Storage vMotion in vCloud Director

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• Cannot delete the storage policy to vCloud Director 5.5

  I'm trying to delete the storage policy to vCloud Director 5.5. I did in several vCloud Director organization VDC but stuck with one on the same instance of vCloud Director. I migrated all the VMs, the media and the VAPP model to another storage strategy. I checked in vCenter as there is no VMs who belong to this policy. Always in the vCloud Director, I see 30MB "asked" to this strategy of storage for this VDC.

  Any ideas what I need to check? How can I find what always uses this storage strategy?

  The problem has been resolved. Failed ISO image was only visilble in Administration and media & other only. After it has been removed, we were able to delete the storage policy.

• The transfer server storage shared for vcloud Director cells

  Hello

  I'm building a cluster of vCloud Director (3 guests) in our environment, but I was wondering about transfer server shared storage that is required for downloads and uploads the data among all cells, here is that excerpts from the Director Cloud installation guide for the same

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  To provide temporary storage for uploads and downloads, shared storage must be accessible to all hosts in a cluster of clouds Director. The amount of storage to transfer server must have permissions writable by root. Each host must ride this storage $VCLOUD_HOME

  / Data/Transfer (in general transfer/opt/vmware/cloud-director/data/transfer). Uploads and downloads are the storage for a short time (a few hours a day), but because the transferred images can be large, allocate at least several hundred gigabytes at this volume.

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  I have some questions related to this,

  1. can I use storage iSCSI for this "shared forwarding server storage" or only a NFS storage will do.

  2 storage is recommended according to the prospective of VMware.

  3. If anyone has references to the configuration for this storage documentation, please let me know.

  Thank you

  Keryan

  It is not explicitly stated above all because there are several options and alternatives.

  NFS is by far the easiest and also the easiest to wear but CIFS, for example, would work.  Like any other technique of file-sharing system that makes the blob of data readable and accessible in writing of all cells at the same time.

  iSCSI is not enough to really say yes or no to the subject.  If you have a shared several cells and do iscsi lun on it ext3 file system, then the cells will tear system metadata of file into pieces in a relatively short deadline, because ext3fs is not designed to be multi-homed.

  This isn't a limitation of iSCSI, or a lun SAN, or tours with virtual machines to share the same file several VMS vmdk, is put on top of this file system.

• vMotion in vCloud Director 1.5 problem

  Dear guys,

  I have a funny situation...

  I have my virtual vCloud configured with esxi5.

  Everything is ok except for the fact that I can't vmotion invited between these 2 virtual esxi...

  I have configured as follows (internal) network:

  -management + vms traffic 192.168.3.x

  -vmotion 192.168.2.x

  the message I get is esx cannot communicate on the network for vmotion... any idea?

  I'm going crazy...

  Daniele

  where did you got the esxi virtual server?

• How to remove auto set the profile of the vcloud Director of storage

  Hello

  I would like to delete the free storage set the vcloud Director profile. But have no corresponding button, anyone has idea?

  I already removed "self storage defined profile" and "storage cap" vcenter.

  Thank you

  Simon

  Oh ~ ~
  Sorry about that, found that it remove the provider vDC.

  Thank you

• vCloud Director for 5.6.3 - level storage disk virtual machine profiles service provider

  Hello

  A new feature has been ad with vCloud Director for provider 5.6.3

  Profiles of storage disk virtual machine level:

  Unlock loads such as databases and e-mail servers that require different levels of a single VM disks to balance the cost of storage with performance.

  Can someone show me how I can do?  When I try to add a second disk to a virtual machine I can not change the storage for that specific disc profile!

  Thank you

  It is a unique feature of the API.

  I think that this should be the right section of the API schema: http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-56/topic/com.vmware.vcloud.api.reference.doc_56/doc/types/DiskType.html

• Get the object of StoragePod storage profiles [vCloud Director]

  Hi all

  I'm automating DTS stuff for the creation of new vApps in vCloud Director and I want to integrate and use the workflow to Change Storage DRS by virtual machine configuration , but to do this I need to provide him with an object of type VC:StoragePod...  I have worked out how to get the default storage of each virtual computer profile, but may not know how to get to the StoragePod that it covers.

  Don't laugh, but I only managed to get this far before getting stuck:

  var vms = vApp.getChildrenVms();
  for each (var vm in vms) {
   storageProfile = vm.storageProfile;
   ....
  }
  

  Can someone show me how to get a StoragePod of a profile of storage object ideally default virtual machines?

  Thank you!

  Mark

  Have you had the opportunity to see this thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2147437#2147437 - it seems debating what you are interested... The catch here is that you are trying to do from the side the cloud... I can't look at this right now, but I suspect that you MUST have access to the underlying infrastructure to do what you ask... in this case, you will need to extract the object from VC:VirtualMachine of your vCloud:VM object, then the thread above can deepen assistance.

• vCloud Director - SVMOTION ERROR

  When I try to SVMotion a virtual machine. I get the error "this virtual machine is managed by vcloud Director solution.» It is not recommended to edit it directly. Instead, use the management console.

  The virtual machine is turned off in State

  Please suggest how to SVMOTION a virtual computer managed by vCLOUD Director

  Hello

  Even if it's a warning, we can migrate the virtual machine as long as under conditions are checked.

  Note: migrate through Storage vMotion is possible, but there are several caveats.

  • Make sure that the new data stores have the correct storage policy and are assigned to the correct hosts. There is no vCloud check engine steering investment using this method and it can cause serious problems if you do it right.
  • This is not recommended for virtual machines configured quickly as they are inflated to the full clones.
  • It is not possible for VAAI quickly put into service of the virtual machines being unable to Storage vMotion them vSphere.
  • Balancing of virtual machines on data warehouses is entirely manual.

  Follow each step diligently---> http://download3.vmware.com/vcat/documentation-center/index.html#page/Consuming%20a%20vCloud/3c%20Consuming%20a%20VMware%20vCloud.2.083.html

  VMware KB: Best practice for migrating to new storage in vCloud Director vCloud infrastructure

• Storage vMotion for a virtual machine on vCD

  Hello

  I saw this cluster data store is not yet supported, but is it possible to make a storage vmotion, a computer virtual managed by vCloud Director, on the same vDC data store?

  Imagine that I present you 2 store data for the provider vDC, I can move the virtual machine between two data store?

  Thanks for your reply.

  Cédric

  See this Q & A blog.

  http://www.virtual-blog.com/2010/10/VMware-vCloud-Director-QA-part-2/

• Unable to prepare the host to Vcloud Director

  Hi all

  Hope you guys can help me. I try to install the track of vcloud Director version, and I got most of this work. The problem I have now is that I cannot prepare a host. I installing the server in a cluster, I have no shared but only storage using local disks (wondering if this isn't the problem). I added my vcenter server, which is a virtual machine on a host, but I'm still unable to activate the host for its use.

  I read somewhere on the forums that it must be in maintenance mode, but it does not work. In fact if I do this, the host gets a Red Cross in the available column. On the only host I get an error saying connection refused. The other, they say just can't prepare host.

  Any help would be welcome.

  KettieKop

  You need to meet the prerequisites first, specifically to have active DRS.  For the active DRS on the Cluster of hosts in vCenter, for the DRS, you need to have more than one ESX host AND the shared storage.

  Shared storage is a requirement for vMotion (as the DRS is on your virtual machines for load balancing)

  Several hosts is necessary to allow pools of resources (you need a place to load their balance)

  Once you meet the requirements, then you should be able to view the ESX host, when you try to prepare them for vCloud Director.

  Best regards

  Jon Hemming

• vCloud Director page does not open.

  Hi all

  Today I faced a strange problem in my vcloud Director. all of a sudden all the URLs for org and admin home page of vcloud stopped.

  I tried to search in google and find a few KB, but they are not useful. As below.

  VMware KB: Access to the URL of the organization fails with the browser error: error 404 not found
  
  I have tried different browsers and restarted my vcloud server but nothing helped. Any help or idea please.

  Thank you

  vCloud newspapers are not specific to the problem. I checked and found the watchdog .log and found that the server is not the storage space. in any case, I'd drive and his works fine and went smoothly. .

  Thanks for your help. Have a nice day everyone.

• VCloud Director displays do not Vcenter data.

  Hi guys,.

  I installed VCD 5.5, vsheild Manager and vcenter on a single ESXi 5.5 . I am facing problems with VCloud Director.Although I have attached the Vcenter Sucessfully in VCD, vcenter data not poping upward into Vcd. So the list of hosts is empty. No resouce pool are coming in Vcd.

  Here are my questions coming in my mind... I think I might get hurt

  1 then I installed VCD 5.5, vsheild Manager and vcenter on a single ESXi 5.5 host?

  2. is it a problem with the license... Although all of them are allowed until 2015. ?

  3. do I need to manually install the agent Vcd on ESXi... Although I think that this should be done automatically? If yes how to do this.

  Please tell me where I can be wrong.

  I have attached snapshots of Vcenter and VCD. Please review those and help out me

  All responses will be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Tarun Gupta

  You must create a provider vDC for nothing appear.  This requires some DRS to be on (if you don't have it already done) and requires usually two hosts in a cluster.  This is because you need to spend in maintenance mode to install the agent correctly and can vmotion powerd on the VMS of a host while the other prepares.  It's all part of the installation and Administrator's guide.

• Issue of SDRS to vCloud Director after you add the new data store to the Cluster of DTS

  Hi people,

  We use vCloud Director 5.5 in a vSphere full 5.5 environment.

  We have several DTS Cluster in vSphere and connected to vCloud Director.

  Following problem.

  When I add a data store to a Cluster of DTS and connect this to the corresponding storage profile data store, the storage profile is not available to vCloud Director more.

  After removing the new store data in the cluster of DTS, the profile becomes available again.

  Any ideas?

  Concerning

  Jean

  How did you the storage profile associated with the data store?  via c# client or vSphere web client?

  If you did the wrong way (c#) there no storage class label appropriate against it.

  A data cluster store has the storage class who would have all preparations of data contained inside.

  I think that you should check the service class is associated properly in vSphere web client (before adding to the DS Cluster).  Once it displays correctly, and then add the data store to the cluster.

• vCloud connector 2.5 - copy the model of vSphere to vCloud Director fails

  Hi all

  I'm trying to make a copy of the model of the private Cloud for vSphere (e.g. my instance of vCenter lab) the vCloud Director private cloud (my instance vCD lab, which is deployed and registered with the same instance of vCenter mentioned above) with vCloud connector 2.5.

  I have deployed the server component of vCC, configured and deployed two nodes of vCC - a to connect to vCenter for private cloud config vSphere and another to connect to the vCloud Director org for the basic cloud vCD config private. Moreover, the vCloud Director is registered to the same instance of vCenter which is used for vSphere cloud.

  I then tried to open a copy of the model from the vSphere cloud node to the node of vCD. The task to export the OVF template will start, and the task of SCR plugin will also display the copy task. This vCD instance also model any TIME if you go to the properties of the VDC organization selected during the SCR copy Wizard.

  After about 18%, the percentage remains stuck there for a little bit before the 'Export OVF Template"task fails with"Operation timed out ". After that, the task indicated in the vCC plugin will fail also later with (OVF Export failed. Null message) and the import of VAPP model in vCD job will fail also - VAPP failure will take upward of space inside the affected storage however profile until I have manually remove the failing through vCD VAPP model object.

  Anyone else having this problem? I've seen this problem on both environments so far: vCenter 5.1 update 1 with vCD 5.1.2 and vCenter 5.5 with vCD 5.5. If the problem seems to be specific to the version of vSphere. The logs generated by server SCR bee all that useful for me to understand what went wrong did not.

  Thank you

  You can consult this KB, if you haven't done so yet:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2078110

  I hope this helps.

• vmotion in vcloud 5.1 configuration

  We are running vcloud Director 5.1. The cluster backend wasn't originally setup with vmotion because we had no dedicated network. We are now successfully vcloud vapps and would add vmotion for the cluster. I read that there may be problems of vcloud after toggle DRS, I wanted to ask if anyone has seen the same thing with vmotion. Thank you

  vMotion is independent of vCloud Director.  You shouldn't do anything in vCloud Director at all.  Simply configure kernel ports as required and out of the race.

  If you have not configured for vMotion, DRS we that will perform the initial placement of the virtual machine... then more nothing else (since there is no mechanism to allow automatic movement of virtual machines).