SDRS with linked clones and storage clustering
Hello, we upgraded our infrastructure to vcloud director 5.5, backed by vCenter 5.5.storage-wise, we have a storage cluster (in vCenter) with 4 datastores. To save storage space, most of the machines...
View ArticlevCD vm console - clipboard
Hi All Is there a way to configure vCD to place the Copy (CTRL C) context into the PC clipboard and also take CTRL V from the PC clipboard ?(as Remote Desktop does) Not being able to cut and paste...
View ArticleMultiple Storage Tiers attached to each VM.
We are running vCloud Director 5.1.2 currently and it seems fine for our small customers with little sophistication within their VM deployments. Now we are struggling with our larger customers that...
View ArticleFailure after upgrade to vCloud 5.5
I upgraded my test environment to vCloud 5.5 and am getting the following issue. The vCloud upgrade finished successfully, but when it attempts to connect to vCenter (5.1), it results in the following...
View Articletraining in 5.5
Hi All, When VMWare will start the training on vSphere 5.5 and vCloud Director 5.5 ? I am currently a VCP5 DCV and wnat to VCP Cloud of 5.1 or 5.5. Are there any chances that VCP Cloud 5.5 will have...
View ArticlevCloud SSO with a 3rd party identity provider ?
I have read that vCloud can be linked to vCenter where vCenter becomes the identity provider and vCloud obtains a SAML token from it for SSO. I would like to use vCloud with a 3rd party identity...
View ArticleBest Way
VCD 5.1, do not use Edge! Greeting, I have one environment, there are 8 vms there, each vm have 2 separated Networks, they donot need connect to another network, donot need to connect to internet. and...
View ArticleNetwork Pool
VCD 5.1 Greeting, This is Newbie. in vcenter I did create a new Distributed Port Group called "vlan2001" . VLAN: 2001.in Vcloud Director, (1) I did create a new network Pools "vsphere port group...
View ArticlevCD and LDAP Groups in v5.1.1
I have a customer who wants to use AD groups for vCloud Director authentication, as in their private cloud they have specific OUs for Organisational LDAP lookups. Obviously, users cannot be members of...
View ArticlevCloud Template for Auto-scaling applications
Hi, I currently deploy an auto-scaling app on Amazon AWS. I use their CloudFormation templates to define my app including the auto-scaling group. With VMWare I have been able to define by application...
View ArticleEditing vApp templates?
So a newcomer to vCD (a bit too late, evidently). I have spun up an environment to play around with in a test environment. I have everything set up, and I'm now at the point where I want to define /...
View Articlehow to setup vlan without vshield in VCD
Greeting, I am a newbie in VCD. I have a question here. how can I setup 3 VLANs ( say, vLan 100, 200 and 300. already existing in the physical network) in VCD for 3 vApps (each take one). The ideas is...
View ArticleVCD 5.5 Problem adding vApp from OVF
Greetings,I have a new environment with VCD 5.5, vcloud director manager is addressed with privates ip addresses and mapped with a 1 to 1 NAT with public ip addresses (web and console proxy).When I try...
View ArticleChanging VM Memory Value Limitation
Hello all, We're using vCloud Director 5.1.2 and I noticed that user accounts (limited to console access and changing CPU/RAM) can only change the memory of a VM to specific values i.e. 1GB, 2GB, 4GB,...
View ArticlevCloud 1.5 vcdni change VLAN
All, I have a vCDNI network pool that is assigned a vlan ID that is in conflict with a reserved ID on the nexus OS, is there a way to change the ID associated with this Pool with out having to...
View ArticlevCD 5.5. Upgrade
Hi As anyone done this upgrade and can share the experiance of how easy it is and the gotchyas ? Also what order can the upgrade be done in, does it need to be all on the same day ? ,e.g.Upgrade...
View ArticlePromiscuous Mode network with vCloud
We have many vApps we would like to create that will require Promiscuous Mode to be enabled on one or more networks in our vApp. How in vCloud do you setup a vAppNetwork in a vApp template that will...
View ArticleInconsistent Behavior using REST API to PUT NetworkConnectionSection results...
When using the vCloud Director REST API to customize CentOS to add a 2nd NIC and identifying it as primary, the FQDN (hostname –f) ends up being incorrect (about one out of 10 times). This is due to...
View ArticleNeed help with nat and fence labmanager to vcloud migration
I am trying to get nat to work in Vcloud director to replace my labmanager environment. I have several apps that cannot have the IP's changed and need multiple copies of them running at the same time....
View ArticlevCloud Director quarantine does not work
Hi,i'm having problem to activate the vCloud Director (vCD) quarantine function. I'm running the vCD version 5.1.2 and i have mark the checkbox "Enable upload quarantine with a timeout of xxxxx...
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