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Today I am writing this post to share a script that turned to be useful in many environments where backup solutions have tricky or avoidable configurations to support PostgreSQL. Using the script simplified the scenario When this script was created it resulted on time and cost saving after seeing engineers spending more time than expected […]
You are here because you are working on your vCloud Director upgrade to one of latest version could be 9.7 or 10 and realised you need to upgrade your PostgreSQL to a newer major version for this. In our demo cloud we had PostgreSql version 9.5 with vCloud Director 9.1 so was about time to […]
This quick post is about my experience during vcloud DB migration from MSSQL to Postgres. DB migration process should be straight forward if your cloud director cell is fairly new, never experienced database issues or never in your life you received an error in vCloud director GUI trying to delete an object (chances are low […]
Welcome to our May 2023 newsletter, where we bring you the latest updates on VMware advisories, new releases, public cloud news, exciting new Hands on Labs, flings, and events. As always, we strive to keep you informed and up-to-date on all the important happenings in the world of VMware. So, sit back, relax, and let’s […]
Welcome to another Baking Clouds post. You are maybe here because you are experiencing the error Deleting or renaming a vDS uplink port fails with: Uplink name is in use by the teaming policy defined at DVPort as documented in this KB article on vCenter Server 5.5 or above. It is unusual to experience this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 part of the series to get vCloud Director for service providers upgraded to latest version from version 9.1 to version 10.As part of this series we are posting about all tasks related on this work to mention a few quickly. Upgrading PostgreSQL to version 10 Updating vCloud Director Converting DB to PostgreSQL […]
SRM Appliance is finally available! For those who were waiting for the moment…VMware announced the release of VMware Site Recovery Manager Photon OS-based virtual appliance! The Site Recovery Manager Virtual Appliance is a preconfigured virtual machine that is optimized for running Site Recovery Manager and its associated services. You deploy the appliance on an ESXi […]