Category: Cloud Computing
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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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The available storage IOPs capacity is not sufficient for the operation
For anyone using Storage IOPs in VMware Cloud Director Tomas Fojta has a great post to explain how it works – VMware Cloud Director for Storage IOPs Management. I encountered a Storage DRS fault of “the available storage IOPs capacity is not sufficient for the operation” that was actually caused by the Cloud Director IOPs limit…
Donagh Moynihan