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vCAC 6 Service Unreachable – Reference error REPO404
While delivering a distributed install of vCloud Automation Center using exactly the same steps I have used for few previous engagements, & while the setup completed perfectly without any errors, accessing the infrastructure tab in vCAC has continuously reported the following error: —————————————————————————- Service Unreachable A required service cannot be reached at the expected address.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Vote for my VMworld Sessions!
VMworld Voting is here again. I have two sessions this year that made it to the voting stage. I would appreciate it if you can show your support and interest in these sessions and vote. Please vote at: http://www.vmworld.com/voting.jspa Below is an extract of both sessions: Session: 1304 Protect Your Cloud As the business world…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Chance to Win Google Glass from Veeam
As usual Veeam not only offering great products, but they have a great marketing team that always spoil us with new type of give away. This time they are offering Google Glass for the winner of their three sessions below attendees, and there will be 15 Pizza coupons per session. That means you will have…
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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…
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What’s New in StarWind SAN V8
StarWind SAN V8 RC has just been released with a lot of new features. Below is a summary of what to look for in this release: Log-structured File System: • VAAI UNMAP command implemented. • Internal structures changed to ensure compatibility with upcoming updates. • Improvements made for operations with VSS providers. Flash cache: •…
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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…
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Win Free VMworld Trip with Veeam
I am sharing this news, as I am sure many of you are looking for a free way to get to VMworld, and Veeam is offering a few of you a chance to do that. They are even offering a chance to Win a Google Glass. Sorry Apple, but I would rather the Google Glass…
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Vote For Your Favorite Virtualization Blog
It is that time of the year again where you can vote for your favorite blogs at: vsphere-land.com. It is a great way to show your appreciation to your favorite blogs and bloggers who you benefited from their blog posting. Remember most bloggers including myself are doing this on their spare time, and don’t get…
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vCenter Appliance fsck failed
While I have been working with a customer on upgrading their infrastructure to vSphere 5.5, they had a power outage during the night which got their full virtual infrastructure down including storage (Not sure what the story with their UPS/Power generator). After they have brought their virtual infrastructure backup up both their vCenter Appliance and…