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Configure vCloud Director to use IBM Cloud Identity as SAML provider

If you want to import users and groups from a SAML identity provider to your vCloud organization, you need to configure your system organization with a SAML identity provider to establish a mutual trust by exchanging metadata.. Imported users can log in to the system organization with the credentials established in the SAML identity provider. […]

Backing up InfluxDB databases to IBM COS

If you are looking to send your database backups to a remote location (in this case IBM COS) you will find this post very helpful. Requirements – Have IBM Cloud Account access and bucket configured– RCLONE tool– Access key id, secret access key, and the name of the bucket you want to mount Provisioning object […]

Use Grafana to display vCloud Director stats

If in your environment vRealize Operations is not available, and you want customers to be able to see vCloud Director summary dashboards, or your are having problems with Tenant App for vCD the following post is the right for you!The original idea comes from Blog “Mycloudrevolution.com”, but we changed it a little bit to make […]

Error during upgrade of Zerto Virtual Manager from v8.0 to 8.0 u1

Symptoms: ZVM upgrade to 8.0 U1 fails reporting the following: Please contact zero Support. (Package: Zerto Virtual Replication Error: A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\ProgramData\Package Cache{258FFCE3-5000-4C80-BEEE-8DE50F79C1AD}v8.0.10.223\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt) Cause: The certificate in the signature cannot be […]

vRealize Operations vCloud Director adapter timed out

Few days ago we updated vCloud Director content pack for vRealize Operations Manager 8.0.1 from version 5.2 to version 5.3. After the upgrade vCloud Adapters stopped collecting data.The following message was displayed when Testing the connection: vCloud Adapter logs /storage/log/vcops/log/adapters/VCOpsAdapter 2020-05-20 12:45:12,919 WARN Collector worker thread 2 com.integrien.adapter3.alive.AliveAdapter.checkForRemovedNodeMaster – Skipping check for missing nodes, SuiteAPI […]

Quick Fix: Upgrade to vCloud Director 9.5 fails due to a disabled ESXi host not in vCenter

While working on the upgrade of one of our vCloud Director cells from 9.1 to 9.5 the following error appeared after the binaries where installed and upgrade tool was executed to complete the DB work using/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/upgrade The error was pointing to some ESXi hosts with disabled status. Starting with vCloud Director 9.5, disabled ESXi hosts […]

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