In a two cell vCloud setup I was having trouble booting the second cell when the first cell was already running. When investigating this issue I noticed that there was something wrong with the permissions on the transfer directory. In the cell.log files I found the following error: “Transfer spooling area is not writable”. The transfer […]
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Change IP address of VMware vCloud Cell
For an existing environment I had to change the VLAN and IP address that was used on the VMware vCloud 5.1 Cell. In VMware KB 1028657 is written how to change the IP address in the database and in the vCloud Cell config, but there is no mention of how to do this at Linux […]
Rethink using vCloud Director 5.1 with just vSphere Enterprise license
Customer of mine was running vSphere with Enterprise licenses and wanted to extend his environment with vCloud Director. Since the minimal requirement for vCloud Director 5.1 is a vSphere Enteprise license, we did some checking on what features would be left out when using just an Enterprise license instead of Enterprise Plus. The environment is […]
VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies part 3
I hope you enjoyed part 1 and part 2 of my VMware vCloud networking series. At least I learned a lot from writing these posts and I have now much more confidence in being able to deploy a vCloud environment. In this part I’m going to explain how to publish a Web Site from a […]
VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies part 2
In the first part I wrote on “VMware vCloud 5.1 Networking for dummies” I showed an easy way to setup and attach VMs to an organizational network and give them access to the external network and the internet. In this second part I will show you how to connect VMs to a vApp network and […]