Category Archives: vCloud Director
Detaching a resource pool from PvDC failed in vCloud Director 9.7
Detaching a resource pool failed in vCloud Director with the following error message: [ID] ValidationException Delete_Hub_Containing_VMS . This week i needed to troubleshoot a task that failed in vCloud Director that occurred during the detaching of an resource pool in a provider vDC. The following error was reported in the vCloud Director GUI as shown…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to migrate vApps in vCloud Director 9.7 with ease – Step-By-Step
How to migrate vApps in vCloud Director 9.7 with ease will be explained in this article. This week I needed to migrate an vApp to an OrgVDC backed by an resource pool in a different data center. The customer needed to have an additional site where they could place their secondary domain controller. In this…