Tag: Cloud Director
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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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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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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
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