Hi,
I haven't found any documentation or known issues which states this but after upgrading my dev environment to 5.1.3 I am unable to upgrade to 5.5.0 . The bin/rpm installs as expected but the database upgrade will not complete as "Incorrect database version. Upgrade from version "2.1.8" is not supported."
Any ideas on when a recompile of 5.5. will be released as our dev platform is now offline!
Thanks,
Kev
Hi all,
I have a question I understand how linked clones work. If I created a template from scratch once completed it had a chain length of 1. I then created a vm from the template to my cloud. After testing it and confirming it work ok, I deleted the Guest. I went back to check the template and if had a chain length of 2. Shouldn't this have reverted back to 1 after I removed the guest???
I am running VCD Version 5.1.2.1068441.
I guess I am thinking I might have to consolidate again to remove the old guest all together?? It would seem strange if I do
Thanks
Richg
I've been doing upgrades to various environments over the past few months and all has gone well, but I'm curious about something. Until now, I have never used the cell maintenance message because it wasn't really very descriptive and I didn't see any real benefit in using it. The past few times I have tried giving it a shot and it does it's job but I'm curious if anyone else seems a little confused about how it is documented.
VMware KB: Upgrading to VMware vCloud Director 5.5.x best practices
If you walk through the upgrade documentation above the first thing that the documentation mentions is the cell maintenance message. It links you to the specific information about how to execute the cell maintenance message here. The documentation wants you to stop the cell services and then turn on the maintenance message, which is just a few easy commands. The issue comes in with the next step because you need to quiesce the cell using the cell-management-tool. My understanding is that in order for the cell-management-tool to work the cell has to be running. Since we have stopped the cell services in the first step we will get the following error:
Unable to connect to cell: Failed to retrieve RMIServer stub: javax.naming.ServiceUnavailableException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: A.B.C.D; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused]
The first time I saw this I was a little worried, but then I realized what was going on and reboot/restarted the cell services and moved on by simply quiescing the cells and essentially skipping the first step about displaying a maintenance message. Does this seem counter intuitive to anyone else or am I missing something?
I have created One Organization namely “AmbarCloud” in vCloud director 5.1.
Consider Organization URL is : https://xyzcorp.asia-cloud.com/cloud/org/AmbarCloud/
Requirement: Provide access to Third party users ( Org Amin access ) so they can access the Organization over internet can do their work. I am going to create Local User for Org which are having Role of Org Admin access and provide the same credentials to the Third party users.
My Important requirement is that , I want to ensure that traffic between “VCloud Organization- AmbarCloud” & Destination is Public Internet must be secured and encrypted
Source : https://xyzcorp.asia-cloud.com/cloud/org/AmbarCloud/
Destination : Third Party user those who are going to login via Remote network from Public internet
How can I fulfilled above requirement ?
Whwn i try to create a vApp that is having multiple VM's, the vApp is not get starting up.Its showing one error. "failed to power on VM.
Operation could not be performed because there are insufficient resources.Host does not have sufficient memory resources to satify the reservation."
How can i allocate memory?.i have attached the screenshots of both error and the memory allocations that i have in my set up.
I am trying to deploy vApp from vFAbric App Director.There also i am getting the same errror.This is due to the vCD memory allocation.
Attachments:
vCDError.png(vCD error that i am getting)
providerVDCmemory.png(vCD memory allocation)
vFab_error.png(vFabric App Director error while deploying VM's)
Please reply as soon as possible.
Hi there,
i tested with several different OS with no luck 
When i upload a new ISO i click on Upload -> Java security popup -> i click ok -> now i click browse - nothing pops up....
I tested with Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2008R2 - Java is up2date.
All popup blockers are disabled.
Tested with IE8,9,10 and Firefox 26.
Please give me a hint.
Thank you
Alex
Hi All,
I want the user who creating vApp in the vCloud director should automatically add in to the local admin of the VM. How can i achieve it.
I don't have problem in using vCenter Orchestrator or power cli. Please suggest....
Regards,
Karthi
In our environment, we have implemented VM's quota for the user. Let say 10 VM's per user. When VM's get expired it is transferred to "Expired Items" in My Cloud. Even after VM moves to Expired Items, it still consumes the user Quota.
Now my concern is to find the Owner name of the Expired VM's. Is there any way wherein i can find the Expired VMs owner name. Some working script or some other method.
I select guest customization, select new password, join domain, etc and power on and force guest customization but it never runs. This is a new install of vCD 5.1.3. Am I missing some files or something for W2k8R2?
We are trying to debug a number of issues with deployment of vApps and I would like to dump all the details. Ideally I could diff a working catalog vapp vs a broken one to see how they differ. How are the vApp details stored? I'm not above spelunking into the vcloud DB to extract this info. We suspect that exporting them as a .ovf and looking at that detail does not give us all the detail we need. Thanks, Blake
Hello to everybody....
I'm opening this new discussion cause I need assistance in understanding how vm consolidation work in vCloud.
I'm coming from a Lab manager world where linked clone, configuration and Library concepts were clear for me... but now I'm a bit confused on vCloud.
Just a quick explanation of how I use vCloud.
We've a vm (Red hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Sybase DBMS installed on it, size of the all the vmdks is 1,2 TB) that has its own vAPP (that is called Catalog vAPP). We create a vCloud Template of this vAPP and we use this template to deploy multiple copies of this vAPP on other Organizations, using linked clone feature.
Every nights the Sybase virtual machine inside the Catalog vAPP has database datas updated from a production a system thru database load feature (J-1) and every morning we deploy this vm into another template (named with the today date) and deployed again into the Organizations mentioned before.
On Saturday (chain lenght 6), we delete all the templates created during week and delete all the vAPPs except the Catalog one. After that we consolidate it (Catalog vAPP). This process used to last 10 hours on Lab Manager environment but on vCloud env It takes (the consolidation of Catalog vAPP) days (last time 96 hours).
my question is: How the consolidation process works?
How is It changed since Lab Manager?
JFI: This vCloud farm (composed by 6x ESXi Host, each one with 2x Intel X5675 Cpu and 96 GB of RAM) is connected thru Fiber channel redundant connection to a dedicated EMC NS480 Storage using a datastore composed by several META-LUNs. Taking a look at the EMC Analyzer software, there is no evidence of bottleneck on Storage Side and, with Cisco software, even of Fiber channel switches too.
We are setting up a small private cloud. I would like to speak further about my setup and was hoping you could give a little guidance on design. We are planning on using ESX with VCloud Director. Basically we are going to have the following equipment:
(3) Dell PowerEdge R620 Servers (((x2) Intel Xeon E5-2690 2.9GHz, 256GB Memory w/ (x4) Brocade 10GbE)
(1) Dell Equallogic PS 6110X 28.8TB – Primary VM Hosting
(1) Dell Equallogic PS6110E 96TB – Backup Storage
(2) Brocade VDX 6740-24 Port Ethernet Fabric Switches – For iSCSI Connectivity / Collapsed Core
(2) Dell SonicWALL NSA 4600 Firewalls - 1 Primary / 1 HA
Basically, we are a VMWare VSPP which is VCloud Service Provider and we are going to be using the VCloud Service Provider Bundle Premier which includes:
VMware vCloud® Service Provider Bundle - Premier: The VMware vCloud Premier Service Provider Bundle provides the key components required to deliver an enterprise-class, Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Components include: vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCenter Server Standard, vCloud Director (which includes vShield for vCloud Director), vCenter Chargeback, vCloud Networking and Security, vCloud Connector, vCloud Usage Meter and Production Support.
Our primary goal is to create a small private cloud which will enable us to host server VM’s for our customers and some new clients, host VDI, and act as an offsite Veeam replication target. What I would like to discuss with you is how you feel using the equipment that we are starting off with and the software licensing options available to us that I mentioned above, what you feel would be the best way for us to architect our setup and network and VCloud.
We have a pretty good idea for right now but we would love to see what peoples thoughts are.
Thanks!
I cannot get the api to respond to restful calls. Is it broken in vCD 5.1.3?
I get
using the same commands I use in my other instance of 1.5
Within vCD, while in the 'MyCloud' tab...when I select the 'VMs' link in the left have navigation, this will display all my VMs. However, it does not display the External IP for each VM. Our vApps are NAT/routed, so they have Ext IPs. Is this something wrong with vCD or our configuration?
Thanks
Hi,
when I am trying to create an Edge Gateway in vCloud Director 5.5 the following error is displayed:
"Could not locate resource pool against which to perform operation. Please contact your vCloud Director administrator."
In the log files of the vCD I can find an additional error:
"VC did not return a datacenter for resource pool"
Does anyone know this issue and how I can resolve it?
Our lease expiration notification emails are not included a hyperlink to vCD (to renew the lease). Our Lab Manager lease expiration notificaiton emails do have a link to the renew the lease.
Is this a know regression in vCD? Or possible a configuration issue with out vCD setup?
Thanks
posted in wrong section
Solaris Cluster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is supported in VMware Private Cloud | ESXi 5.5 environment?
I have started to notice in vCenter, a few "VMname-copy-UUID" folders that have been created by vCloud 5.5. Has anyone else noticed this and knows the exact operation that might cause this behavior? Thanks!
It has been proposed that we subject our vCD environment to vulnerability scanning with WebInspect. This sounds like a very bad idea to me. Has anyone had any experience along these lines? I'm particularly interested in learning about the risks and how to avoid or mitigate them.
Thanks!
