What is vCAC?
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Log Locations of all VMware Products
In this post I tried consolidating all the VMware product’s log location for handy use. vCenter vCenter 6.0 vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Inventory service vSphere Web Client service vCenter Single Sign-On 5.1 vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 VMware Converter vCloud Director vShield Manager vShield Edge vCloud Usage Meter vCloud Connector vCenter Operations vRealize Automation Suite 6.x vCenter Orchestrator
vCenter Appliance upgrade failed
I was trying to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 to vCSA 5.1, there is no inplace upgrade since vCSA 5.0 uses IBM DB2 as a DB and vCSA 5.1 use VMware vPostgres DB , so the only available option is migrate the DB Steps for Upgrade Keep the vCSA 5.0 Powered on –> Deploy new
VMware vSphere ESXi Commands for everyday use
In this post, I tried listing down all commands that I use everyday for ESXi Troubleshooting. I have categorized the commands for easy accessibility. I find these commands are very useful when the ESXi host disconnected from vCenter and when not able to connect to vSphere Client. [toggle type=”first” title=”Virtual Machine Operations”] To get All
Usage Meter 3.2 Import data fails
Look at the old post for How to upgrade UM to 3.2 . In this post I will cover the error faced while upgrade. When I was importing the data from old appliance, I got below error Connection closed by remote host To dig this error in detail, I trid to ssh to old appliance [code]ssh [email protected][/code]
Upgrading vCloud Usage Meter 3.2 / 3.3 / 3.5
In this post, I will walk you through how to upgrade to UM3.2 / 3.3. Upgrading Usage meter 3.2 / 3.3 from Usage Meter 2.3.2 to 3.1.0 Upgrading Usage meter 3.3 from Usage Meter 3.2 Upgrading Usage meter 3.2 / 3.3 from Usage Meter 2.3.2 to 3.1.0 UM3.2 supports import data from following versions
vCloud Startup Issue
vCD service fails to start for numerous reasons, if you understand what exactly it requires to start the vCD service then you may resolve the issues. I tried explaining what happens when you start the vCloud director services. Below is the workflow that I understood from my experience Start-up Flow: vCloud Director uses JAVA OSGI,
vCloud Director Troubleshooting.
I started working with vCloud director from its initial release (vCloud 1.0) and I was thinking to write an article about the vCloud director troubleshooting for very long time but finally vCloud director(vCD) is going to die oops..I.e it is getting better and better , have a look at below articles http://longwhiteclouds.com/2013/12/07/vmware-vcloud-director-is-dead-long-live-vcloud-director/ http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2057589
How to backup and restore of vCloud Usage Meter DB
Backup / Restore of vCloud Usage Meter DB In this post, I explained how to backup/restore the vCloud Usage meter DB that I found through surfing, collectively it took me more than 60+ minutes to find the steps. Any one can use this post regardless of the Usage Meter version. To Backup: – Login