vSphere 6 nested in vCloud Director
vSphere 6, nested, in vCloud Director? Yes! I just wanted to play..
Six weeks and still going strong
Been a whirlwind of things happening (and to learn) at the new workplace and I’m still having a great time. Starting to work on some of the internal items I am looking forward to upgrading and refactoring. Starting with DNS and then will begin revisiting some of the other working systems. I’m also enjoying some of the systems that are […]
How-To: Purge old Ubuntu kernels
How do you keep your /boot clean of old kernels in Ubuntu (or any other Debian derivative)? This script can do it for you.
It’s 1.0 to you but you’re beta to me: vCloud Director Client for iPad
VMware’s new vCloud Director Client for iPad carries on the version 1.0 tradition of VMware software releases with missing or non-operational features, but it is VMware and they will update this into a stellar application.
vCloud Director 1.5 cannot upload files error
Let’s say you have your vCloud Director cells behind a load balancer. You try to upload your files (.iso and .ovf images for either a vApp or media and receive an error message like: Error: Transferring files On page 98 of the vdc_15_admin_guide.pdf you will find a paragraph pointing out that you need to fill in the API field for uploads […]
Install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts
According to the install documentation, VMware vSphere 4 ESX and ESXi 4.1 update 1 are supported. Install or upgrade to vCloud Director 1.5 will fail with the following error when trying to add the provider vDC: Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os This is easily fixed by editing the database table [os_id] and inserting the relevant information.
vCloud Director Cluster got you down?
vCloud Director – the VMware solution to building on-demand infrastructure for the enterprise and cloud computing…works. But there are some trials you must encounter and complete before things work smoothly. TL;DR: I failed at first but found the problem with the issue being firewall services blocking inter-cell communications. This post is about the log entry and how it isn’t very […]