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.
Author: Jordansphere
I currently work for an ISP on the South coast as a Senior Engineer. I mainly spend my time maintaining the Cloud. CCNA, VCP4/5, VCP-Cloud
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
Datastore Capacity Reports Different Values in VCSA 6.5
Problem I recently grew a datastore (SANSF01) from 4.5 TB to 5TB in a 2 ESXi cluster. All worked successfully, However occasionally vCenter will show the old value and thus give us a warning about low disk space. a "Refresh Capacity" forces the value to be correct (5TB) but when I look back later on in Read More…
Zerto – Delete from Disk and Remove From Inventory Grayed Out
Problem A customer did a Zerto test failover for a few VMs – which sadly failed. They ended up deleting the VPG and recreating it. This allowed them to complete the failover test and live migrate from Primary to DR (which is where these boxes will live). However, they were left with the old VMs in an Read More…
Upgrade vCloud Usage Meter From 3.6.0.1 to 3.6.1
Source VCUM : 3.6.01 – 10.61.65.73 Target VCUM : 3.6.1 – 10.61.65.72 Process: 1) Deploy VCUM 3.6.1 from OVA on same network 1) Log into the source VCUM 3.6.0.1 (10.61.65.73) as root and enable SSH # service sshd start 2) Log into the target VCUM 3.6.1 (10.61.65.72) as usgmtr and migrate data # migrateum 10.61.65.73 3) Read More…
Get ESXi Version and CPU Model via PowerCLI
Script: The following script will report the name, version, server hardware and CPU model of all ESXi hosts in the vCenter. get-vmhost | select Name, @{N='ESXi version';E={"$($_.Version) $($_.Build)"}}, @{N='ESXi Hardware';E={"$($_.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor) $($_.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.Model)"}}, @{N='ESXi CPU Type';E={$_.ProcessorType}} Output:
Reset Lost Root Password – CentOS 7
Issue: I lost the password for my CentOS 7 virtual machine in my cloud VDC. Resolution: To reset the root password we will firstly need to boot into single user mode. Use the following steps: 1) Reboot the VM. During startup press "e" in grub menu 2. Find the line starting with linux16. Read More…
NSX Network and Security Tab Disappeared in vCenter
Issue: I noticed the Network & Security tab was not visible in a vCenter 5.5 Web Client. This had worked previously. Troubleshooting: Upon investigation in the NSX Manager it appeared the Lookup Service URL was showing as disconnected Resolution: To fix the issue we had to click Edit then re-enter the credentials.
Install Open VM Tools on CentOS 6
Use the following commands to install Open VM Tools (open-vm-tools) in CentOS 6 1. install EPEL repository yum -y install epel-release 2. Install Open VM Tools yum -y install open-vm-tools 3. Start Open VM Tools service service vmtoolsd start
Transfer Spooling Area is not Writable in vCloud Director
Issue: During a new install of vCloud Director 8.20 on Centos 6.9 the service failed to start properly for the first time. Troubleshooting: I investigated log files # tail -f /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/cell.log Output: Application Initialization: 'com.vmware.vcloud.common.core' 100% complete. Subsystem 'com.vmware.vcloud.ui-vcloud-webapp' started Application Initialization: 'com.vmware.vcloud.common.core' complete. Server is ready in 1:05 (minutes:seconds) Successfully handled all Read More…
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