Re: vCloud API - How to get only public catalogs or only organisation catalogs?
Catalogs and the API have always had some pretty big API issues (since 1.0, most has not been touched). As OrgAdmin, SystemAdmin, or user with the "View Published Catalogs" role:Query for catalogs will...
View ArticleRe: How to troubleshoot intermittent network problems with guest in ESXi 5?
Thanks for the tip. Were you able to downgrade to 4.1 without reinstalling the client? I have 30 users live on my system. It also seems like mine may be a network issue. I have 2 servers in the same...
View ArticleRe: Suddenly getting email notifications for discussions I've never visited!
I will forward you a message. Could you please post me a email address?
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Re: Disable clipboard sharing (only)
The entry should beisolation.tools.copy.disable = "TRUE"isolation.tools.paste.disable = "TRUE" entry has been corrected. thanks to woodyz
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
I have not seen any official way to do this; however a load balancer that does http url inspection should be able to handle this. If the URL does not contain */api/* fail it. Would be nice to see a...
View ArticleRe: OSX 10.8 as guest - additional HDDs don't mount on startup
Hi Chris, Is there a reason you've chosen IDE instead of SCSI? Recent versions of Mac OS don't get along well with virtual hard disks on our emulated PIIX4 IDE controller, which is why we default to...
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
Well, that's OK for the API, but what about the web GUI ? The Web GUI is the most problematic since it is overlapping with the sysadmin interface.
View ArticleRe: vCenter 5.1 u1a build numbers don't match
So wouldn't it make sense to list the various build numbers? The only build number I see on the Web site is the 1123966 number which, call me crazy but I thought that would be the build number I would...
View ArticleCan SSO just use the local OS users and not AD?
We are small: 3 hosts with approx 40 VMs. I only need one server to do all my vCenter stuff, and that's how I've operated through 4.1. I plan on doing a simple install when upgrading to 5.1. I would...
View ArticleRe: How dose a external organisation administrator connect to their Org...
Once a vCloud instance is setup, you will have the ability to add "Organizations" - these objects have users accounts, virtual datacenters (where you setup what storage/compute/network they have access...
View ArticleRe: vCloud Director 5.1 prepare hosts with busy load
To start - you can do one host at a time by putting it in maintenance mode first - then preparing it - then remove it from maint mode. Doing this should have no impact as the running systems in the...
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Re: How to troubleshoot intermittent network problems with guest in ESXi 5?
unfortunately not, i copied the VM's off the host, formatted the host and reinstalled with 4.1. And then used VMware converter to convert the VM from 5.1 to 4.1. took my an antire night to do and I...
View ArticleRe: Software re-activation when moving VMs
If all the hosts in the cluster have the same CPU family, you shouldn't be prompted. I've never had a problem with vMotions causing the need to reactive apps installed in the VMs. Anything that has...
View ArticleRe: Listing the virtual center for a given host
I see the ".Uid" property but I don't see ".Client.ConnectionId", and ".Client.ServerUri". Here is the result of Get-VMHost B | GM Name MemberType Definition...
View ArticleRe: How to prevent access to the vCloud Director System Administrator Interface
You could use the load balancer filter I would thin for all... Possible setup:force traffic filter to not allow traffic where URLNOT */cloud/org/* This would allow API access, and system admin access...
View ArticleRe: Cold Migrate vCenter to new Hosts
Sadly no. They don't have underlying shared storage...
View ArticleHow Template get updated internally in Vcenter update manager? and how it...
How Template get updated internally in Vcenter update manager? and how it cane be implimented with VMware webservices?
View ArticleBluescreen 0xe0000001 in vmx86.sys
I was using 2 virtual machines, decided to restore a snapshot of one (while it was running), and the host BSODed with 0xe0000001 in vmx86.sys. This is actually the 3rd blue screen I had since...
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