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Connecting to Cloud Director using API Token

17 oktober 2023 Cloud Director VMware

When you log in to VMware Cloud Director you can use a username and password. But for automation purposes like Terraform, this is not very user-friendly. For this kind of applications, you can use API access tokens. From https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.4/VMware-Cloud-Director-Tenant-Portal-Guide/GUID-A1B3B2FA-7B2C-4EE1-9D1B-188BE703EEDE.html: Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1, you can generate and issue…

Bringing Cloud Director resources under the control of Terraform

4 oktober 2023 Cloud Director VMware

This week I was busy creating some virtual datacenters in VMware Cloud Director with Hashicorp Terraform. Everything was fine until a colleague made some manual changes in the environment. Now, the state file of Terraform was no longer up-to-date and I had to come up with a way to get…

Cloud Director VAMI Setup – NFS Errors

4 september 2023 Cloud Director Solutions VMware

Today we got some complaints from users about slow VMware Cloud Director tasks. It took 40 minutes to create a VM, 10 minutes to power off, and 10 minutes to eject media. Not good! Not good at all! After logging in to the VAMI of the primary cell we noticed…

VCDA – Operation canceled

5 juni 2023 Cloud Director Solutions VMware

I was working on setting up a protection from an on-prem vCenter to a cloud site running VMware Cloud Director but whatever I did, I received an error message “Operation canceled due to an unexpected error”. From my point of view, an error is always unexpected, but I wanted to…