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Announcing General Availability of vCloud Suite…

January 14, 2019 No Comments

Announcing General Availability of vCloud Suite 2018 Platinum

Announcing General Availability of vCloud Suite…

vCloud Suite 2018 Platinum VMware vCloud Suite 2018 Platinum is now available for download! Cloud Management Platform with Intrinsic App Security As announced at VMworld 2018 in Barcelona, VMware is introducing vCloud Suite Platinum, VMware’s latest cloud management platform that helps IT enable developers to deliver VM and container-based applications with intrinsic security and consistent The post Announcing General Availability of vCloud Suite 2018 Platinum appeared first on VMware Cloud…Read More

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Cloud, Troubleshooting, Virtualization

vCD says “…does not exist in our inventory, but vCenter Server claims that it does.”

April 19, 2016 No Comments

This issue is caused by a sync issue with QRTZ and Inventory. It is easily remedied, however it will require down time as the cells will need to be shut down in the process. And don’t forget…BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP. You can never have too much backup 🙂 Just follow the steps below…

Cloud, Troubleshooting, Virtualization

How to capture OVFTool logs to troubleshoot Client Support Plugin issues in vCloud Director

July 24, 2015 No Comments

Follow the steps given below to capture OVFTool logs:

Open vCD UI in browser by adding ?debug=true at the end. For example see URL: https://xx.xxx.xxx.xx/cloud/?debug=true
Now reproduce the issue
Collect the client logs from the client machine. If client machine is windows, then the logs will be at following location:
1. %TEMP%\VMwareClientSupportPlugin\

Cloud, Cool Tricks and Tools, Database, Virtualization

vCD SQL Transaction Logs full?

April 13, 2015 No Comments

There are a ton of blogs out there with complex queries and actions you can perform when your transaction logs are full and the vCD Web Interface fails with an error like:

com.vmware.vcloud.common.persist.exception
.CellNotActiveException: Cell is not active

Well, I decided to make it simple for those who just want to get your environment back up and running ASAP.

Automation, Cloud, Command Line Shortcuts, Virtualization

Connecting direct to an Org in vCloud with PowerCLi

February 12, 2015 No Comments

I found it quite risky to connect to a vCloud instance as a SysAdmin and perform calls to a specific Org and ensure not to touch other orgs by a simple typo in my commands.

Use the following command to connect via PowerCLi direct to an org in vCD.

Connect-CIServer -Org WWW -Server XXX -Username YYY -password ‘ZZZ’