Cloud computing and Virtualization

One of the nicest tool available for vCD Life cycle management is VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager. We were able to successfully upgrade our POC environment from 10.3.3 to 10.4.1.1, which gave us confidence in upgrading the production environment using VCPLCM 1.5. Unfortunately, the upgrade was failing in the production environment and I wanted to share the experience and solution for it.  This tool makes our life easier to do all the prerequisite checks and takes snapshots and take backups of DB before doing the upgrade. It was failing at the stage of "Upgrade_DB" with the below task in VCPLCM. We could see it was timing out with a Postgres IO timeout error in the vCD logs. The logs in VCPLCM and VCD are not very informative and also the upgrade failure results in an automatic rollback to dig further.   ["2023-05-19 13:13:43,812Z"] 2023-05-19 13:13:43,811 - DEBUG - Starting with VCD upgrade. ["2023-05-19 13:13:43,812Z"] 2023-05-19 13:13:43,812 - DE...

This post describes steps to migrate vCloud Director MSSQL database to another server

  vCloud Director upgrade from 9.7.0.4 to 9.7.0.5 It’s a Multi-cell environment (2 cell) hence I am following Orchestrated method for ease of upgrade which is really easy instead of manual upgrade. 

There are different types of network profile available - Existing, Public, Private, Routed and Outbound in vRealize Automation which uses default IP Address Management(IPAM). Apart from these network profiles we can assign a static IP to a blueprint as well.

In my previous post  Provider setup we have seen vCDA provider installation. Here, we will see vCDA 4.0.1 On-premises installation. Download the On-premise OVA from  VMware Download and deploy it in your vCenter.  Note: Ensure that vCenter Server , ESXi , Platform Services Controller , VMware Cloud Director , and the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance all use the same NTP server. 

VMware Cloud Director Availability is a powerful so lution used by VMware Cloud Providers to offer simple, secure, and cost - effective onboarding, migration, and disaster recovery as a s ervice to or between multi -tenant VMware clouds .

 I wanted to share my experience in fixing NFS issue during vCD 9.7 Linux based installation.  It is my first cell in the server group with CentOS 7 as operating system. The NFS server(centos) and client versions are v4. After configuring the first cell in the environment, the vCD service started successfully however when I tried to access vCD web port it was not accessible.