Context: Uploading a 230G OVF to vCD

We got a fail on this and the logs are not clear on cause and effect. Says a timeout but another part says it could not find the session.

Aborted at the 3hr 20m mark.

Coming from a Lab Manager context, we ran into the 7200 second upload time before an adjusted it.

Under vCD the help has

"Transfer session timeout
Miscellaneous
Amount of time to wait before failing a paused or canceled upload task, for example upload media or upload vApp template. This timeout does not affect upload tasks that are in progress.
"

Now the value is 60 minutes.

>> What is not clear is if this is a generic timeout OR a timeout ONLY related to a pause or cancel ?

(the later meaning the upload time is unlimited? however there is a 24hr "maximum timeout")

The last disk copied (PUT/transfer), being the last disk has a timestamp 64 minutes before the abort.

The logs have "Unable to retrieve OVF descriptor" - not sure if this cause or affect.

Also "Resource 005001-5001-W7-CE-BLD730-A-disk1.vmdk not fully transferred yet"

The logging is at two extremes, too little at the GUI level, and too much at the log level.

Thanks

I'm a current Lab Manager user and planning to move to vCloud Director 5.1.

In Lab Manager, the VMs would receive an External IP address assigned from a pool of addresses when using the fenced NAT'd option.  The big complaint is how the External IP would change each time the VMs were undeployed and redeployed.

In the latest version of vCloud Director, I assume there is an option for similar fenced NAT'd networking on the VMs.

Can anyone comment on whether or not the External IP adddresses change whenever the VMs are powered on/off and/or undeployed/redeployed?

Any info would be much appreciated.   Thanks.

Hi everyone,

Using VCD 1.5, initiating a VApp from a Template works fine for me. Adding a VM to an existing empty VApp was a next task, but I tried to recompose the VApp with no success.

I used the RecomposeVAppParams Block from two other Discussions, but it doesn't help either.

The error is the following: message="The VCD entity network "SupportNet" specified for VM "W7-64Test" does not exist." The existing VM in the Source-href is working well and exists in a VAppTemplate. The OrgNetwork "SupportNet" exists too.

While calling the method recomposeVApp I sent the following XML-Body and used an existing VApp, which is completely empty.

<RecomposeVAppParams xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:environment_1="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1">
  <SourcedItem sourceDelete="false">
    <Source href="https://vcd.iscinternal.com/api/vApp/vm-a1a941a6-c06b-4b89-8e45-5ac6050a345f" name="test2"/>
    <InstantiationParams>
      <NetworkConnectionSection ovf:required="false">
        <ovf:Info>Specifies the available VM network connections</ovf:Info>
        <NetworkConnection network="SupportNet" needsCustomization="false">
          <NetworkConnectionIndex>0</NetworkConnectionIndex>
          <IpAddress>192.168.0.23</IpAddress>
          <IsConnected>false</IsConnected>
          <IpAddressAllocationMode>MANUAL</IpAddressAllocationMode>
        </NetworkConnection>
      </NetworkConnectionSection>
    </InstantiationParams>
    <NetworkAssignment innerNetwork="PXE BOOT" containerNetwork="SupportNet321"/>
  </SourcedItem>
</RecomposeVAppParams>

Thanks,

Tom

I am trying to recompose a vapp; adding a vm from a template and adding ANY type of network to the instantiation params.  I get a generic 'Unable to perform this action. Contact your cloud administrator.' error when I have ANY type of instantion param section for recompose vapp.  When I remove the element, it works (tried isolated, nat, bridged)... here's one example:

Hi every one
I am required to set up a private cloud for my organization. I am dealing with vsphere esxi5.1 for more than one month. I made virtual machines and installed different os on each of the VMs. Now it is time to assign privilages to users to connect to the VMs remotely. I found web client and web access from vmware team, but I am thinking what is vCloud then. Is is the application for setting up a private cloud as mentioned in wikipedia or I can go on with the esxi?

Hi,

I extended VCD API and create my own  VCD API extension, for testing I call it through “fire fox Rest client” it works properly. Now I want to write JAVA code to call this VCD API extension programmatically, how I can do that. I am not find any reference document or sample code for the same.

Any idea how to achieve this ?

--avr

I have two instances that I need to relocate from the host they are running on to a less loaded host in the vcd cluster.

How does one relocate an instance from one host to another when using vcloud director 1.5?

Thanks for any help!

In "My Cloud," all of the "live thumbnails" of the vApps are visible.  When I open a Console, I get "Connecting..." then "Disconnected" and a black screen.

Our cells are in a DMZ with two logical interfaces on one vNIC (one for HTTP and one for VMRC), with static routes back through a firewall to our ESX and vCenter VLANs.  Pinging and lookups are fine and we've opened the ports in the VMware docs.

My suspicion is that it has to do with DNS.  If I hit those DMZ cells from the management/protected VLAN, I can open the Remote Console just fine.

One odd thing is that I recently got an error, when testing remotely, that the server was "unable to find [the DNS name of our vCenter server]" after a failed Remote Console attempt.

I know how dependent vCD is on good DNS management, so I'm sure it's something simple.  Any help is, as always, geratly appreciated.

Let me briefly explain my question.  I have virtual machines in my Vmware Server (Free version) and would like to know if I can convert them into vcloud director version.

Originally we used the free vmware server to test our private cloud prior to purchasing full blown vcloud director.  Now we have our VCD up and running and humming, and we want to take two of the images from the free version and convert to the necessary VMDK to successfully upload into VCD.

Is this possible to convert to VCD using the VCenter Converter?

thanks

As you are all aware there are various Databases required during installation for all sorts of things.

Virtual center, Update manager, Anti Virus, vCloud Director, Chargeback etc and the list goes on.

My question is how many SQL servers should I use within the solution for these?

The SQL servers will be virtualised within a management cluster but my SQL team want to house all DBs on a single server.

I had spread the load across a couple of SQL servers as to me it seems easier to load balance a couple of 4 proc servers than a single 8 proc server with a large amount of RAM.

I wondered what everyone else does with their designs??

Thanks

hi

i want to deploy vCloud Director but i need VMware Distrubed Switch and DRS licences avalaible by vSphere Entreprise Plus , there is a verssion of  vSphere Entreprise Plus licence free

Thanks

Hello,

I have the following configuration:

VCD 5.1.1

VSM 5.1.1

Vcenter 5.0 update 1

ESXi 5.0 update1

When trying to create an Edge gateway in the VCD GUI, I got the following error:

Can you not use vCloud director to deploy a edge gateway that has SSL VPN capability?  I know if I deploy a stand alone edge gateway outside vcloud director I can.  thanks

-Craig

Hi

We are on v5.10, has anyone done the upgrade yet? Is it painless ?

Not stated in the upgrade guide but i assume you don't need to install v5.11 first ?

Thanks

Hi,

Hi I am following the vCloude director evaluation guide 5.1 to setup my private cloud. I am having a problem when I am trying to upload an ISO image to vcloud director. The upload progress bar shows that the transfer is complete and successful , however when i look in the catalogs tab i see error (Internal Server Error). The following is the log of the failing transaction:

2013-04-01 21:46:21,589 | DEBUG    | eadedActivitySupervisor@510e6505-pool-supervisor-5 | ReceivingSocketImpl            | Resource file not fully transferred yet (46,137,344/4,289,386,496) |
2013-04-01 21:46:21,590 | DEBUG    | eadedActivitySupervisor@510e6505-pool-supervisor-5 | ReceivingSocketImpl            | Resource file not fully transferred yet (10,485,760/4,289,386,496) |
2013-04-01 21:46:22,263 | DEBUG    | VsmEventListener-10.134.45.237 | EventListener                  | Event -1 received with event code : 210,001 |
2013-04-01 21:46:22,263 | DEBUG    | VsmEventListener-10.134.45.237 | EventListener                  | Event code 210,001 will be handled by class com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.nsm.event.handlers.KeepAliveEventHandler  |
2013-04-01 21:46:22,320 | ERROR    | sf-activity-pool-36       | CreateFromImportActivity       | CreateFromImport: copyContents failed |
com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.service.InternalServerErrorException: Internal Server Error
    at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.media.impl.MediaUtils.copyContents(MediaUtils.java:139)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.media.impl.CreateFromImportActivity$CopyPhase.invoke(CreateFromImportActivity.java:155)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.foundation.activity.executors.ActivityRunner.run(ActivityRunner.java:123)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.NfcClientFacadeImpl$Transfer.run(NfcClientFacadeImpl.java:166)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.NfcClientFacadeImpl.putFile(NfcClientFacadeImpl.java:217)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:309)
    at org.springframework.osgi.service.importer.support.internal.aop.ServiceInvoker.doInvoke(ServiceInvoker.java:58)
    at org.springframework.osgi.service.importer.support.internal.aop.ServiceInvoker.invoke(ServiceInvoker.java:62)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:131)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:119)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.osgi.service.util.internal.aop.ServiceTCCLInterceptor.invokeUnprivileged(ServiceTCCLInterceptor.java:56)
    at org.springframework.osgi.service.util.internal.aop.ServiceTCCLInterceptor.invoke(ServiceTCCLInterceptor.java:39)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.osgi.service.importer.support.LocalBundleContextAdvice.invoke(LocalBundleContextAdvice.java:59)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:131)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:119)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
    at $Proxy232.putFile(Unknown Source)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.fabric.storage.copy.impl.UploadDatastoreFilesActivity$CopyFilesPhase.invoke(UploadDatastoreFilesActivity.java:91)
    ... 7 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
    at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
    at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.OutputRecord.writeBuffer(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.OutputRecord.write(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecordInternal(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(Unknown Source)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.ChunkedOutputStream.flushCacheWithAppend(ChunkedOutputStream.java:121)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.ChunkedOutputStream.write(ChunkedOutputStream.java:179)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.common.http.ProgressReportingRequestEntity.writeRequest(ProgressReportingRequestEntity.java:183)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.EntityEnclosingMethod.writeRequestBody(EntityEnclosingMethod.java:499)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.writeRequest(HttpMethodBase.java:2114)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.execute(HttpMethodBase.java:1096)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:398)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:171)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397)
    at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:346)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.HttpNfcClientSession.executeMethod(HttpNfcClientSession.java:331)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.HttpNfcClientSession.putFile(HttpNfcClientSession.java:309)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.NfcClientFacadeImpl$1.execute(NfcClientFacadeImpl.java:213)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.NfcClientFacadeImpl$1.execute(NfcClientFacadeImpl.java:209)
    at com.vmware.vcloud.val.nfc.client.impl.NfcClientFacadeImpl$Transfer.run(NfcClientFacadeImpl.java:139)
    ... 30 more

Can you please assist with this issue?

Regards

AF

Hi

I've build a vCloud environment for internal use by our own consultants for testing and playing with new products. Since we don't need performance, I've enabled Fast Cloning and Thin Provisioning for the only OrgVDC in use and I'm very surprised by how soon vCloud starts complaining about not enough space available.

It "feels" as if always the full clones and full disk sizes are used in calculations instead of at least allowing a little over commitment of storage.

Let me show you all the layers:

VMFS info from vCloud admin page:

VMFS041 = Total Cap 1068GB - Used Cap 143GB - Available Cap  925GB - Provisioned Cap 638GB - Requested Storage 258GB

VMFS042 = Total Cap 2046GB - Used Cap 766GB - Available Cap 1280GB - Provisioned Cap 3713GB - Requested Storage 1668GB

VMFS043 = Total Cap 1023GB - Used Cap 104GB - Available Cap  919GB - Provisioned Cap 262GB - Requested Storage 239GB

These are combined into a storage profile named "Normal IO - R5"

The three datastores are 4137GB in total of which 1013GB is used.

At Org level, there is on OrgVDC-Consultants using the Pay-as-you-Go model. When i open the properties page of the OrgVDC-Consultant, I can see that the storage profile has an "unlimited allocation" and 2214GB used allocation. Thin Provisioning and Fast Provisioning have both been enabled.

Would seem rather healthy, using only 1013GB of 4137GB but still vCloud seems to have come to a halt. When trying to add a 2nd nic to an existing VM, I get this error:

Hi

>> Does anyone know if there is a KB or whitepaper on IMPORT guidance with respect to the the content of the .vmx => OVF parameters ?

i.e. either an edit of the .vmx file or some options in the ovftool

There is a guide "

VMware vCenter Lab Manager® to VMware vCloud®

Director Migration" which i have a copy of, byt can't find the URL now, which references going through vcenter then to vcd.

We are not doing this for two reasons :

- difficulty getting IT who control permissions to do this
- the fact that some Lab Manager VMs don't import to vCenter with obscure errors as well (e.g. you need to remove a network card ref or the like for it to work)

In a previous thread, Re: ovftool -diskmode IMPORT to vCD context  i was told the ovftool switches are not important,

i did not see guidance on a OVFtool option that vets / reports things that vCD will not like.

We are finding IMPORT of OVF failing for no reason and be believe they are related to some items vCD does not like.

Thanks

hi all,

i working on vmware virtualization for an year and half now, i want to plan learning vCloud, when i was watching videos, i came to know that it is like creating virtual datacenters for the vms created in vShpere or vCenter. My doubt is when we can create separate datacenters in vCenter itself then what is the use of vCloud Director Of course i saw lots of features of it, but what is the actual purpose of creating datacenters again from the vms of vcenter.

Please explain any one in simple i'll start working on it.

thanks in advance.

hi,

i work with vmware vcloud director appliance,i want to create a private cloud ,i configure vcloud  appliance but i found some error like:

" The host  is managed by another  vCloud Director system "vcloud director". Unprepare the host from the other system or uninstall the agent software on the host."

i try to prepare the host but i can't

what's the solution??

i also create Vapp and virtual machine in the vcloud appliance  but the creation is failed " The operation failed because no suitable resource was found."

haw can i  correct it??

please help me and thank you for advance