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This article will explain the steps to unlock or reset the vCloud Availability root account. There are a couple of scenarios where you might need this. For example when the account is locked out after too many fault attempts you will get “Access denied” when you login: In my case I was just being stupid..… Read More
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In the latest release of vCenter (6.7U2 and higher) you will find a feature called Developer Center Code Capture. If you are familiar with VMware flings you might know about the Onyx fling which was a similar project. The idea of a developer center was first released in the VMware on AWS Cloud console. As… Read More
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In this article I will describe a procedure how you can upgrade to the vCloud Director 10 appliance. We’re going to perform an upgrade from vCloud Director 9.7.0.14534864 to version 10.0.0.14636284. The update process takes around 10 to 15 minutes in total, based on a three vCD cell setup.The release notes for vCloud Director 10… Read More
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So the other day I found an old script I created when vCloud 9.0 was still hip and happening. I was wondering if this script would still work with newer versions of vCloud and in particular the API version. So in this blog I will show you which API versions are supported by vCloud. So… Read More
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Today I received an error in my vCenter Server:“Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems“ This surprised me, because this environment is a quiet one without any kind of special configuration. In this article I want to share what happened and how I resolved the issue. Could not connect to one or… Read More
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In this article I will demonstrate how you can deploy vCloud Director 9.7 with three cells. In my example I will use the vCD appliances (.OVA) and the internal PostgreSQL database as shown below: Prerequisites Before we get started, there are some preparations you need to do yourself: Check the vCloud Director 9.7 release notes… Read More
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In this blog I will share with you a great tool I found that looks really interesting for automating daily tasks: Terraform for vCloud director. In addition to the automation tools I mentioned in a previous blog post this tool offers even more possibilities in terms of Infrastructure as a code. The Terraform vCloud Director… Read More
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At a certain point during the deployment of vCloud Director you have to submit a “NFS mount for transfer file location” as shown below. In this article I will explain what it’s for and demonstrate how you can configure a NFS share on Windows Server 2019 suitable for vCloud Director. vCloud Director uses the NFS… Read More
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In this blog I will intruduce you into the basics of vcd-cli and multitude of possibilities this tool offers. vcd-cli is a command line interface for vCloud director and is being maintained by VMware. I feel that vcd-cli is a powerful tool that can make your daily tasks a but easier. For certain tasks I… Read More
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In this blog I will show you how to deploy a vApp using PowerCLI. One of the cool things about vCloud is that you can create vApp templates. An example of a template could be a set of servers that is always needed when deploying a new environment. For instance a file server, a application… Read More
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