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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 […]

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 […]

VEEAM Cloud Connect DR to IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions-Part1

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 […]

How to use Bitnami Catalog for 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 vForum Online 2020

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 […]

vCloud Director FLEX and HTML5 interfaces showing duplicates

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 […]

Configure External Access to the vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance Database

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 […]

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