Troubleshooting
How to fix VMware Cloud Director relocate task timeouts
Fixing relocate taskt timeouts in VCD was never easier. Read the blog to find out.
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How to delete invisible RT based VM’s in VMware Cloud Director
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 VCD. However, there is not much documentation online that explains Read more
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Changing the Cloud Director DB dstore_moref value in bulk
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.
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How to fix a new VMware Cloud Director bug not being able to edit VM settings
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 am here to help. Lately we’ve encountered a situation in Read more
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How to fix VMware Cloud Director ‘Index 0 out of bounds for length 0 error’
Introduction The other day we received a fresh new warning in VMware Cloud Director (VCD) while editing a VM to add more disk space. The request failed with an java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 out of bounds for length 0 message. In this blogpost I will discuss how to fix this issue. Read more
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VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1 database bug causing strange issues
Introduction The other day we upgraded our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environment. The upgrade itself did not go so well for us, but I will discuss this in another blogpost. However this blogpost is for a specific bug which came up on our environment after the upgrade. The bug manifested Read more
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How to fix the new VMware Cloud Director 10.4.x bug that crashes your cells
Introduction We are back at it again with another blogpost for VMware Cloud Director (VCD)! This week we were working on a new issue in our environment, that was again a new not yet discovered bug in the VCD 10.4.x branch. This time we found out that if editing existing Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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Error while editing a VMware Cloud Director vAPP with networks
Introduction Lately I have been into the seperation of permissions in one of our VMware Cloud Director (VCD) environments. This means that instead of giving everybody a Provider Administrator account, I want to provide a form of Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and provide users with the correct amount of Read more