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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Manually Upgrade 9.7 vCloud Director

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 […]

Zerto 7 Update 2 – Unable to configure vCD settings

Symptoms We experimented the following problem when trying to configure vCloud Director settings from Zerto Virtual Manager or Enabling vCD BC/DR during the installation of Zerto 7 U2: Zerto virtual manager Install logs (location: C:\ProgramData\Zerto\InstallLog) Zerto.Zvm.Platform.VCD.Proxy.VCDProxy,Connect,Failed to login to ‘https://vcloudirectoraddress/api’ with username ‘Administrator@system’. Please verify the server address and credentials are correct Please verify the […]

vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for vCloud Director 2.0

vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App for vCD is a tenant facing application which provides a tenant administrator visibility to their vCloud Director environment. Service provider admin can enable access to the application to any tenant. It solves monitoring, troubleshooting and capacity planning use cases for a tenant. This is available only to service providers. The […]

VMware vCloud Director 9.5 – Announcement

vCloud Director, received a major upgrade to help both Cloud Providers and their enterprise customers. The new vCloud Director 9.5 enhances easy and intuitive cloud provisioning and consumption by adding highly-requested capabilities including self-service data protection, disaster recovery, and container-orchestration for cloud consumers, along with multi-site management, multi-tenancy and cross-platform networking for Cloud Providers. With […]

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