At present time, 2013-04-30, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system (64 bit version of 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.8, 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3) is the only one officially supported by VMware for vCloud Director (vCD) 5.1.2. Please see the vCD 5.1.2 release notes found here regarding the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 support since the the …
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vCloud Director Management cluster disaster recovery
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 …
vCloud Director – monitor failed login attempts without syslog
Last week i was asked by a customer how they could monitor failed login attempts in vCloud Director. The customer required the ability to use their existing monitoring tool and read the failed login attempts from a file every hour. The customer did not have a syslog server in place, will be implemented during Q2 …