Today we have another UsageMeter issue I would like to discuss with everybody. I’ve been using UsageMeter since the old days so I’ve seen pretty much everything there is. But this time I was surprised to learn something new on these things. Last month while I was reporting our UsageMeter …
Introduction Last week VMware has release VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.3.3. After a small wait from the previous 10.3.2a version but this version was the one I was lingering for! This release would have fixed a lot of the operational issues we have on the environment, which I will post …
Sometimes you come across a couple of older environments that haven’t received the amount of love you should give them. I came across one NSX-V environment that had an expired certificate on the NSX Manager. Renewing a NSX Manager certificate is one of the easiest things to do on a …
Recently we had to upgrade a couple of our VMware Usage Meter environments. VMware Usage Meter is a tool that monitors all VMware based software solutions on the licences they are using. These numbers are used to report your license usage to your aggregator. This piece of software is mostly …
This blogpost will be featured in a couple of blogs from the same Series called VMware Cloud Director Availabilty. With this series I want to teach everybody that is visiting these blogs how to install the full blown, and On-Premise environment(s). I hope everybody enjoys these as much as I …
Introduction It’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog. We’ve been extremely busy on our day to day jobs, but that does not mean that we are losing focus or that we don’t have anything to write about! Today I got another great quick blog for you guys surrounding …
This issue has happened to me quite some times now. I’ve had multiple VCD environments where the root account magically closed up and/or the account simply expired. This resulted in a boat load of issues that were not easy to understand at first, until I had a look at the …
Recently we were having a strange issue on our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.2.1 environment. Within this environment we want our tenants to be able to share their Organization Networks from one Org VDC to another. This is useful if you have a management Org VDC in which some networks …
Introduction The other day we were updating one of our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments from 10.1 to 10.2.2 (the latest release as of now). The VCD upgrade all went perfectly fine and was finished within 30 minutes. Once this was done I started to do a healthcheck on every …
Introduction I have another interesting VMware Cloud Director (VCD) issue for everybody. On one of our VCD 10.1.x environments we were having issues editing and/or cloning roles outside of the default “System Administrator” role. The issue manifested itself and was reproducable by doing the following: Open up the VCD interface …
