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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 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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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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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 article I will describe a procedure how you can update vCloud Director to 9.7.0.3. The update process takes around 10 to 15 minutes in total, based on my three vCD cell setup. The release notes for 9.7.0.3 can be found here. These are the specifics of my vCloud Director lab: Running version vCloud… Read More
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Introduction This article will help you solve an issue with vCloud Director 9.7 where it’s not possible to add a new role to the Role Based Access Control section of a tenant. This morning I wanted to add a new role to my tenant in vCloud Director. Normally the steps are easy: Navigate to vCloud… Read More
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In this blog I will explain how you can troubleshoot vCloud Director 9.7 SMTP settings when you receive a Fail – Error while configuring the SMTP server. Before we start, I would like to explain the different log files vCloud Director uses: All the logs for a cell can be found at /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs. vCloud Director… Read More
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In this article I will explain how to install public SSL certificates on vCloud Director 9.7 appliances. VMware points to this article to create and import a Signed SSL Certificate to the vCloud Director environment. The difference here is that most of us already own a SSL certificate. When this is the case, the mentioned… Read More
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In this article I will explain how you can easily identify and disconnect connected CD drives from VM’s on VMware vSphere using a simple PowerCLI command. Connected CD drives can cause issues when you for example want to remediate your VMware vSphere cluster using the Update Manager. Find and disconnect all CD drives from VM’s… Read More
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