Working on my home lab the other day, I had forgotten where the log files were kept for VMware vCloud Director. I thought I would document there location and what the purpose of these log files are for. Path to log files:/opt/vmware/cloud-director/logs UPDATE: Path to log files as of vCloud Director 1.5 changed to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs cell.log The first log file that I always use, is the cell.log. This provides information on what status the cell services and application start up are at. Generally I use tail -f to view the live status when starting a vCD Cell. Application startup begins: 1/18/11 10:48 PM Successfully bound network port: 80 on host address: 192.168.10.152 Successfully bound network port: 443 on host address: 192.168.10.152 Application Initialization: 9% complete. Subsystem ‘com.vmware.vcloud.common.core’ started Successfully connected to database: jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.10.150:1521/xe Successfully bound network port: 443 on host address: 192.168.10.53 Successfully bound network port: 61616 on host address: […]
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The Savvy Granny “Subject: Cloud”
I have seen one of these before, and found them very amusing. Simon Seagrave at Techhead has posted these already, but thought it would be good to share with my readers as well.
Port Group backed pool doesnt display VLAN ID in VMware vCloud Director
A customer of mine found this bug today and thought I would share it with you. I have not seen this error before, as generally most cloud deployments I have worked on have been using vCD-NI network pools When creating a vSphere port group backed network pool, when you go to configure the “Port Group backed pool” there is no VLAN-ID’s shown in any of the fields. As you can see from the second screenshot the Port group has a VLAN tag, so it is a bit of a bug not showing this.
VMware vCloud Request Manager is now GA
VMware released vCloud Request Manager yesterday, and I feel it is important to mention this product on my site. vCloud Request Manager is an important addition to VMware vCloud Director. It provides the ability to add workflows and approval processes to vCloud Director enabling Cloud Administrators to keep full control and responsibility over there cloud environments. Here is an excerpt from the VMware product page Develop private cloud governance and control over VMware vCloud Director private clouds with vCloud Request Manager. * Add sophisticated approval workflows to provisioning requests * Automatically track software license usage as vApps are commissioned and decommissioned to maintain compliance * Enforce standardized settings on vCloud Director “Organizations” through the use of policies called “Blueprints” These capabilities are delivered out-of-the-box, allowing enterprises to quickly deploy a private cloud infrastructure supported by VMware end to end. I would recommend anyone evaluating or deploying a PoC to download […]
How To: Install Oracle Express Edition for use with VMware vCloud Director Database
I have been building a VMware vCloud environment in my home lab over the past few days, and decided I would share my thoughts with regards to using Oracle Express Edition with vCD. Oracle Express Edition is based on Oracle 10G, but is restricted to one database instance. Anyone who has had previous experience installing and configuring Oracle 10g or 11g will know how much of a pain it can be, configuring to startup at boot time, creating a database instance, these are all tricky things if you have never carried out these tasks. Oracle XE however makes life very simple indeed. I decided to use the Windows version, and promptly downloaded the required version from here. Either the Linux or Windows version can be downloaded via this link. Once downloaded there is a self extracting installer, run this and complete the installation (pretty much next next finish). Once installed […]