Let’s talk about VCF a little bit. A recent VCF implementation conversation inspired this post. You received your hardware to deploy your VCF Management Domain or Workload Domain. Exciting times after a long wait! While you are preparing the host by installing the devices you need and the supported firmware is possible that your physical […]
Customizing VMware Cloud Director Portal
You may customize the logo and theme for your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal and each organization’s VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal to meet your corporate branding and create a fully customized cloud experience. In this blog post, we are going to show you some easy API calls using Postman and share some […]
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 […]
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Restore with Veeam Self-Service Portal
IBM Cloud VMware Shared Solutions allow users to use Veeam Self-Service Backup Portal, a web-tool based on Veeam Enterprise Manager. The portal helps users to perform backup and restore operations, search for files in guest file systems of backed-up VMs and restore the necessary files to the original location or download them to a local […]
How to effortless delete 1000’s audit events in vCloud Director DB
During recent vCloud Director cell upgrades and database migrations it was noticed the size of DB increased drastically and the amount of time needed to migrate a DB from SQL Server database to PostgreSQL database specially during creation and data migration of TABLE “audit_event” Normally I let this process run unattended until it completes minutes later […]
Error during upgrade of Zerto Virtual Manager from v5.0 to 5.5 u4
Symptoms: ZVM upgrade to 5.5 U4 fails reporting the following: Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{570932D3-0B36-41C5-93D5-15E811D5B3C9}v5.5.40.19\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. Error 24581 was returned by WinVerifyTrust. Cause: The certificate in the signature cannot be […]
Certificate Error during Zerto Virtual Manager Upgrade from v6.5 to 7.0 u3
Symptoms During ZVM upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 the installation stops reporting the following: Package: Zerto Virtual Replication Error: A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{}\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. Cause The certificate in the signature and CounterSignatures […]
vCloud Director 8.1 Cannot update VDC /Power-on vAPP / Edit VM Settings
Hello community members! We would like to share our experience trying to resolve a problem with vCloud Director 8.10. The resolution took few weeks until VMware Support provided an action plan. Hope it helps! Symptoms – Unable to update any parameter of an vOrg vDC– Unable to power-on a vAPP– Unable to Edit a VM […]
Cannot login as admin after upgrade vRealize Operations to version 8.0
After completing the upgrade from vRealize Operations 7.5 to version 8.0 we were unable to login as admin Symptoms Log in to the admin or Product UI of VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8 You see the error: The credentials are correct and logging into the node (in my case I only have a single node) […]
Inconsistencies between VOMA versions on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 – What version to trust?
Experiencing metadata corruptions in VMFS volumes is a troubleshooting scenario that consumes a lot of time specially if you can’t access some VMs files anymore and your applications are experiencing outage. Hopefully you have your backups up to date and tested to restore your machines but in some cases you may need to recover those […]