Tag: vCloud Automation Center

  • 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…