Thought I would write a quick how to step by step guide on how to deploy vCloud Connector and configure the plug-in with vCenter. Once I have collected them all, I will update the article with the associated screenshots. Deploying the Appliance from OVF Extract the contents of the vCC zip file Login to the Management Group vCenter and select Deploy OVF Template from the File menu Enter the full path of the vcc OVF that was extracted previously and click Next Confirm the details by clicking Next Accept the license agreement and click Next Provide a name for the Virtual Machine and select a Inventory Location, and click Next Select a host or cluster on which to run the vCloud Connector appliance and click Next Select a resource pool and click Next Select a datastore and click Next Select either Thin provisioned or Thick provisioned format and click Next […]
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VMware vCloud Director Q&A Part 3
This is part 3 of the Q&A article published last year. Eventually I will migrate these to the FAQ section of the site. If anyone has any questions that are not included in this Q&A or the other Q&A’s post a comment to https://www.davidhill.co/2011/01/q-a/ and I will answer and include in the FAQ. vCloud Director: vApp Cloning Q. I have a vAPP comprised of 10 VMs. When I add this vAPP to my cloud using the “Add to My Cloud…” option, I see from vCenter that it is cloning each VM in a serial fashion, not in parallel. I was hoping the 10 source VMs would be cloned in parallel to 10 new VMs. Is this expected behavior and are there any options to change this to clone in parallel to reduce the provisioning time? A. Serial cloning is the expected behavior. Cloning and deploying new vApps is always done […]
VMware vCloud Director Host vCDNI Statistics Utility
After reading a colleagues (Kamau Wanguhu) blog article on vCD Network Isolation today I found out about a tool included with the VMware vCloud Director agent installed on ESX/ESXi Hosts. This is a really easy way to look at configuration and statistics for vCD Network Isolation configured on that host. Kamau’s article tells us the following about the tool To get per host vCDNI statistics use: /opt/vmware/vslad/fence-util The utility can be used to display: Configured Networks and there MTU settings Acitve Ports and there port IDs Switch State including inside and outside MAC addresses Port Statistics on a port ID basis When running the command with no options, this provides the help for the utility: ~ # /opt/vmware/vslad/fence-util vsla-fence log at Thu Mar 24 09:09:54 2011 fence-util [options] command [arguments [arguments]] -h This help message. -v Turn on verbose mode -q Turn on quiet mode -r Reset statistics after executing […]
HowTO: Enable Remote Syslog to VMware vCD cells after installation
Seen a few emails flying around the other day about how to add a remote Syslog server to the vCD cell once it has been installed. This has caught out a few people in the past couple of months. Follow the documentation and edit the syslog section in /opt/vmware/cloud-director/etc/responses.properties then re-run the configuration. Add your Syslog server to the audit.syslog.host line in /opt/vmware/cloud-director/etc/global.properties Restart the vCD Cell [service vmware-vcd restart] This will then configure vCD for using a remote syslog server. Please note: This is only required if you have an already installed or pre-configured vCD cell. For all fresh installations follow the guidelines in the installation guide.
Ephemeral Ports with VMware vCloud Director – To use or not to use?
An interesting topic came up the other day between some of us in the cloud team, regarding whether Ephemeral Ports should be continued to be used with vCD deployments. A colleague of mine Aidan Dalgleish (Senior Consultant, VMware TS Cloud Practice) kindly documented our discussions and wrote up the decisions. He can be found on LinkedIn. Background The topic of Portgroup binding was discussed and Ephemeral binding was selected as the preferred option for vCD created Portgroups for some of the following reasons: * Due to the dynamic nature of vCloud Director it is often difficult to define how many devices will be connected to a given Portgroup * Easy to code as there is no requirement to monitor and dynamically adjust the number of ports configured on the Portgroup as with Static/Dynamic * Very flexible due to their being no requirement to define a number of ports and hence […]