Category Archives: vCloud Director
Configure IPSec VPN tunnels with terraform in Cloud Director 10.x
In my previous blog post, I showed you how to configure IPSec VPN tunnels from within the Cloud Director GUI. But what if you want to automate this repetitive task? In this blog post I will explain how you can achieve this with Terraform. Configuring and maintaining the IPSec VPN tunnels will become more easy…
Configure IPSec VPN tunnels in Cloud Director 10.x
This is a quick blog post on how to configure IPSec VPN tunnels in Cloud Director with a NSX-T backed Edge node. To get this working, we need to configure the remote endpoint with the matching IPSec VPN configurations as in Cloud Director. Requirements In order to configure a site to site IPSec VPN tunnel…
How to successfully upgrade Cloud Director from 10.2 to 10.2.1
I needed to upgrade Cloud Director to 10.2.1 in my home lab. In this blog post, I will show you how to perform a Cloud Director upgrade. My Cloud Director instance only contains a single Cloud Director cell, but I will explain the upgrade process for a Cloud Director with multiple cells/appliances. So that you…
Use a letsencrypt wildcard certificate in a Cloud Director 10.x cell
I have deployed a Cloud Director 10.2 setup in my home lab, but I haven’t configured the public address and a wildcard certificate yet for the web GUI and the console proxy. In this blog post, I will show you how to request a let’s encrypt wildcard certificate, and I will show you how to…
Cloud Director cells 10.1 and later failover methods.
HA support for the Cloud Director nodes were introduced in version 9.7 and has been improved in the 10.1 release. In Cloud Director 9.7 the only failover method was manual. So in case of a failed primary database node, the failover need to be manually initiated from the web console: https://vcloud.domainname.com:5480 That all changed in…
Unable to eject/cancel VMtools ISO in vCloud Director 9.7
During a maintenance on of the hosts I manage, I discovered that the host was unable to go into maintenance mode because of an mounted VMtools ISO. I was unable to easily unmount the VMtools ISO from the virtual machine. In this article, I will show you how to troubleshoot and eventually how to fix…
Unable to change VM config in vCloud Director 9.7 error: “class: java.lang.NullPointerException”
The following error message was shown in the vCloud director GUI after trying to modify the VM: “class: java.lang.NullPointerException”. The issue occurred on every VM configuration update such as: edit description, changing resources etc. Troubleshooting on vCD layer I tried to find some additional logs by logging into the vCD cells and searching for the…
No DNS resolution after successful deployment of vCAv 3.5.1 appliance.
For the preparation of a migration, I needed to deploy a vCAv 3.5.1 appliance on the source site. The migration was going to be from vCD 9.5 to vCD 9.7 platform. During the initial setup of the vCav appliance, I ran into an issue when configuring the lookup service. The error message I got was:…
Partially powered off state error caused by duplicate VM in vCloud Director 9.7
This week we experienced an issue with two virtual machines not showing the correct values in the vCloud Director view. Both virtual machines had 2 vCPU when we checked the virtual machine properties in vCD, but the values were totally off when we compared the values with the VM properties from the vCenter GUI. The…
Virtual machine is associated with a wrong resource pool in vCloud Director 9.7
Virtual machine is associated with a wrong resource pool was the warning i had on two virtual machines in vCD. Those 2 virtual machines were also disappeared from the resource pool view in the vCloud Director GUI. Because of that, I wasn’t able to vMotion those virtual machines to the new resource pool (cluster). In…