fails – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

vCloud Automation Center installation failure cleanup

magander — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:10:46 +0000

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 …

vCloud Automation Center Tenant Identity Store Configuration issue

magander — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:43:26 +0000

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 …

VMware Tools installation fails

magander — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:17:22 +0000

When trying to install the VMware Tools software in a virtual machine, using the typical option, i received the following error messages: The virtual machine was running Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 so i have successfully installed VMware Tools many times using the same virtual machine operating system. The virtual machine was running …