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vCloud Director 9.5 – Available resources could not be determined

A few days after upgrading from vCloud Director 9.1 to 9.5, I encountered a strange issue. If someone was trying to launch a vApp or VM or trying to reconfigure existing VMs or vApps, it wasn’t possible. In the logs I could see the error message “Total available resources could not be determined for reservation” in combination with a long Java stack trace.

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Configuring Performance Metrics for vCloud Director 9.5

With vCloud Director version 9.0, performance metrics of virtual machines can be directly displayed in the new HTML5 Tenant portal for customers. All it takes is a Cassandra database cluster and a few small configurations on the vCloud Director side. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? That’s it, too, if you consider a few pitfalls.

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Installation of Cassandra Database for vCloud Director 9.5

With vCloud Director 9.5 it is possible to display performance metrics for VMs, such as CPU or memory usage, directly in the new Tenant Portal. However, this requires a Cassandra database cluster to store these performance metrics.

There are already guides out there on how to set up a Cassandra database cluster for vCloud Director, but the instructions I found were partly outdated or lacked information or were not suitable for CentOS 7, which I want to use as the base operating system. So I decided to create my own blogpost. And the VMware documentation about installing Cassandra for vCloud Director 9.5 doesn’t give a lot here and serves only as a rough orientation.

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vCloud Director 9.x – HA Considerations

A vCloud Director setup consists of several components. At least required are vCD cells, a database and an NFS server. Depending on the features, additional components may be necessary, for example the AMQP Broker or a Cassandra database. In order to make this setup completely high available, each of these components must therefore be redundant. So, it’s useful to take a look at some basic HA considerations for the individual components.

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vCloud Director 9.5 – Move to appliance and Postgres database

With the release of vCloud Director 9.5 it became known that only Postgres will be supported in the future as database backend. MS SQL was flagged as deprecated and Oracle is no longer supported with vCD 9.5 onwards. In addition vCloud Director has also been released as an appliance based on PhotonOS. Therefore, I would like to explain how you can switch to the new appliances and the database backend in a few steps.

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vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers – What is it?

VMware recently released the latest version 2.5 of the vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Providers (vCAT-SP). But I know that many service and cloud providers around the globe don’t know what that is and that something like that even exists.

I will therefore try to give a brief overview and introduction to this topic and hopefully show how powerful this toolkit can be for your business.

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