Last week, before the 9/9 release of new the vCloud Suite software versions, i was asked by a potential Nutanix customer how long it will take from the moment the Nutanix block arrives on-site until a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) environment can be up and running and ready for virtual machine (VM) deployments. ————————————————————————————————————- Short answer: For …
Today, 2014-09-09, VMware released new versions of many products included in vCloud Suite: VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 2 – release notes here VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 – release notes here VMware vSphere Replication 5.8 – release notes here VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – release notes here VMware vCenter Orchestrator Appliance 5.5.2 – release notes here VMware vCloud …
A few days ago i was contacted when a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0.1 installation failed with the following error message: vCAC-Server-Custom-Database-Web-ModelManagerData-ConfigTool Installation Failed, Exitcode: 1 See complete log file at the end of the blog post. While investigating the error log file i found the following: System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceQueryException: An error occurred while processing this request. …
A few days ago i was asked to look into a failed vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) installation. The failing part was the Windows Server based vCAC Infrastructure as a Service component. I didn’t have access to the installation log file, which is normally saved in the vCAC IaaS virtual machine directory C:Program Files (x86)VMwarevCACServerConfigToolLog, so i really …
A few days ago i received an error in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6 i haven’t seen before. I was trying to deploy virtual machines (VMs) from a vCAC blueprint using the Linked Clone feature. When i requested 1 or 2 VMs everything worked just fine but when increasing the number of VMs per request to …
In the beginning of February (2014) i wrote a blog post about the faet that Smart card authentication does not work with vCloud Automation Center 6.0, you can find the blog post here. This blog post will be about another login problem i saw at a customer, running vCloud Automation Center 6. SP1 (6.0.1) a …
Whenever possible i configure a vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1 (vCAC) Reservation to use a vSphere Datastore Cluster. You configure the vCAC Reservations in the vCAC web interface under Home -> Infrastructure -> Reservations -> Reservations: However, the other day i couldn’t select, mark the check box and perform my configuration, the vSphere Datastore Cluster DSC-01 when …
Updated 2014-04-14: Today i received feedback from others who have seen the same problem: Darren Goff who reported this was caused by incorrect time in the vCAC Appliance. Brice Dereims who reported this happens 90 days after the installation. Admin account locked. I have not seen this issues myself but it might be workt investigating if/when you …
Last week i was phoned by a customer who was trying to setup an internal vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 SP1 proof of concept (POC). First of all, i don’t think we should call these things POC anymore since the vCAC concept has been proven over and over again. Definitely worth using a different name …
A few days ago i published a blog post about how you can “Add vCenter Orchestrator as a vCloud Automation Center endpoint” which you can read here. I used the vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) included in the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) appliance which includes the vCAC vCO plugin. If you want to add vCO as an vCAC …
Yesterday, 2014-02-13 very late Swedish time, VMware released vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 SP1. This is really good since i have seen quite a few things that will make my current vCAC projects a little bit easier. Below i have listed a few thing i’ll find very useful immediately. Error during import leads to data …
A few days ago i was informed about a potential problem/risk with the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 virtual machine (VM) import process. The problem can/will occur when you perform a VM import and using custom code in the (external stub workflow) during the vCAC VM provision state, WFStubMachineProvisioning. If this external stub workflow fails, …
Yesterday i was about to add vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 (vCO) as an EndPoint in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0. The Enpoint option is not available if using the vCloud Suite license. There are quite a few blog posts about this already, you can find one by @viktoriouss here. This problem will be solved in the near …
Yesterday i encountered a password complexity problem when installing vCloud Automation Center 6.0. My customer requires a 24 character password for all their service accounts and the passwords are automatically generated. The vCAC service account for running the vCAC IaaS services was configured with the following password: )ERj%l28AFh2(RT)!8#”1234 Yeah i know 24 character for a …
I’m currently in a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 project where all the potential end users must use smart card authentication. This is a company policy and we can not change this requirement. Apparently there is a bug in vCAC and the SSO integration which prevent us from being able to use smart card to …
During last weeks vCloud Automation Center 6.0 proof of concept (POC) i was asked by my customer to make it possible to select different vSphere vNetwork Distributed Switch port groups (VDS-PG) during the virtual machine (VM) request step. I used the below steps to create a drop down menu for the end user while requesting …