Software
Building a sandbox requires planning
Nov 14th
I mean it.
6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth.
This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong?
Monitoring and measurement software, the search
Oct 11th
While at VMworld 2011, I spent a lot of time at the expo (where companies were peddling their wares) looking for 2 items.
- Storage vendors who do things via NFS.
- Monitoring and measurement companies to help me consolidate the multiple pieces of software we run today.
This post is about #2.
I looked at a ton of software while at VMworld and more once I got back and I had fallen in love with LogicMonitor, found via a google search.
I also looked at a bunch of things once I got back, but LogicMonitor still keeps on winning on everything technical for us.
Understands things like VMware (vCenter and ESXi via SDK), SNMP devices (including device specific items like F5 extensions, Fortigate), measurement of data from Apache, MySQL (and I assume other databases), etc.
I’ll write more later, need to finish up my slightly extended beta test and work on the alerting function.
Check them out, so far so good.
vCloud Director 1.5 cannot upload files error
Sep 5th
Let’s say you have your vCloud Director cells behind a load balancer.
You try to upload your files (.iso and .ovf images for either a vApp or media and receive an error message like:
Error: Transferring files
On page 98 of the vdc_15_admin_guide.pdf you will find a paragraph pointing out that you need to fill in the API field for uploads to work.
During the initial configuration of each cloud cell, you specified an HTTP service IP address. By default, vCloud Director uses that address in the XML responses from the REST API and as the upload target for the transfer service (for uploading vApp templates and media). To use a different address, specify a public REST API base URL.
I had missed that in my new setup of vCloud Director 1.5 and a helpful VMware employee answered my questions in the Communities.
Install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts
Sep 5th
According to the install documentation, VMware vSphere 4 ESX and ESXi 4.1 update 1 are supported.
Install or upgrade to vCloud Director 1.5 will fail with the following error when trying to add the provider vDC:
Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os
This is easily fixed by editing the database table [os_id] and inserting the relevant information.
