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Configuring and using VMware vCloud iPad app

Configuring and using VMware vCloud iPad app

My previous article listed the download link for the VMware vCloud iPad app that was released today. This article is to demonstrate the screenshots and the basic configuration and use of the app. First you install the app from iTunes.  I will not be explaining to anyone on how to do this 🙂 Open the app you are prompted with the initial configuration screen: You have to enter your vCloud Org URL (Note: You cannot enter the vCloud Administration URL, it must be https://vcloud.url/cloud/org/orgname) Select whether to save the credentials Do you want to ignore certificate warnings (Note: If you have self signed certificates you need to select On) Select your external applications for RDP, VNC and SSH Once configured you will be prompted with the login page Enter your login credentials for that org You are then shown the overview screen Press on the screen anywhere to remove the […]

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vCloud Connector Firewall ports

vCloud Connector Firewall ports

I have been trying to export some VMs from my home lab to my public cloud provider, however when I tried to select a cloud I received the error that the vCloud Connector Node was not available.  After logging into the vCloud Connector server, I could see both nodes were down. I had enabled the firewall on both my public clouds yesterday, so I realised I had blocked the ports that the vCloud Connector Node uses to talk to the vCC server and other nodes. So I wondered which ports needed to be enabled. Reading through the vCloud Installation and Configuration guide for vCC 1.5.0 there is a great diagram on page 37 that explains the end to end data flow. As you can see by the diagram above the vCloud Connector Nodes talk on port 8443.  You need to open this port at both sides, your private cloud and your public […]

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Eating my own dog food - Blog Migration

Eating my own dog food – Blog Migration

I have now successfully migrated my blog site to a vCloud hosting provider, essentially Eating my own dog food. Practicing what I preach. Virtacore are providing the hosting through there vCloud Express Public Cloud offering. They provide there own portal to interface with vCloud Director and I must say it is quite impressive. The great side to now using a vCloud Express provider is that I now fully manage my own blog, from VM to OS to WordPress. This is great. If there is now an outage for maintenance I can only blame myself. For anyone who watched the Brownbag I did with Chris Colotti, you will probably be laughing at that statement. How did I do the migration? I downloaded a Turnkey Linux WordPress appliance. I then customised this appliance, ensuring VMTools were up to date, creating plenty of disk space for my images etc. Once this was all […]

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How to find out which database server is configured for vCloud Director

I got a question earlier about how to find out which database server vCloud Director is using. To do this follow the steps below: Connect to the vCD cell using SSH Navigate to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc cat global.properties You will see an output similar as this: # Database connection settings database.jdbcUrl = jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://192.168.10.163:1433/vcd;socketTimeout=90;instance=SQLExpress database.username = vcd database.password = dSLuRFq1fqHaADwT298j5aTy1GUfJxualYQSZv2Oa2xjR4b869x47Ihp1XAZj4cB The IP address highlighted in bold is the IP address or FQDN of the configured database server  

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Changing the IP address of a vCloud Director cell

Working on a solution with Chris Colotti and other colleagues, we came across a KB article that details how to change the IP address on a vCD cell. I had never thought about this previously, having never changed an IP address of a cell.  When you build your vCD cells, you bind specific services to IP addresses. You need to make the database aware of these changes once you have re-ip’d the operating system. This KB Article explains the full procedure on how to do this. These are the steps how to reconfigure the vCD database from the KB article above: o change the IP address of an installed vCloud Director server: Ensure to shutdown all the cells.To shutdown a cell, run this command from within the Red Hat system which is hosting the vCloud Director software:service vmware-vcd stop Change the column value of PRIMARY_IP in the CELLS table to the […]

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