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: […]
Q & A
I thought it would be a good idea to start a FAQ page. If you have a question that you have been unable to find an answer too, post it in the comments section of this article page and I will try to find a solution. Over time I hope to be able to build a nice FAQ section.
P2V and Disk Alignment
There were some questions asked the other day regarding using VMware Convertor and whether it performs a disk alignment when performing a P2V. The answer is NO. VMware Convertor doesn’t do any disk alignment. You will need to carry out the alignment manually afterwards. I have listed some good links covering disk alignment and how to perform this task. http://communities.vmware.com/message/1184316 http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/01/17/check-your-vms-alignment/ http://www.dailyhypervisor.com/2009/05/30/vmtn-io-performance-in-vsphere-block-sizes-and-disk-alignment/
EMC vSpecialists Rapping and Singing
Seen these today and thought I would share them. Very funny and very well done to the EMC vSpecialist guys, brilliant 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhRpxDXjZA=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Eh3VV4hL8s=player_embedded
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.