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VMware Cloud Director – Change the Primary Resource Pool for a Provider VDC
Cloud Director does not have the capability to switch a Provider VDC’s secondary resource pool to primary via UI or API. As the Broadcom KB 325643 article explains; “The only way to change a resource pool so it is no longer tagged a primary is to merge Provider VDCs“. However, there is another option via…
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VMware Cloud Director Availability – RT VMs – All you need to know
When the VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) architecture changed from Independent Disks to Replication Tracking (RT) VMs a lot of other things also changed in VMware Broadcom that left the RT VM as a bit of a dark art. Bryan van Eden did a nice blog post How to delete invisible RT based VM’s in…
Donagh Moynihan
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Tenant API Access for VMware Chargeback via Cloud Director
VMware Chargeback is no longer a standalone appliance. I have a post that goes through the migration from standalone to the integrated with Aria Operations model. For Tenants to reach VMware Chargeback, there are two options: Option 2 where VCD redirects to Aria Operations requires Aria Operations to be reachable to the tenants. This is…
Donagh Moynihan
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Storage Policies slow to load for VMware Cloud Director
I had an issue recently with Storage Policies being extremely slow to load on VMware Cloud Director (10.5.1.1). This had a knock on effect for any other tasks that used Storage Polices, such as creating vApps/VMs or setting up VCDA replications. Storage Containers was also slow to load. I am happy to share the fix…
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Migrating from Standalone VMware Chargeback to Aria Operations
I had the pleasure of carrying out a few migrations from standalone VMware Chargeback to Aria Operations so I want to share my experience along with some tips. Before you start, it is important that you have the correct minimum product versions as listed below. Tip 1: Once upgraded to Chargeback 8.16 there is a…
Donagh Moynihan
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vCenter Server – Key Provider Migration
I had the daunting task of migrating from one key provider to another and I was pleasantly surprised how well it went so I wanted to share the steps I followed. Host Keys Virtual Machine Keys
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VMware Cloud Director Database – Read Only Primary
When logging into VMware Cloud Director and presented with a 404 caused by Cell is not active, there is a pretty good chance the database is not in a healthy state. As explained in this VMware document the database cluster health can be determined by logging in as root to the appliance management UI at https://primary_eth1_ip_address:5480.…
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Deploy VMware Cloud Director Availability with a Multi-NIC Setup
Designing any VCDA architecture, a common request is for the replication traffic to be 100% segregated from from the management traffic. Atanas Stankov and Nikolay Patrikov have an excellent white paper VMware Cloud Director Availability Multi-NIC Setup that explains the setup very well. What has changed is that all the multi-NIC configuration can be easily…
Donagh Moynihan
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Automating vCloud Usage Meter Configuration via API
I recently had a requirement to automate the registration of vCloud Usage Meter (UM) to the VMware Commerce Portal (VCP). Manish Jha has a great blog post that really helped in my investigation. The process is now changed, for example UM is registered via the Cloud Partner Navigator (CPN) as opposed to VCP. VMware have…
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VMware Cloud Director Availability Encrypted Replication at 0% Synchronizing and not progressing
Creating VCDA replications is pretty straightforward. For encrypted replications I encountered a few hiccups so felt I should document it. VMware do have an article that outline the prerequisites . The main issue I encountered was getting the hbr-agent.vib installed on the ESXi hosts along with a repeating error message on vCenter of: “Invalid configuration…
Donagh Moynihan
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