So with all the new posts flying around on the top 10 people to follow for Virtualization, for Storage and Cloud amongst others, I thought I would write my own Top 10 vCloud people to follow. This is purely based on my opinion and I am not going to rank these, it is just people I follow everyday to help with my daily work. Kendrick Coleman – @kendrickcoleman – I’m Kenny Coleman (Kendrick is my full name), and live in Louisville, KY. I started my career off as a windows system engineer after graduating from the University of Kentucky, which lead me wanting to get back into networking and landed me my first certification, CCNA. As a Cisco and systems engineer, it lead me into my new passion of virtualization. I’ve been honored by VMware with the vExpert award for my contributions to the VMware community and being a virtualization evangelist. […]
SPS NotEnoughLicenses error in vCloud Director debug log
Building a new vCloud Director environment today, I was experiencing issues trying to deploy a new vAPP. Every time I deployed a vAPP I got the error Failed to Create. So what was going on? I could deploy VMs in vSphere, vCloud Director was deploying the VMs in vSphere, and I could power them on manually from vSphere!?!. Clicking on the error gave me no information at all, and it showed that the VM was successfully being deployed too! I needed to take a look at the log files on the VCD cell to see whats happening. I SSH’d to the cell and issued the following commands: cd /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs cat vcloud-container-debug.log | grep -i error 2013-01-14 10:44:10,288 | ERROR | sf-activity-pool-2 | SpbmServiceImpl | SPS NotEnoughLicenses failure of 1 attempts to make SPS call at VC 2013-01-14 10:44:12,288 | ERROR | sf-activity-pool-2 | SpbmServiceImpl | SPS NotEnoughLicenses failure of […]
How to configure DHCP server using vCloud Networking and Security Edge device (vShield)
This is a follow on post from my previous article titled How to deploy a vCloud Networking and Security Edge device. This post will show you the steps required to configure the Edge device to act as a DHCP server. Login to the vCloud Networking and Security Manager (vShield Manager) Select the DHCP tab Click Plus in the DHCP Pools section Enter the DHCP Pool configuration Click Add Click Enable to activate DHCP After enabling, click Publish Changes for all configuration options to be sent to the Edge Device
IKEAHackers: Mac Book Air desktop stand
I wanted to share my latest find on IkeaHackers.net. After reading Frank Denneman’s post on his whiteboard desk, and discovering the Ikeahackers site, I actually like to see what idea’s people come up with for different uses of Ikea products. This post is about my latest find, an Apple Macbook Air desktop stand/holder. I have been looking for some kind of stand that I can use for my Air, after setting up a permanent desk in VMware’s Palo Alto office. This simple solution solved it, and for $1.99 it was an absolute bargain. Ikea sell a plastic (sturdy and strong) Napkin holder called Fantastisk. As you can see by the picture, it really does work, and looks cool too. For the full Ikea Hackers post click here
How to get rid of URL ?doing_wp_cron=xxxxxxxx
So I noticed a few times on my blog that I was getting a URL return of https://www.davidhill.co/?doing_wp_cron=1352938402 While this doesn’t cause a problem, it doesn’t look professional, so I wondered what it was, and why was it appearing. After some digging, I found a link to this page on the Wordpress support forums http://wordpress.org/support/topic/doing_wp_cron. It turns out that I enabled a feature as a work around for my scheduled backups on the recommendation of the plugin creator, and this was the consequence. What it doesn’t tell you is how to fix this problem. For me it is a really simple fix, as I host a Turnkey Linux WordPress appliance in a Virtacore vCloud, I simply enabled loopbacks on my host. For anyone who doesn’t understand the “WordPress” term “Loopback” it is the URL of your site being able to “loopback” locally on itself. My host configuration did not have this configured. A simple way of fixing this is […]