vCloud Director agent 1.5 and 5.0 ESX install

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• Where can I find the package libXdmcp vCloud Director 5.1 RPM installation?

  Hi all

  I have installed my first vCloud Director and am not a Linux
  Guy at all. In any case my RedHat 6 operating system does not include the RPM libXdmcp
  package. I downloaded and installed several RPM packages on the web,
  but none of them does not seem to fix the problem. vCloud Director always told me
  the package is not installed. I think that am downloading and incorrect installation
  RPM. Can someone please point me to a URL where I can download the right file?
  I went to many Web pages with hundreds of links to libXdmcp
  downloads, but I don't know which one to choose from. Also if you can tell me the
  good way to install this would be great!

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  He should be the one below, it's him I used all my environments and is the one in the post to blog as well.

  
  

  libXdmcp - 1.1.1 - 3.el6.x86_64.rpm

• Unable to access vCloud Director

  We tried to build a private cloud, which is a total pain.

  Somehow, we were able to install vCloud Director. But we are unable to access the interface.

  Whenever we try to open ourselves to the IP address, in any browser, it takes some time and says "" Web Page not available"

  Please find the attached snapshot from cell.log.

  It seems to me.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Specifications:

  OS - CentOS 5

  vCloud Director 1.5

  SQL Server Express 2008 installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2

  Iptables works in centos (by default it will be) and if so, is that it is configured to allow the required ports vCD?  If you do not put this direct yet you could temporarily turn off and figure out what the rules are needed later:

  chkconfig iptables off

  service iptables stop

• 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.

• 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.

• 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/

• 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

• vCloud Director 5.1 and Leasetimes

  Hi community

  I have 2 questions about Leasetime in vCloud Director.

  -What is sending mail to lease? is this configurable?

  -is it possible to configure this leasemail send not only the owner of VAPP, but also to the people whose configuration is shared?

  Best regards

  MIC

  Hi mic.

  in the web console, it is on the upper right of your screen a link called "Preferences". There you can set the date of the email alert.

  I think that you can't configure it with the web console, you send the email to the user more. But with the vCloud APi, you can get users, the TIME shared with.

• 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.

• vSphere 5.5 hosts appear under "Hosts" in vCloud Director

  Hi guys.

  I had a problem with my cell of vCloud Director and re-installed completely.

  On the vCD fresh installation I have no problem adding vCenter 5.5 but no host show at all.

  I tried to remove and re - install agents on host computers, vCD reset my vCenter inventory 5.5 database, restart the hosts, but nothing is.

  Any thoughts on this topic?

  Thank you

  Campellos

  Attach a vCenter is not enough, you must create a provider vDC then.  It is the association of a cluster for the vCloud instance.  Once this is done, guests who are part of the cluster should appear in the list of guests to prepare.

  Clusters must be active DRS.  Do not disable DRS on a cluster, it is attached to vCloud Director.

• vCloud Director 5.1 prepare host has no

  We have a cluster of vSphere 4 host mixed with ESXi 4.1 and 5.1 5.1.

  3 of the 4 hosts are prepared and working in a vCloud Director 5.1 provider VDC.

  Recently, I upgraded the left of ESXi 4.1 to 5.1. After the upgrade, I tried to prepare it for the vCloud Director Provider VDC. But run into an error:

  Failure occurred during the preparation of the host XXXXX

  -java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

  -Reading has expired

  I tried following things:

  -Make sure there is no virtual machines running on the host. The host really going into Maintenance mode whenever I run the preparation.

  -Restart the ESXi host

  -Activate the firewall ESXi 80 443 httpClient

  -Run esxcli list of software vib | grep vcloud to check if the agent is already installed. But nothing showed up.

  All this made no difference. Installation always times out...

  Someone at - he seen this before?

  Ok! Now, the problem is fully resolved. Guess what the problem... The internal USB controller on the blade has been fixed in BIOS to USB 1.1! I changed it to USB 2.0 and everything works twice as fast and I was able to prepare the vCloud host successfully.

  Do not know why the BIOS setting has been changed just for this blade. Glade to have it well sorted.

• 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.

• List vCloud organization Org VCT, VMs and metadata of a VM field

  How can I use PowerCLI to quickly list the organizations vCloud, Org VCT, VMs and metadata of the computer called 'rent virtual field '?

  I want to do by using the views, but I can't find information on how to do it, especially the part of metadata.

  Any ideas?

  It is simple to find info from metadata.

  Make sure that you have imported the following module:

  Import-Module Vmware.VimAutomation.Cloud

  You must connect first to vcloud Director with the following command:

  User to be connect-CIServer - Server - - password - org

  Then, you need information of VM with the command Get-CIVM as:

  $vmv = get-CIVM | Sort-Object-property name

  Then, you need to get the VM metadata information with. ExtensionData.GetMetadata (as):

  Foreach ($vm $vmv) {$Metadata = $vm. ExtensionData.GetMetadata ()}

  If the metadata entry is not inserted until the property $Metadata.MetadataEntry.Count is 0.

  If not, you can take the metadata information Vlue of the field named location like this:

  $MetaValue = $Metadata.MetadataEntry [[array]: indexof ($Metadata.MetadataEntry.Key, "Location")]. TypedValue.Value

  Sctipt together to get the metadata should be something like this: (replace the values of vclouddirector, username and password with your)

  Import-Module Vmware.VimAutomation.Cloud

  Connect-CIServer-Server - of the username-password - org

  $vmv = get-CIVM | Sort-Object-property name

  {Foreach ($vm to $vmv)

  $Metadata = $vm. ExtensionData.GetMetadata)

  $MetaValue = $Metadata.MetadataEntry [[array]: indexof ($Metadata.MetadataEntry.Key, "Location")]. TypedValue.Value

  Write-Host $vm + $MetaValue

  }

  If ($global: DefaultCIServers.Count - gt 0) {Disconnect-CIServer-server * - force - confirm: $false} #For disconnect

• 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.