As vcloud director 9.5 is the last iteration to support MS SQL we decided to migrate the database to Postgres Here are the instructions to migrate the database Pre-requisites 1) Snapshot all Cells 2) Snapshot MSSQL DB 3) Backup MSSQL DB Procedure: 4) Shutdown all cells service vmware-vcd stop 5) On Read More…
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Configure RabbitMQ for vCloud Director 9
In this example we will be using the Web interface for configuration. 1. Login via http:\\{IP}:15672 to with administrator credentials 2. When logged in. Click Exchanges tab -> Add a new exchange -> {Enter details like below} 2. Create user Select Admin tab -> {Enter credentials like below) -> Add user When created Read More…
Install RabbitMQ for vCloud Director 9
Here are the step-by-step instructions to install RabbitMQ. This install will be used for a vCloud Director 9.1 installation. Desired versions: Rabbit MQ : 3.7.7 Erlang: 20.1.7.1 (>19.3 is required for Rabbit MQ 3.7.7) 1. Install EPEL yum -y install epel-release 2. Create Erlang Repo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rabbitmq-erlang.repo Inset this Read More…
VCD: A General System Error Occurred: Weak Password: Not Enough Different Characters or Classes
Problem When trying to prepare a host (after an unprepare) in vCloud Director 8.20 (ESXi 6.0) I got the following error: Remote call failure on host [vcId=8af60e1e-3f9d-4d01-a69b-0f4c94e7f09a, moref=host-590541]. Error string was " A general system error occurred: Weak password: not enough different characters or classes. Please refer to the log for more details.". Read More…
In Order to Perform This Operation a Successful Bind Must Be Completed on the Connection
Problem When trying to connect vCloud Director 9.1 to Active Directory I was presented with the following error when trying to test LDAP Settings LDAP_SEARCH_ERROR – [LDAP: error code 1 – 000004DC: LdapErr: DSID-0C090A22, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0, v3839 Resolution Ensure you Read More…
All Interfaces of the Edge Gateway are in use – vCloud Director
Problem A customer tried to create an Org VDC network which connected to an edge Gateway. The following error message appeared: All Interfaces of the edge gateway are in use Resolution: It appears the customer had hit the limit (10) of maximum number of interfaces allowed on the Edge as described in this KB2042799 Read More…
vCloud Director 8.20 – API to Grant Privileges to Advanced Gateway
Problem: After upgrading to Advanced Gateway Edge in VCD 8.20 the user is unable to access the new tenant portal due to a permissions issue Example of error message: You need some or all of the following rights [ORG_VDC_GATEWAY_CONFIGURE_SSH, ORG_VDC_GATEWAY_VIEW_SSH] to perform operations [GATEWAY_VIEW_SSH] for (com.vmware.vcloud.entity.gateway:c2c63647-82e7-4a40-8167-xxxxxxxxxx) Solution: To fix the issue a vCloud Director administrator will Read More…
Download vCloud vApp using OVF Tool
The following command will download a vApp from vCloud Director (8.20). Note the vApp needs to be in a stopped state. vCloud URL: myuatcloud.jordansphere.co.uk Org Name: Jordansphere Org VDC Name: JordansphereUAT vApp Name: CentOS Username: auser Password: Read More…
Failed to Delete Interface of Edge Gateway
Problem: In vCloud Director 8.20 I was trying to remove an org network when the following error appeared : Cannot delete organization VDC network Failed to delete interace of edge gateway Resolution Re-deploy the Edge gateway then remove the org newtork once again.
PowerCLI – Script to Output Usage from vCloud Director
The following PowerCLI command will output all the Organization VDCS with status, CPU, memory and storage usage & provider VDC which it belongs to 1) Connect to the vCloud Director instance Connect-CIServer myuatcloud.jordansphere.co.uk -user administrator -password {password} 2) Run the following query Get-OrgVdc | Select Name,Enabled,CpuUsedGhz,CpuLimitGhz,MemoryUsedGB,MemoryLimitGB,StorageUsedGB,StorageLimitGB, ProviderVdc
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