Migrating from vCloud Director 9.5 with an SQL Database to the vCloud Director 9.7 Appliance

In a previous post I outlined how to migrate your existing vCloud SQL Database over to a PostgreSQL Database. It's not too difficult but you do need to deploy and configure the PostgreSQL server itself first, so there are a few steps involved. Then I thought what about the people that haven't moved over to …

vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.1 for vCloud Director – Part 2

In a previous post I went through the base installation of vRealize Operations Manager 7 and also a deployment of RabbitMQ on a separate CentOS 7 VM. Now it's time to install the Management Pack and the vRealize Tenant App for vCloud Director. To begin the first thing we need to do it download the …

RabbitMQ Installation on CentOS 7

RabbitMQ is a messaging broker service which gives applications a common platform to send and receive messages. The messages themselves land in a queue ready for another application to retrieve. In this post I will be setting up RabbitMQ and connecting it to vCloud Director. This is required if you have a multi-cell environment configured …

vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.1 for vCloud Director – Part 1

vCloud Director is one of the products I really enjoy working with and it has come a long way from when it was first released. I remember trying to work through deploying the early releases of v1 and 1.5 which seems like a life time ago now. In my opinion one thing it has always …

vCenter 6.5 Windows Server to vCenter 6.7 Appliance Migration Guide

For those of you out there running a windows based vCenter 6.5 Server I thought I would put together a guide to help you with your migration to the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. The following post will walk you through migrating your Windows based Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server to two separate 6.7 Appliances. Update …

vCenter 6.7 Server Appliance – Install Guide

I thought I would take it back to basics for this next post. Getting vCenter installed is a must do job for most IT Admins out there so below is a an install guide for the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. This will also help us build a foundation for some future posts if your following along …

Migrating your vCloud Director 9.5 SQL Database to PostgreSQL

Before you start the migration its a good idea to snapshot the vCloud Director cells and manually backup the SQL database. Next you need to stop the vCloud Director services. You do this by connecting to each cell via SSH and running the following command. Service vmware-vcd stop Next we need to browse to the …

PostgreSQL Deployment for use with vCloud Director

A quick guide on how to install PostgreSQL 10 on Centos 7. vCloud Director 9.5 officially supports PostgreSQL 10 and I thought I would setup a new database server to migrate my existing vCloud SQL database over too. VMware recommends the database server is built with 16 GB of memory, 100 GB storage, and 4 …

Renaming Nodes in VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7

Login to vRealize Operations Manager via the admin interface https://vROPS-Server/admin Under System Status select the node and click the Take Offline button The following prompt will appear, enter your reason and click Ok The status will then change to Offline Login to the vRealize Operations Manager as the root user via the console or SSH. …

How to Reset the Root Password in vRealize Operations Manager 7

The following process will help you reset the vRealize Operations Manager 7 root password. If you have locked the account out attempting to use what you thought was the password the steps below will also work as the account is unlocked after a reboot. Open a console session from your vSphere Web Client to the …