When creating NAT and firewall rules in a vCloud environment, not everything works out directly the way you had planned. This post will show you how to use Splunk to collect sys logs from the vCloud environment and make it an easy to use tool when performing some network troubleshooting. Splunk comes in a number […]
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VMware vCloud error: Batch update returned unexpected row
Ran into a bit of a weird issue the other day. Suddenly non of my vApps could be started and all I got back was the following errors: “Batch update returned unexpected row count from update [0]; actual row count: 0; expected: 1” (See screenshot). Some google searches didn’t give any results related to VMware, […]
VMware vCloud Transfer spooling area is not writable
In a two cell vCloud setup I was having trouble booting the second cell when the first cell was already running. When investigating this issue I noticed that there was something wrong with the permissions on the transfer directory. In the cell.log files I found the following error: “Transfer spooling area is not writable”. The transfer […]
Change IP address of VMware vCloud Cell
For an existing environment I had to change the VLAN and IP address that was used on the VMware vCloud 5.1 Cell. In VMware KB 1028657 is written how to change the IP address in the database and in the vCloud Cell config, but there is no mention of how to do this at Linux […]
Rethink using vCloud Director 5.1 with just vSphere Enterprise license
Customer of mine was running vSphere with Enterprise licenses and wanted to extend his environment with vCloud Director. Since the minimal requirement for vCloud Director 5.1 is a vSphere Enteprise license, we did some checking on what features would be left out when using just an Enterprise license instead of Enterprise Plus. The environment is […]