Introduction I’ve been playing around with the VCF HoloDeck tookit lately to explore how we would like to use VCF. This toolkit provides a fully automated way of deploying VCF in a lab environment so you can learn and play Read more
Introduction Welcome to the last post for 2025! I encountered a strange issue a couple of months ago and never came around creating a blog for it until now. This post will be a bit lengthy and will have several Read more
Introduction Once in a while you will have to remove a Resource Pool (vSphere Cluster in vCenter Server) in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). In this specific case we are using Elastic Provider VDC’s (pVDC’s). This means that a single pVDC Read more
Fixing relocate taskt timeouts in VCD was never easier. Read the blog to find out.
Introduction Recently we had to upgrade a lot of our Usage Meter estate from version 4.8 to version 9. After the upgrade, we had a lot of Usage Meters that did not complete collections correctly. It did not seem we Read more
Introduction Starting last month Broadcom announced the general availability for a new version of VMware Usage Meter. This time we were required to upgrade from v4.8 to v9 (inline with the upcoming VCF 9 release). This upgrade is mandatory for Read more
Introduction Starting with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.5 VMware made a new construct possible within the product. A replication tracking (RT) VM object. This is something that users that have seen VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) do and use within Read more
As co-author Bryan described in great detail a situation can occur where the dstore_moref value of a VM in the cloud director database is empty. Preventing you from making any changes to that VM. Read all about it in this post: How to fix VMware Cloud Director ‘Index 0 out of bounds for length 0 error’ Recently I encountered that same issue but upon inspection I learned that the cloud director database had not one but quite a lot of VMs that had this symptom. This lead me to create a more extensive SQL query to solve this issue for all VMs.
Introduction It’s been a bit quiet lately on the blog! However that changes now that I’ve found a new bug in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The bug is not yet known nor is there a KB for it, however I Read more
Introduction The other day we were upgrading our VMware NSX environment to a fresh new version from 3.x to 4.x. After the upgrade, the first login we encountered many NSX Corfu certificates as expired from the alarm screen as can Read more