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 can hold several physical backed vSphere Clusters on the back-end 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 VCD. However, there is not much documentation online that explains Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Introduction In this blogpost I want to explain how to use an open source load balancer called HAProxy in conjunction with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) version 10.3.x and below. Like many of you might know, VCD is mostly deployed in a clustered manner. Which means that atleast 3 cells have Read more