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Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director

If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know that VMware is embracing Terraform for VMware vCloud Director. This means that your Automation for VMware vCloud Director just got a whole heap simpler saving you time and money.…

VMware vCloud Director Custom System Roles Not Working

Web Monkey7 years ago01 mins

Within VMware vCloud Director it is possible to create custom system roles to create different levels of access for administrators. Such roles might include Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.…

VMware vCloud Director Cannot Import VM to vApp

Web Monkey7 years ago06 mins

I ran into an issue recently with vCloud Director 8.20.0.5070630 while trying to import a virtual machine from vCenter into a vApp. The Import VM into vApp window appeared, I filled out all the info and when I click on OK, vCloud produced a class java.lang.NullPointerException…

VMware vCloud Director Cannot Delete Additional Network Specifications

Web Monkey7 years ago05 mins

Within VMware vCloud Director you have the option of creating additional secondary subnets within an External Network. You may do this to introduce additional networks to your vCloud infrastructure while re-utilizing the same External Network vlan In my lab, I have an example of an External Network called External-Net-2 which resides on vlan 5.…

VMware vCloud Director NSX Tenant Portal Firewall Logs

Web Monkey7 years ago03 mins

VMware has released vCloud Director 8.2 for Service Providers which now includes a new HTML5 interface for NSX Edge advanced gateway. As I take a look at this in the lab I did notice that something was missing from the HTML5 interface which is actually called the Tenant Portal.…

VMware Vcloud Director Transfer Spooling Area is not Writable

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

Vcloud Director – Transfer Spooling Area is not writable If you have your vcloud director cells setup to use shared NFS storage and you do not have the correct permissions on the mount point folder, you will run into this error: Error starting application: Transfer spooling area is not writable: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer You can see this error message if you tail the cell.log…