Cloud Director – ConfigMgr

Cloud Director VM compliancy

30 november 2023 Cloud Director VMware

If you create a VM in VMware Cloud Director you can choose a compute policy (T-shirt size) and/or placement policy. With a placement policy, you can control where the VM should run. This can be useful for VMs with a specific OS (Windows) where you want to pin them on…

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…