VXLAN – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

vCloud Director Management cluster disaster recovery

magander — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:07:05 +0000

A while ago i needed to perform a vCloud Director (vCD) management cluster disaster recovery. There are four main sections in the blog post: Infrastructure – describes the infrastructure used by the vCloud Director Management cluster environment. Rollback reasons – describes why the HP LeftHand P4300 storage volume rollback was carried out. Rollback preparation – describes …

VSM response error – Not licensed for entity

magander — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:26:38 +0000

A few weeks ago one customer changed his evaluation licenses for vCenter Server, ESXi, vCloud Director (vCD) and vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) to their newly purchased licenses. The customer runs the most recent versions, at present time 2013-04-12, of vSphere (ESXi 5.1 and VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b 947939) and VMware vCloud Director (5.1.1 868405). Everything looked ok in …

VXLAN VIB installation fails

magander — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:20:48 +0000

So today was the fourth time during a very limited time frame the ESXi host VXLAN VIB installation failed when trying to enable the VXLAN functionality. When using the installation procedure for VXLAN documented here i’m not even reaching the part (Figure 6 in the provided link) when the ESXi hosts VMkernel Interfaces (Virtual Adapters/vmk) are created …