-
Use a Clean Blueprint When Importing Existing Infra into vCAC
A customer ran into this recently and suggested I post it on my blog. He even let me use his screen shots! (Thanks Joseph). The problem was that after importing some existing VMs it was noted that the Action Items available were limited to just a few selections. Upon examining the screen shot, you may…
-
Setting up LDAP with vFabric Application Director and a 2008 AD Domain Controller
Hopefully this will save you some time in setting up – the documentation provides pretty good overview of how to do this, but some details are left out. This guide should get you up and running for a basic configuration. First, you will need to run the darwin-cli either remotely or from the AppD appliance. …
-
Upgrading vCenter Configuration Manager from version 5.6 to 5.7
VMware released an update to vCenter Configuration Manager this month and I thought I would document my experience upgrading my lab instance. The upgrade steps are clearly documented in the Advanced Install Guide starting on page 129 (as of this posting). In my lab is a two-tier install as follows: VCMDB – Windows 2008…
-
vCD vApp Deployment Fails for vCAC Blueprints on Windows Administrator password setting
I ran across this while building a lab for a customer this week and hopefully this will save you a little time. When I built the vApps in vCloud Director 5.1.2 I selected the “Reset Password” option in the VM Properties as shown below…. However, this setting in a vApp template causes the vCAC vApp…
-
vCAC 5.2 Upgrade Gotcha – “Models table exists…”
The vCAC 5.2 upgrade process is pretty well document, but if you aren’t paying attention (and I never pay attention) you could end up with an error show below: “Error: Model Manager Data has been previously deployed. Models table exists under the database DCAC” You have probably completely uninstalled the previous vCAC instance. Not what…
-
Understanding and Validating vC Ops Sizing Recommendations
I got the same (well, similar) question today from two different customers so I thought a post explaining the vC Ops sizing recommendation views and reports was in order. You may be familiar with the Oversized VM and Undersized VM reports available in vC Ops. I typically caution that these are RECOMMENDATIONS and some additional…
John Dias