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vCloud Connector Firewall ports

vCloud Connector Firewall ports

By on February 1, 2012 in Cloud Computing

I have been trying to export some VMs from my home lab to my public cloud provider, however when I tried to select a cloud I received the error that the vCloud Connector Node was not available.  After logging into the vCloud Connector server, I could see both nodes were down. I had enabled the firewall on both my public clouds yesterday, so I realised I had blocked the ports that the vCloud Connector Node uses to talk to the vCC server and other nodes. So I wondered which ports needed to be enabled. Reading through the vCloud Installation and Configuration guide for vCC 1.5.0 there is a great diagram on page 37 that explains the end to end data flow. As you can see by the diagram above the vCloud Connector Nodes talk on port 8443.  You need to open this port at both sides, your private cloud and your public […]

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How to find out which database server is configured for vCloud Director

By on January 24, 2012 in Cloud Computing

I got a question earlier about how to find out which database server vCloud Director is using. To do this follow the steps below: Connect to the vCD cell using SSH Navigate to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc cat global.properties You will see an output similar as this: # Database connection settings database.jdbcUrl = jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://192.168.10.163:1433/vcd;socketTimeout=90;instance=SQLExpress database.username = vcd database.password = dSLuRFq1fqHaADwT298j5aTy1GUfJxualYQSZv2Oa2xjR4b869x47Ihp1XAZj4cB The IP address highlighted in bold is the IP address or FQDN of the configured database server  

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Changing the IP address of a vCloud Director cell

By on January 12, 2012 in Cloud Computing

Working on a solution with Chris Colotti and other colleagues, we came across a KB article that details how to change the IP address on a vCD cell. I had never thought about this previously, having never changed an IP address of a cell.  When you build your vCD cells, you bind specific services to IP addresses. You need to make the database aware of these changes once you have re-ip’d the operating system. This KB Article explains the full procedure on how to do this. These are the steps how to reconfigure the vCD database from the KB article above: o change the IP address of an installed vCloud Director server: Ensure to shutdown all the cells.To shutdown a cell, run this command from within the Red Hat system which is hosting the vCloud Director software:service vmware-vcd stop Change the column value of PRIMARY_IP in the CELLS table to the […]

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PowerCLI 5.0.1 Released with vCloud Director Automation

By on January 12, 2012 in Cloud Computing

A couple of days ago PowerCLI 5.0.1 was released.  I am quite excited about this release, it contains Powershell Cmdlets for managing VMware vCloud Director. You can now use the following cmdlets in conjunction with vCloud Director Name Synopsis Connect-CIServer Connects to the specified servers. Disconnect-CIServer Disconnects from the specified cloud servers. Get-Catalog Retrieves the specified cloud catalogs. Get-CIRole Retrieves roles in the cloud. Get-CIUser Gets cloud users. Get-CIVApp Retrieves virtual appliances in the cloud. Get-CIVAppTemplate Retrieves virtual appliance templates. Get-CIView Returns cloud views by Id. Get-CIVM Retrieves the virtual machines on the cloud. Get-ExternalNetwork Retrieves cloud external networks. Get-Media Retrieves cloud medias. Get-Org Gets cloud organizations. Get-OrgNetwork Retrieves cloud organization networks. Get-OrgVdc Retrieves organization VDCs. Get-ProviderVdc Retrieves the specified cloud provider VDCs. Import-CIVApp Imports a virtual machine from vSphere to a cloud. Import-CIVAppTemplate Imports a virtual machine or an OVF package from a vSphere server to the vCloud as […]

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vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCat)

By on December 21, 2011 in Cloud Computing

A couple of people have pinged me on twitter this week asking if I knew where the vCloud Architecture Tool kit otherwise known as vCat is located. I thought I would provide the link to help people out. http://www.vmware.com/cloud-computing/cloud-architecture/vcat-toolkit.html

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