vCloud 5.1 and change the storage allocation
In vCloud 5.1 i cant see a way of changing the storage allocated on a Organization VDC any one know if this is possible? I am sure you could do this the previous version. Thanks in advance
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View ArticleBug in vCloud Director 5.1.1 and 5.1 with vCDNI NetPools
Hi, We have after lots of trial an error, discovered a bug in vCloud Director 5.1 and 5.1.1. It relates to vCDNI Pools and connectivity. We re-created and experienced the bug both times in a vCD manual...
View ArticlevCloud Director 5.1 Appliance not working in Workstation 9
Hi all, looks like the new vCloud Director Appliance isn't working in Workstation 9. Or at least NOT out of the box. (see attached picture) Anyone any idea?
View ArticlePrivate(VMware)Public workload migration?
Hi,We are interested in proof of concepting (PoC'ing !) hybrid cloud functionality.One of the key aspects for us would be the ability to import and export VMs (aka workload migration) btw our private...
View ArticleSetting boot order for a VM through BIOS in vCD
So, let me preface this with the fact that I know one could set the boot order throught he VMX file, or increase the boot delay on the BIOS to get access to a VM's boot order through the console...
View ArticleHow to delete stuck VMs / vApp
Hi I had a storage disruption today on my vCloud environment. Storage guy incedentally connected the datastores to the wrong host and my ESXi hosts lost their storage for about 10min. Enough though to...
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How can I change the password policy in catalog template
In the catalog template, I can not change the password policy But, I can change the password policy of the vm in vapp Now, I want to change the password policy of the vm in the catalog template. so...
View ArticleStorage for initial basic template - best practice
Morning All, Really could do with some input. I'm working on planning a long term plan to build out a cloud platform and to gradually move form dev ->prod tier 3 -> 2 -> 1 etc. I want to start...
View ArticleCannot upload ISOs to VCD 5.1
I am getting the error: file:/C:/Temp/vmware-esx-drivers-net-be2net_400.2.104.277.3-1vmw.2.17.249663.416102.isoError: Could not create remote resource in VDC at URL:...
View ArticleVMs in vCloud cannot communicate if they are in different ESX host
Hi all, Currently I have do a simulation for VCD in my company lab. I just found out some issue in this simulation. Hope anyone can advice on this. Thank you. Senario:1. Create a External Network with...
View ArticlevCloud Director (eval version) Application page is not getting launched
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Hello, I have made a template out of classic CentOS 6.3 destribution. When I say classic I mean a plain install, without any extra configuration made.After I provision an instance out of this template...
View Articlevcd 5.1 routing between vdc-org-network
Hello, I would like to route between two vapps from two differente vdc organization network. I found information on the vcloud 5.1 admin guide but it is not very clear about vdc organization network's...
View ArticleSales Cloud Clones
Hey all, So ive been doing a lot of reading here and on some websites and im still a little fuzzy on the concepts. Basically we want to create around 50-100 clones of windows server 2008 with the same...
View ArticleMAC address to VM Allocation via vCloud Director
We already had few clients with VMs before we started using vCloud Director.These clients have some static public IPs which can't be changed and have to be used.But when creating vDCs for each of these...
View ArticleDeleting vApp - get "No Access to entity"
Trying to delete a vApp - receive a small error message box Which says; No Access to Entity 'vApp-name'(com.vmware.vcloud.entity.vapp:'vApp identifier number') I've attached a screen shot of the error...
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We have a vCloud Director 1.5.1 install, looking to run the upgrade but we have an error I'd like to resolve first. In one of our organizations when I go to the Users tab under Administration/Users I...
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Hi, I have a vCloud environment which consists of two vCD cells and one vCenter server, which houses all of my cloud resources. The two vCD cells are in a cluster. Looking at the vCloud Architectural...
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