How to fix VMware Cloud Director 10.4.x bug that slingshots VM’s across clusters

Introduction This week I have been troubleshooting a fresh issue that I came across in our environment. We have recently upgraded one of our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments to version 10.4.0. This version of VCD brings loads of new enhancements that we loved and wanted to use after the …

How to resolve the VMware Cloud Director 10.4.x console issues after upgrading

Introduction Just a couple of months ago during the summer VMware Cloud Director (VCD) released a brand new version in the form of VCD 10.4 and now in december 10.4.1! Both of the releases feel like a major release with the big change in the Console Proxy loadbalancing technique, Photon …

Don’t forget to do this one thing while upgrading to Workspace ONE Access 22.09!

Introduction If you can remember I’ve made a blogpost quite recently about the issues that got up when we updated one of our Workspace ONE Access instances to 21.08. Our entire ElastichSearch engine eventually got in read-only mode which prevented us from using the product like we should be able …

How to fix a Workspace ONE Access malfunctioning Elasticsearch application

Introduction Recently we were in a situation in which we upgraded one of our Workspace ONE Access (formerly known as VMware Identity Manager) environments to the at that moment newest version 21.08 (Release notes here). All in all the upgrade went fine, however it seems that after the upgrade we …

VMware Cloud Director datastore thresholds prevent deploying more virtual machines

Today I want to talk about an issue we’ve encountered within our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environment before. I figured it might be usefull for everybody that is looking at this problem in their environment. The situtation is as follows: You or your customers are trying to extent an existing …

UsageMeter not sending data to vCloud Usage Insight

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 …

Nested ESXi 7 interoperability with ESXi 6.7

The nested ESXi appliances that William Lam provides to the community are great resources for testing. But what about interoperability? Can you run a nested ESXi 7 VM on a ESXi 6.7 server? Unfortunately the answer is; it depends. We can’t all be early adopters right? I currently work in …

How to recover from deleted VM files

Recently I found my self having to recover a VM that had most of it’s files deleted. They were removed by a script that was intended to clean up a staging datastore. Unfortunately the VM in question was left on that staging datastore and the script did it’s magic. The …

How to fix VCD 10.2.2 not starting anymore after reboot

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 …