Tag: VCDA
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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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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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