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• vRealize device Orchestrator 6.0.3 and vCenter 5.5 5.6 U3/vCloud Director

  Hello world

  I have a few questions on the compatibility between vRO 6.0.3 and vCenter vCloud Director 5.6 and 5.5:

  In vCenter Orchestrator 5.5.2 I plugin to connect the vCO to vCenter (version 5.5.2.1875635):

  

  1. in new vRO 6.0.3 for configuration I can not find this plugin, but when I checked the news of plug-ins I found a plugin vCenter (version vCenter Server 6.0.2.2995112). But how can I connect vRO 6.0.3 vCenter 5.5 (only by the workflow?).

  

  2. a supplementary door on vSphere Web Client integration with vRO. To do this properly first of all I must use SSO authentication mode? It won't work with LDAP authentication?

  3. anyone know if vRO works closely with vCloud Director 5.6? I found 5.5.1.2 plugin, but using this plugin, I can not connect to vCD (in vCO 5.5.2 I have no problem).

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Hello

  (1) Yes, plugin configuration is workflow (this is the approach recommended new plug-ins; the old configuration of Web UI is deprecated and will be removed at some point).

  (2) only the SSO mode is supported; LDAP won't work. Note that the UNIQUE authentication token is acquired in the name of the user logged in vSphere client to Web, so you must make sure that this user has enough permissions to connect to vRO.

  (3) it should be newer versions of this plugin, and compatibility matrix showing which plugin version is compatible with given the vCD. Don't know where it is, however.

• Map ID between vCloud Director and vCenter Chargeback by API

  I currently have a configuration where vCenter Chargeback automatically imports the hierarchies of vCloud Director by a data collector. I find difficulty in mapping a vCloud Director ID entity in a vCenter Chargeback one.

  I'll give a practical example:

  I vCloud Director organization ORGNAME and VM VMNAME.

  I want to generate a chargeback for the entity VMNAME report. How do I tell me what ID of entity should I spend in the report query if the only information I have comes from the vCloud Director?

  Thank you in advance,

  Marco

  Hi Marco,.

  To get the Id of the virtual machine in the entity report request, you have the following option: -.

  • Go step by step to VM, in this approach, you have to call according to API

  1. Get all the hierarchies, GET hierarchies--> this response API, get the id of the hierarchy based on the hierarchy name (name of the hierarchy will be same as the name of the Organization to vCloud Director)
  2. Hierarchy of browse, GET /hierarchy/ {hierarchyId} / browse--> this the API response, you get the id of the entity of the root of the hierarchy
  3. Entity to browse, GET /entity/ /hierarchy/ {hierarchyId} {entityId} / browse--> this response from the API, you will GET the ID of the entity for immediate children of the entity of the root of the hierarchy
  4. Go by calling the entity API browse recursively until you reach your desired VM (or entity).

  Please note that travel entity API returns very few details about the entity (name and entity id). If you want to filter your VM (or other entity) based on the name, this might be enough for you.

  But if you want to filter your VM (or other entity) on other criteria, you may need to call ' entity Get GET /entity/ /hierarchy/ {hierarchyId} {entityId} "API for more details on the entity.

  If you to filter the VM (or other entity) based on the attribute custom, you can use the API ' get the attributes of an entity, GET /hierarchy/ {hierarchyId} /entity/ {entityId} / attribute.

  • If the size of your hierarchy is not great (you don't have too many entities in the hierarchy), you can follow the following approach: -.

  1. Get all the hierarchies, GET hierarchies--> this response API, get the id of the hierarchy based on the hierarchy name (name of the hierarchy will be same as the name of the Organization to vCloud Director)
  2. Get hierarchy, GET /hierarchy/ {hierarchyId}--> this response API returns you all entities in the hierarchy with a single blow. Once again very little detail of the entity is returned (name and entity id), if you want to refine your entity on other criteria rather than by name, then you need to use 'Get entity' or 'Get the attributes of the entity year' as explained above.

  Please note that if Director vCloud in vCenter Chargeback hierarchies that are filled automatically, there is a named "vCloudEntityId" located on the rebilling of entities corresponding to entities vCloud Director of custom attributes. The value of the custom attribute "vCloudEntityId" represents the entity type id and the vCloud vCloud Director entity.

  For example, if a TIME named "helloVapp" has id 123456 into vCloud Director. Then in vCenter chargeback the value of the custom attribute "vCloudEntityId" will be "VcloudVappEntity-123456"for this "helloVapp" TIME."

  I hope this helps.

  -Amrainder

• White (gray) vcloud Director portal after installation

  Hi all

  I lived the installation guide and saw blog various positions on the vcloud Director 5.1 and all this installation process seems simple enough for me.  The problem is that I keep getting stuck in the same game in all 3 facilities I've tried so far in a test environment.  Whenever I have the installation and try to go for the first time the Installer Wizard url (https://IP-of-vcd-server=http-nic) it just displays a gray screen... no text, no icons, nothing!

  I read some posts on this subject and they got never really at the bottom of it in the comments, so I hope that someone, somewhere had this problem too and can point me in the right direction as to what could be the problem?

  I'm under RHEL 6.3 x 64 with firewall disabled, 2 network cards, installed certificates (self-signed) and vcloud Director 5.1.2 - 1068441.

  DB is MS SQL 2008 running on a server separate from the DB

  I hope someone is able to help

  Can you delete and recreate your database?  I know it's a new facility, but it seems that the DB was partially initialized once and then reused with this installation later.

  This means that the db, create a new one with the same name and account to connect, re - run the script configure once, and then restart the services.  Please make sure that there is only vCloud Director for installation at the start, as always, we can add cells later via a different set of steps.

  The errors are on the decryption of the files, which means that some of the generated ID keys do not seem to correspond to the local operating system files.

• Connection to vCloud Director 5.1 with the REST api plugin

  I can't get this to work.

  I'm following part of the manual, I found here: http://blogs.vmware.com/orchestrator/2011/07/vcloud-director-twitter-yahoo-and-foursquarecom-http-rest-plug-in-use-case-examples.html

  So I install the plugin and run the workflow to add a host:

  

  And set the authentication with the workflow "Set vCloud to authenticate a host REMAINS:

  

  And run the supplied workflow "show a vCloud, Director of the Organization:

  

  And get the error: "no valid API version can be selected.

  I also tried with version 1.0 and 1.5 of putting in the URL, but cannot make it work. What Miss me?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  It is a problem with you REST plugin does not support the vCloud 5.1 authentication correctly.

  I created the following work around to fill the gap until a new version of the plugin REST solves this problem.

  Please find here.

  Christophe.

• Unable to see models with vCloud Director

  Hi all

  I use vCloud Director 1.5. and have created a few models in the vSphere.However when I try to import models of vSphere to vCloud, I am unable to view the created models. Please tell us what I could hurt.

  In addition, someone has user FAQ for vCloud director, if so, please let us know.

  Convert virtual computer models, then you should be able to view them to VCD using the vSphere import option.

• vCenter and vCloud Director integration of software packages?

  I try to use certain tasks of the vCenter library and the library of the vCloud Director but they have different types of variables:

  More specifically, I have a workflow which instantiates a TIME based on today's date, after that she instantiated I want to run a program in each guest virtual machine.

  The task of Director vCloud ' Instantiate a paralytic "has an output parameter 'vappOut' of type 'vCloud:VApp', but getAllVMsofVApp has a parameter of 'paralytic' of type 'VC:VirtualApp '.

  I had to reconfigure my plugin to point to the system rather than the organization. I am able to run the script on the client now.

• vCloud Director agent 1.5 and 5.0 ESX install

  So I was stuck on this problem all day. I have install a LABORATORY VC, vCloud Director on ANY 1.5 and imported the vShield device. 2 guests can see both the same two LUN 1 TB. In VC is all looks good, but the question is now, I cannot prepare my 2 hosts. I have rebuilt the 4 times each. Both hosts are in an active cluster with DRS. I get the following error in vCloud Director:

  "Cannot prepare host."
  

  
  

  Failure occurred during the preparation of the host 'esxi2 '.
  -esxi2
  -esxi2

  I tried to force a manual installation:

  / var/log # esxcli software install--force d /opt/vmware/vcloudagent-1.5.0-453916.zip vib
  Result of the installation
  Message: The Operation completed successfully.
  Restart required: false
  VIBs installed: VMware_bootbank_vcloud - agent_1.5.0 - 453916
  VIBs deleted:
  VIBs ignored:

  But then goes to vCD, it is not ready... I tried everything I can think of.

  Logfiles which I need to sift through on the host to submit more information about why the TI of fails?

  Thank you!

  even if you manually install the VIB, you always run the step 'prepare' vcloud Director.  VIB itself is just a module, and it will be not configured correctly until you run the action to prepare vcloud.

  Please make sure you have a persistent scratch location, if it was a compact installation.  If you are on an SD card or a USB storage, make sure that it happens soon enough to process the download and install it in a minute or two... or it's a timeout.

  either elsewhere newspapers that you would need to look at are the vcloud-container - debug.log (from the time of the State of the error), and perhaps the esx host logs in case there is a Setup error.

  / opt/vmware/vcloud-Director/logs /.

  See you soon,.

  Jon

• Resize the VM disk and hot add drive to vCloud Director?

  Hello

  For the moment you can add hot cpu and memory added to warm to a virtual machine in vCloud Director. Two features. But from a management perspective, I'd rather have the ability to add the drives and disks of VMS in extension hot hot. Extension of discs and adding disks on the fly is a very common practice in vSphere.

  Someone at - it an entry about it? Can it be done through the API? What is on the roadmap for a future version of vCloud Director?

  Yes it is possible using the vCloud API, take a look at this blog by Jake Robinson post that shows you how to use the vCloud new cmdlets Director - http://geekafterfive.com/2012/02/24/vcloud-apigui-throwdown-part-2/

• VMware vCloud Director with the NSX Manager installation process.

  Hello world

  I recently planned to deploy VMware vCloud Director (so NSX Manager will be deployed, as part of the process) on an existing environment (existing virtual machines running, virtual switches,...).

  Customers use their virtual machines because they are in production.

  I was wondering if the deployment / installation of NSX Manager would cause no downtime or disturb the workflows running or even break the VM interconnections?

  Thanks in advance,

  Lawrence B.

  I looked at many tutorials, and indeed nothing should happen so that deploy a controller or something else. My concerns were about this "else", as the virtual switches and so on. I guess that the NSX will show existing resources such as the existing virtual switches (and so forth) already configured with vCenter?

  What vCloud Director does is interact with NSX via API.  Calls are exclusive to VXLAN (vdnscope-# resources in the API) and demand to deploy or update an edge.  vCD is not 'show' resources discovered by NSX.  You configure NSX and vCD makes an API call and said ' I want a Board connected to the port groups A and B "or"I want a new vWire of this VXLAN instance.

  Is there a document with the "best practices" for the deployment of vCD?

  Yes: VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit: Cloud Computing reference Architecture | United States

  The meddle with existing resources, must have dedicated resources for the vCD vendor (aka the cluster in vCenter).  It is better to have that then using a pool of resources to a cluster where neighbour noisy problems can arise.  vCAT above might exceed a lot of that when you read it.

• Move the VM from: vCloud director to vCenter

  How to move a virtual machine from: vcloud director to the vcenter even integrated into vcloud Director?

  If VCD has no more need of this virtual machine, you can perform steps below.

  1 unregister the virtual of VC machine

  2 remove the machine virtual de VCD

  3. save the VM in VC

  SCR would be an additional tool that would be useful for moving loads of work, but a lot depends on number of cases of use of involved and of the virtual computer.

• autonomous VMRC console for vcloud Director

  Hello

  I use the stand-alone vmrc available in this link VMware vSphere 5: Private Cloud Computing, server and data center virtualization to open the console vsphere.

  Is it possible to use the vmrc to open vcloud Director console?

  Please help me.

  Thank you.

  Autonomous VMRC is not supported with vCloud Director.

  VMware Remote Console 7.0 Release Notes

  • VMRC does not support vCloud Director, vCloud Air and vRealize of automation of virtual machines.

  Therefore, you should use the console system provided in vCloud Director.

• 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.

• 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

• vCloud connector - cannot copy VAPP vCloud Director to vSphere

  Evening,

  Try to copy a paralytic to vCloud Director on vCenter 5.5 5.6 using vCloud connector 2.7.

  The scenario:

  -vCloud Director fully configured with one Org, an Org vDC and a catalog.

  -The catalog is entirely filled, shared and published.

  -Org and catalog are configured to allow the publication to external organizations;

  -vCenter and vCloud Director have been added to vCloud connector via vSphere Client plug-ins;

  -vCloud plug connector is able to see the entire structures of vSphere and vCD (org records, catalogs, vApps, models, etc.).

  Reproduce the error:

  -Using the vSphere Client, click on the Org vCD;

  -Go to the tab vApps.

  -Select a VAPP off engine;

  -Click on copy.

  -Select Catalog (it is marked as shared and, curiously, unpublished);

  -Select vCenter as the target;

  -Select the clusters, folders, data store, formatting the drive and so on;

  -Power On TIME after deploying (or not, does not matter);

  -Validate (managed);

  -Finishing.

  Task starts and fails in a minute (or less) with the following message:

  "Export OVF has failed. Failure when copying data to the clouds: https://< vcloud_director_fqdn >. Reason: [0e65fbc1-4e04-4924-ae06-c4377dfc97af] there is no catalog in the organization. »

  Looks as vCloud connector, for some reason, is unable to locate the catalog during deployment (although it may be perfectly visible during the Copy Wizard and in his inventory).

  I tried searching for it and can't find anything similar to this error.

  Maybe it s a vCD configuration error, but how would be? I ve already selected all types of option to allow editing of catalogue and sharing, and nothing has changed.

  I published also successfully catalog VCDs to vCloud connector content library, so nothing else makes sense to me.

  Solved.

  Created a new catalog and IS NOT published. Used for the copy. Went well.