Virtualization Team

Category: Cloud

  • vCAC 5.2 to 6.x Construct Mappings

    vCAC 5.x admins/architects might get surprised by vCAC 6.x construct naming and think VMware has abundant the constructs vCloud Automation Center used in the past. After a closer look though, you will notice these construct functionality is still the same as they used to be in 5.x and they were just renamed to fit the…

  • vCloud Automation Center 6 Load Balancer configuration

    Every Distributed vCloud Automation Center 6 installation involves configuring load balancing at several levels. As load balancers have historically been the responsibility of the network team, many virtualization/server admins are not comfortable with them.  Further, if your load balancing request is not clear and detailed the network team will return the request back and ask…

  • Application Director unable to login to cloud provider

    I was delivering an engagement lately where I had to integrate VMware Application Director with vCloud Automation Center 6.0.  I have got to the stage where I needed to connect App Director to a Cloud provider. Although I was certain, I have entered the correct information on the New Cloud Provider screen as shown below,…

  • Generating Certificates for vCAC 6 IaaS Web Server & Manager Service

    This post will take you through the steps you will need to generate, request, and apply the certificates for both vCloud Automation Center 6 IaaS Web Server as well the Manager Service. Please note this is the third part of a three post vCAC 6 Certificates tutorial, where the first two posts can be found…

  • Generating Certificates for the identity Appliance/vCAC Appliance

    At this post, I will go through how you Generate and import the certificates in a step by step fashion for both the Identity and vCAC Appliance. Please note this post is the second part of a three post tutorial where you can find the other two posts at: First post: vCloud Automation Center 6…

  • vCloud Automation Center 6 Certificates A to Z

    While working on delivering vCAC 6 engagements, I have noticed that getting all the certificates required in place has always required me to jump across different information sources between VMware documentation, blogs, & other consultants work. For that I have decided to put this guide together which cover the certificates process for a new vCAC…

  • How to fix: vCAC 6 AD Login is very slow

    While working at a customer site with a pretty decent size Active Directory where they have implemented an Empty root structure, vCAC login through Single Sign On when using Active Directory accounts were pretty slow. It took up to 10-15 minutes at time per login attempt. The customer had a multitiered domain in a single…

  • Warning: The current browser that you are using is not supported for use with vCAC 6.0

    After setting up vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1 for one of my clients, I was able to access the vCAC portal using my Firefox browser with no problem what so ever. After I have finished the configuration of vCAC and turned the setup to the customer to try it from his machine, he did not have…

  • VMware vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in is here

    VMware has just announced vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in which will help VMware customers manage their VMs in VMware Hybrid Service the same way they manage their vSphere environment right from inside their vSphere Client (Only Web Client as you would guessed), which should increase administrators efficiency and reduce the time of learning a…

  • vCloud Director VM Customization joining domain fail

    Joining VMs to the domain is a part of vCloud Director VMs customization process. While configuring the guest customization screen for your VMs in vCloud Director to join the domain is a straight forward & easy process, there seems to be many situations where VMs just fail to join the domain as a part of…

  • VMware vCloud Director Stuck While Canceling Task

    I have a customer who called me yesterday for having a task in vCloud Director that has been stuck in the cancelling stage for over a month. The problem has started after a power outage they had in their datacenter. vCloud Director is operating just fine, just that particular task was doing nothing and in…

  • Configuring vCloud Director Provider SSO Federation

    If you have already took the effort to build your vCenter Single Sign On server while upgrading to vSphere 5.1, then it might be worth while to benefit of it to unify your login to vCloud Director. Wouldn’t be nice if you don’t have to enter your credential separately for vCloud Director after you have…

  • How to get Redhat 6.2 Linux Second NIC to Ping

    While trying to setup the Redhat Linux machine with two interfaces to install vCloud Director into it, I had some funny problem with my network cards configuration. I have not installed vCloud Director yet at that time, so I was sure it is some Redhat Linux or networking problem rather than vCloud Director in specific.…

  • The Order of vCloud Director 5.1 Upgrade Process

    It seems there has been quite few articles that try to explain the vCloud Director 5.1 Upgrade Process out there in the blog sphere, but most of them focus on the steps on how to upgrade vCloud Director Cells and the Database. As many of them do quite good job at that, I am not…

  • Free VMware vCloud Director Video Training

    Cloud Computing has been picking up for the past few year, and it seems to catch up with the way virtualization has been spreading up. VMware has been one of the leading companies enabling both public and private clouds. One of the main products helping our customers build their own Infrastructure As A Service Cloud…