My transfer progress stuck at 12% after approx 15-30...
View ArticleCannot delete vDC with shared Org Network
Hello, it is not possible to delete an vDC as long as as org Networks do exist. That makes sense, but is problematic if the network is shared between vDCs.If the network is beeing deleted it gets...
View ArticleAllocation Pool vCPU and memory reservations not as expeccted in vCD 5.1
Hi,We've been working with vCD 5.1 (5.1.1.868405, Appliance version), and have discovered apparent discrepancies between expect behavior of Allocation Pool vCPU and memory reservations / limits /...
View Article'This operation is denied' error while composing Vapp.
Hi,I'm using C# SDK for vCloud Director 5.1 (with ASP.Net) and getting an error while composing Vapp (by providing VM reference from public catalog) and I've no idea why I'm getting this error. Any...
View ArticleSub tenancy
Are there any plans to introduce sub-tenants (tenants of a tenant) in vCloud Director?
View ArticleDo I need to install a license key in vCenter to get NAT and firewall...
Hi everyone, Do I need to install a license key in vCenter to get NAT and firewall working? If so, where do I go to get this key? Thanks! -Chris
View ArticlevCloud and wildcard cert
Hi all. So, I have to use wildcard cert from external CA in my vCloud. 1) I have done wildcard certificate from godaddy and use it in my corp web portal.2) I read the...
View ArticleHow do I find the id of the vappTemplate given a vm object or vappTemplate?
Hi, In VCD, I use a vappTemplate in order to create a VM. Now after creating the VM, I need to retrieve the id of the vappTemplate from which this VM was created. But looking at the vm object (in the...
View ArticleModifying virtual hardware while deploying a vApp
Hi, is it possible to modify virtual hardware at the time of deploying a vApp in vCloud Director or is it necessary another tool? I mean, what I would like is to deploy a virtual machine from my...
View ArticleInstallation of vCloud Director
Hello, I'm trying to install vCloud Director from a pre-built appliance I downloaded from VMWare pages (vCloud-Director-VA-T2-5.1.2.0-1069180_OVF10.ova).When I deploy it using vCenter on an ESXi host...
View ArticlevApp VM - Get vApp owner within a VM using VMToolsd or similar?
Hi Guys,Is there a simple way to read out the owner of a vApp from a guest VM as displayed in the vCD WebGUI so I can use this information to display it on a BGInfo page? So far I only found that I...
View ArticleBlog Post - VMware's opportunity to drive OpenStack
Over the past few months I've been pondering VMware's ultimate play with OpenStack. My thinking is that VMware will leverage OpenStack to battle AWS. OpenStack powered by VMware | Virtualized Geek
View ArticleProvider highest supported hardware version problem
Hi!I've installed new vCloud Director 5.1.2 on RHEL 6.4 My virtual infrastructure on ESXi 5.1 (1117900), vCenter 5.1 (1064983) All looks fine, but when I create first provider I can't choose hardware...
View ArticleReports on VCD provisioned VMs
i have a use case of generating reports on VCD provisioned vms which should list out the time taken to provision a vm from VCD. we have VCD 1,5 Environment with SQL 2008. can some one suggest a tool...
View ArticleSelf service website? VCIM? VCAC?
Hi everyone, I'm struggling to find a clear answer from the VMware website. I'm trying to determine which software to use to create a self signup website for customers of a cloud service provider....
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