Introduction We recently stood up a fresh vSphere 8.0 Update 3 environment. Since it was a clean start, we decided we did not want to drag the old Host Profiles feature along with us anymore, and instead go with the Read more
Introduction Once in a while you’ll need to decommission an Organization in VMware Cloud Director (VCD), for example when a tenant leaves. Recently while doing this for a tenant, let’s call it CustomerA, the delete of the Org and its Read more
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.