A question was asked internally the other day, which I have to admit I did not know the answer too. Q: Do we have a maximum on name length for vApps and vApp templates in vCD 1.5? A: Yes, the vApp name can be 128 characters in length. Big thanks to Michael Haines for providing the answer to this.
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VMware vCloud KB articles released this week
Thought I would share the links to some important KB articles that have been released this week. Hope they help. Installing or upgrading to vCloud Director 1.5 fails in the RHEL 5 Update 7 operating system (2007405) http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007405 LDAP is configured, but group based authentication fails in vCloud Director 1.0.1 (2009317) http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2009317 Upgrading to vCloud Director 1.5 fails with the error: Error executing SQL statement: “INSERT INTO role_right (role_id, right_id) VALUES (102, 210)” (2008999) http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2008999
BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive Recording available
For those of you who missed mine and Chris Colotti’s brown bag hosted by ProfessionalVMware.com last night the recordings are available on iTunes now. To download any of the previous BrownBags click here There is also videos, slides and links available on ProfessionalVMware.com by clicking here BrownBag Video/Presentaion ProfessionalVMware Technical BrownBag – vCloud Architecture Deep Dive from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Slides vCloud Architecture BrownBag View more presentations from ProfessionalVMware Some links to follow up the session Sysprep KB’s: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026614 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026317 http://4sysops.com/archives/skiprearm-use-vista-indefinitely-long-without-activation/ Maximums: VMware vCloud Director 1.5 & 5.1 Config Maximums http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf vCloud Cloning series: Gotcha: vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 1 (Overview) vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 2 (Deep Dive) vCloud Director Clone Wars Part 3 (Design Considerations) vCloud “Eco-System” vCloud Ecosystem components explained http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vcloud/components-for-a-vcloud-deployment/ (A bit older was my original cut at what Dave has now) vCat http://www.vmware.com/cloud-computing/cloud-architecture/vcat-toolkit.html
vCenter Orchestrator Training EMEA – Sign up now
Hopefully everyone got to see myself and Chris Colotti’s Brown bag session last night on ProfessionVMware.com. During that session we spoke about the importance of Orchestration within a vCloud environment. We received quite a bit of interest from people around resources available on the product. VMware have just released 10 training classes in EMEA, so I thought I would publish the schedule here for anyone who is interested. I actually completed this course two weeks ago, and was seriously impressed by the power of VCO and what it enables me to do within a vCloud environment. If you have the time/resources available this is a must attend training session IMHO. To find the full schedule and in which countries it is available click here There is also further information available over at vcoteam.info
How to enable Elastic Virtual DataCenters in vCloud Director
I have been playing around with my home lab today, and trying to work out how to enable Elastic Virtual Data Centers within vCloud Director. First of all, what is an Elastic vDC you ask? An Elastic vDC allows you to add more resources to a Provider vDC when they become consumed/constrained. Why would you need to do this? Well first off this only works with the Pay-as-you-go Allocation model. Pay-as-you-go is exactly that, you have no idea as a provider on how many VMs will be deployed. Potentially there is the possibility that all your resources will be consumed, and your consumers will not be able to deploy any more workloads. This is where Elastic vDCs come in, you can add more resources to a PvDC on the fly. So how do we do it? Log in to vCD as a system admin Click the “Manage & Monitor” button […]