Identify and move linked clones from one Datastore to another (VCD 5.5)
Hi, I'm facing an interesting problem with my environment. Problem is that I more or less inherited it from a successor without getting any documentation at all. On top of that old hardware and old...
View ArticleTemplate Usage
Is there a way to track template usage or statistics? As more and more templates the storage and maintenence increases. For example it would be beneficial to be able to know which templates are never...
View ArticlevCloud Connector 2.6 expand disk
Kia Ora. I have deployed 2x vCloud COnnector nodes and followed the instructions for Allocating storage in vsphere to both. One works, one doesn't. The difference between the 2x nodes is the working...
View ArticleHow to tell when a VApp is safely stored in a catalog
I was wondering when you are programmatically adding a VApp from the cloud to a Catalog, if it's possible to know when it is done? Sometime the code down below: CatalogItemType catalogItemType =...
View ArticleWindows VMs Won't Sysprep on Deployment
I have a vCloud Director 5.5 instance set up with one cell. I've created a catalog which holds several vApps, each containing a single Windows VM. The versions of Windows captured in these vApp...
View ArticleVMware vCloud Director for Lab Environment Management
Trying to setup a vCloud Director Environment to manage our labs. We are running on the following platform 4 hosts running on BL460c HP blades in a HP c3000 chassis2 CPU's in each with 6 cores per...
View ArticleCannot launch the web page after completeing the setup
I have a problem with running vCD 5.5.2 on my home lab. I made sure all prerequisites are met. The cell was initialized successfully with no single error and I am still not able to launch the web page,...
View ArticleDeploying Templates for tenants
Hello, we are building a small vcloud director environment for our departments.Every department should be a own organization. Whats the best way to create templates for vms (vapps) with guest...
View ArticleVMware roadmap on VM's metrics
Hey everyone,Is there any way to monitor such VM's metrics using vCD API only- network bandwidth- disk IOpsDoes anyone know the actual VMware roadmap on VM's metrics?Thanks!
View ArticleWhen uploading Media files: 'Failed to load the vCloud installations SSL...
Running vCloud Director 5.6. When I am trying to upload an Image I get this error: Failed to load the vCloud installations SSL thumbprint due to missing external certificates. Using selg signed certs....
View ArticleWhat is error "Error calling method on NPObject!" ?
I use API get mks link and submit ticket open VMRC console but console doesn't run and get this error "Error calling method on NPObject!"How i can fix?
View ArticleCant deploy Edge gateway." Deployment of edge gateway Edge gateway failed."
vCloud Director 6.5.3 with latest vShield Edge Manager. Suddenly I could no longer create Edges Gateway in vCloud Director. I am getting this weird error. [ 6905380e-de02-4fad-8232-d9395328353c ]...
View ArticlevCloud suite enterprise not licensing vCenter Operations Manager properly?
I'm running a vCloud Director Suite Enterprise 5.5 licensed cluster that is hosting our vCOPS vApp. When I license vCOPS, it activates it as the Advanced Version. According to this document...
View ArticleUnregister VMs from vCloud Director?
Hi We have a few VMs which we have imported into vCloud Director and now we want to remove them from vCloud Director. Unregister them but not delete them because we want to move them to a different...
View ArticleStorage policy limit per PVDC
Hi,I have a problem adding storage profile to existing Provider VDC in vCloud Director 5.1.2. Storage profile is recognized but after it's added to PVDC it's not visible in the organizations. Also...
View ArticleError Connecting to vCenter Server
After a sudden lost of power I got the following error while trying to connect to the vcenter server: Internal Server Error 2013-05-15 17:47:44,772 | DEBUG |...
View ArticleAny experience on using the latest release of vCloud Director 5.6 for Service...
Hi all, Any experience on using vCloud Director 5.6 for Service Providers. I just installed it but I found that the current vCloud Director license key can not use it. Any people have tried the...
View ArticleAutomation of static IP assignment
We have have a vcloud test environment and are wanting tohave self-provisioning. The ideal scenario is that we would be able to let themselect from the catalog a template to deploy but would like to...
View Articlevcloud virtual machine second public ip
hello,we are using vcloud 5.5we created many vm with external network , i can't find a way to assing a second public ip address to primary nic of the vm taking it from my ip pool so i can configure an...
View Articlepinning vApp on single host during deploy, soft/hard affinity for vAPP per...
Hey everyone, this might sound counterproductive at first, but what I;m trying to achieve is that all VMs within a single vAPP end up on the same host during deploy and stay there.What I want to...
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