In this quick blog post, I’ll go over how to reset the root password on How to reset the root password on VMware Cloud Director on v10.6. There’s been a slight change compared to previous versions, so here’s what’s new. In earlier versions, we used the pam_tally2 command to reset failed login attempts. However, with [...]
It’s been a while since I last covered VMware Cloud Director here on the blog, but after spending the last couple of weeks working intensively with vCD and NSX, I decided it was time to revisit it. In this post, VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 – What’s New and How to Upgrade, we'll explore the key changes [...]
Today, I had a storage issue, and all my VMs crashed. One of those VMs was my VMware Cloud Director (vCD). After resolving the storage problem and rebooting the VM, I noticed that vCD did not start properly. Checking the services, I found that some failed with errors, preventing vCD from functioning. In this VMware Cloud [...]
In this What is VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery(VCDR) blog post, we will discuss what VCDR is and how it works. This SaaS solution offers optimized costs, accelerated ransomware recovery, and even allows for a 30-minute RPO (recovery point objective) so that you can get back to business quickly. In this blog post, we'll dive into [...]
In my previous, I wrote about my first encounter with Veeam in production and a story about why it was essential to backup all your Virtual Infrastructure, something that was not on the mind of many administrators at the beginning of Virtual Infrastructures. I started this Veeam Stories series, and the plan was to write [...]
In the last few days, I have been upgrading some of vCloud Director 9.7 and 10.2 to 10.4.x and found some problems with IP and hostname certificates. We discuss a similar error in this Cloud Director upgrade 10.4 NSX names matching IP error. I have discussed similar vCD errors before here, like this one HERE. [...]
In this blog post about vCloud Director v10.3 vs NSX-T error Certificate is already trusted, I talk about an issue that is new when you install a new vCloud Director v10.3, or you upgrade your existing vCD to v10.3. In a new vCD install, when you try to add your NSX-T (or V), you will [...]
In this deploy vCloud Director 10.2.x domain search_path issue I will talk about an issue, personally a bug, in vCD 10.2x. In previous versions of vCD, when deploying vCloud Director, after we add our domain, the parameter domain search path is not mandatory. And why is that, because vCD will assume our domain as its [...]
Sometimes we need to change IP addresses in our systems, and some are easy than others. In his blog post, we will discuss how to change the IP address in a vCloud Director. I will show how to change the IP address in a vCloud Director in a Linux vCD and a vCD Appliance. Environment: [...]
This blog post vCloud Director Migrations: Linux vCD to vCD Appliance – Part 3 is the third and final part of my blog post series about vCloud Director migrations. In the first part, I migrated a Linux vCD with an external SQL Server DB to a Linux vCD with an embedded PostgresSQL DB. I migrated [...]
