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If you want to import users and groups from a SAML identity provider to your vCloud organization, you need to configure your system organization with a SAML identity provider to establish a mutual trust by exchanging metadata.. Imported users can log in to the system organization with the credentials established in the SAML identity provider. […]
Symptoms When running ZVM VMware installer package “7.5 Update 4”, the following error appears when starts the pre-checks: “you cannot upgrade until zvm has finished all his clean-up tasks” You check the GUI and follow all the steps described in ZVM Upgrade Best Practices, but the problem persists. Cause This error indicates stale undo records […]
Today has been announced that Datrium has reached a formal deal for VMware to purchase it. The declaration was officially published on both vendors web sites This will extend the Site Recovery disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering provided by VMware with the well-known, cost-optimized DRaaS solution from Datrium. After the deal closes, Datrium’s […]
If you didn’t manage to apply early this year or your application was unsuccessful, don’t worry! There is a second chance! First off all, here is the link for the information on the applications: https://vexpert.vmware.com/ Since we got our vExpert status, it opened many doors giving us opportunities and benefits To start with, the most […]
The following issues were reported on the original build of v10 Patch ID 3161 released in 2020-05-27 adds support for vSphere 7 and fix many errors that you don’t want to experience by customers calling you saying “this is broken” or “where is my data” Among the issues this patch address here is a short […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]