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Power ON vm issue on vCloud Director

December 17, 2024December 15, 2024Bezar Ghazi

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:…

Storage Containers disappear when when new datastore added to Storage DRS

December 1, 2024December 1, 2024Bezar Ghazi

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…

Not able to create Provider VDC

September 30, 2024December 1, 2024Bezar Ghazi

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…

VMware Cloud Director Availability sync stuck at 0%

July 25, 2024December 1, 2024Bezar Ghazi

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…

vCenter gets disconnected in vCloud Director

February 22, 2024December 1, 2024Bezar Ghazi

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 …

Mismatch of vCenter version between CLI and VAMI

September 2, 2023December 1, 2024Bezar Ghazi

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,…

VMware Cloud Director Log Bundle collection failes

April 13, 2023December 1, 2024Bezar Ghazi

In this article, I am going to guide you how to solve/workaround VMware Cloud Director Log Bundle collection issue. Due to support tech case i wanted to collect log bundle but it’s failed and i get following error message Symptoms ERROR | Failed to collect logs from multiple cells Checking log files located under /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs. first i…

vCloud director audit to syslog (loginsight)

November 30, 2022December 1, 2024Bezar GhaziLeave a comment

vCloud director audit to syslog (loginsight) In this article, I am going to guide you how to send audit logs from vCloud director to syslog in my case loginsight. vCloud director shows audit for last 30 days but log data remains in database for 90 days. Exporting logs to a syslog server is recommended for…