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In this article, I will guide you through who to change password length for local administrator when using Guest OS Customization. The security team is not satisfied with the current 8-character password policy for local administrator accounts in VMware Cloud Director (vCD). They consider it inadequate for protecting against modern threats and recommend enforcing a…
Broadcom recently announced the release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. This is more than just vSphere—it’s a comprehensive modern private cloud platform that enables you to build, operate, consume, and protect your infrastructure with greater efficiency and control. I’ve already installed ESXi 9.0 on my 4 nodes, ADD 2x4TB disk with NVME controller Hardware SPEC:…
In this article, I will guide you through resolving The operation failed because no suitable resource was found. “Does not contain any suitable ESXi hosts” while Adding/extending disks. Getting following error message when Adding/extending disks. Symptoms Not able to add a new disk to VM. Rejected hubs: resgroup-16514 – PlacementException NO_FEASIBLE_PLACEMENT_SOLUTION Cause vm/host group DRS…
In this article, I will guide you through the steps to resolve the power on vm issue on the vCloud Director Symptoms: Migration fails when it is carried out from cluster/resourcepool A to cluster/resourcepool B or vice versa . Cause: This issue is caused due to incorrect/stale resourcepool reference in the provider VDC table. Resolution:…
In this article, I will guide you through the steps to resolve the storage container issue. Recently, I noticed that the storage cluster was missing from the storage container in vCloud Director. I verified that the storage cluster exists in vCenter, but it does not appear in vCloud Director. I reviewed several log files but…
In this article, I will guide you through resolving the issue of creating a Provider VDC While onboarding a new customer to a tenant in vCloud Director, I had already created a new cluster in vCenter and logged into vCloud Director to create a new Provider VDC. However, I noticed that no Provider VDC was…
In this article, I am going to guide you how to fix outgoing replication stuck at 0% in VMware Cloud Director Availability. Symptoms Replication sync status stuck at 0% Errors in log file /opt/vmware/h4/replicator/log/replicator.log Cause This issue occurs replication of VMS which does have vtpm device or encrypted core files. Solution we need to install…
In this article, I am going to guide you how to implement workaround to reconnect vCenter in vCloud Director Symptoms 2023-10-19 07:14:02,188 | DEBUG | pc-activity-pool-24520 | CJob | updateFailedJob(com.vmware.ssdc.util.LMException) with locale=null |com.vmware.ssdc.util.LMException: Error caused vCenter Server disconnect …
In this article, I am going to guide you how Patching of VMware vCloud Director Check about the interoperability matrix for other VMware products in the stack and other products that are integrated into vcd before patching pre-reg: This will result in the customer not being able to create VMs or perform other tasks. Turn…
CLI NOT showing same BUILD ID as what is showing in vCenter VAMI. by running vpxd -v to get version and login to VAMI to verify vCenter version. Solution: cd /storage/core/software-update 1. Take a backup before doing any manual workaround (For ALL vcenter is case there is a link mode activated) 2. Try update again,…