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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 […]
In our previous post “VEEAM Cloud Connect DR to IBM Cloud Part 1” we created a replication job using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions (vCloud Director) and VEEAM Cloud Connect. This second part will cover the creation Failover plan for a single VM and its execution Note: Veeam Cloud Connect Replication supports failover and failback […]
In this post we are going to create a replication job using IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions (vCloud Director) and VEEAM Cloud Connect. We hope you enjoy it! The scenario consist of a customer running a vSphere infrastructure and wanting to migrate or recovery virtual machines to a cloud provider offering IaaS with vCloud Director […]
Bitnami has been around for long time but in 2019 was acquired by VMware as part of their cloud and containers strategy. This was announced on the company website https://www.vmware.com/latam/company/acquisitions/bitnami.html The interesting part is before VMware bought the Bitnami it was possible to deploy applications only on public clouds: Google, AWS and Azure and the […]
VMware once again offers its popular online event that give us a look at new technologies and trends. We will have the opportunity to listen to VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger, talk to experts and try hands-on labs This a great opportunity to deep dive on the topics you are more interested and do them at […]
We haven’t post much about Public Clouds, so this time we decided to show you how to use IBM Cloud Object Storage with Veeam. Enjoy it! Provisioning object storage bucket Object Storage can be ordered completely self-service via the IBM Cloud Catalog. Log in to your IBM Cloud Account at https://cloud.ibm.com/ and navigate to the […]
Cause The user has logged in to vCloud Director using the system administrator credentials. The following error is displayed: Solution Use organization-specific user credentials to access the Tenant App Plugin. The Tenant App Plugin is not accessible to system administrators.
Another day another issue reported by cloud customer saying that vApps in vCloud Director are reporting double of configured resources than VMs has allocated. vApp_PROD03 is showing 1 VM but the Processors and RAM are double of the VM assigned – VM_PROD03 Customer reporting the issue while doing IaaS report In this particular case it […]
We were attempting to access vCD 9.7 appliance database from a server running PGAdmin without success until we followed some of the steps described in VMware Article: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/9.7/com.vmware.vcloud.install.doc/GUID-3A3BB3A9-F6F3-47BA-A785-2B99882A692B.html During a migration to the vCloud Director appliance, or if you plan to use a third party database backup solution (in our case PGAdmin), you might want […]
This post is dedicated on how to upgrade the firmware on your Dell MXL switches installed on Dell M1000e Chassis to fix known issues. First you need to login into Force10 and download the update using your customer credentials. The URL for that is https://www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/Software/MSeriesDownloads.aspx Then have a read to release notes of update to […]