Category Archives: VMware

How to successfully repoint vCenter 6x appliance to another platform service controller - Step-By-Step 1

How to successfully repoint vCenter 6x appliance to another platform service controller – Step-By-Step

Repoint vCenter server to a another platform service controller is quite easy. Recently I needed to repoint a vCenter in a different site to it’s dedicated platform services controller. The current setup was an enhanced linked mode of two vCenters pointing to the same platform service controller. By deploying an additional platform service controller in…

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How to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 cells in HA - Step-by-Step 2

How to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 cells in HA – Step-by-Step

In this article, I will show you how to deploy vCloud Director 9.7 appliance cells in a HA topology. The installation of vCloud Director 9.7 is really straight forward and can be completed with the wonderful vCloud Director documentation page available online. In one of the upcoming articles, I will also demonstrate the migration from…

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Failed to set the time via NTP Details - vCenter upgrade failed 6x Step-By-Step 3

Failed to set the time via NTP Details – vCenter upgrade failed 6x Step-By-Step

Yesterday I had a scheduled maintenance to upgrade a vSphere environment from 6.5 to 6.7U2. This includes the upgrade from vCenter version 6.5 to 6 7U2C. Unfortunately I had a NTP error that caused the failure of the upgrade job. The deployment of the target (vCenter) appliance with the ISO file provided by VMware wasn’t…

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Unable to perform a VM task like vMotion or Snapshot in vCenter 6x - Step-By-Step 4

Unable to perform a VM task like vMotion or Snapshot in vCenter 6x – Step-By-Step

This week I had an VM that couldn’t perform an vMotion or a snapshot task. Performing one of these tasks results in an error message as shown in the picture below: Troubleshooting One of the first steps I did was checking the VM log of that particular VM for any errors. This is very simple…

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How to successfully implement CSE in vCloud Director 9.7 - Step-By-Step 5

How to successfully implement CSE in vCloud Director 9.7 – Step-By-Step

CSE (Container Server Extenstion) is a extension for vCD that has been around for a while now, CSE is like PKS an VMware technology to run container based workloads in vCD. Implementing CSE in vCD, allows the tenant users to deploy kubernetes cluster as a service. VMware published a well documented GitHub page, where all…

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Reducing the CPU Quota in vCloud Director 9.7 results in a error 6

Reducing the CPU Quota in vCloud Director 9.7 results in a error

The error message We were getting an error message when trying to reduce the CPU quota of an OrgVDC to 92 Ghz in vCD 9.7: “Unable to update the Organization VDC configuration because the new value for CPU resource is less than current usage by all Virtual Machines within this Organization VDC”. The error message…

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The requested operation could not be executed on VM – error in vCloud Director 9.7 – Step-By-Step

“The requested operation could not be executed on VM “VM Name”. Stop the VM and try again.” was the error message that i received when I tried to remove a specific vApp or a single VM in that particular vApp. I even waited a few minutes when we received this message, but it never got…

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