Virtualisation Tips & Tricks

Overview This article provides step-by-step instructions for enabling NVIDIA vGPU (Virtual GPU) technology and configuring vGPU profiles in VMware Cloud Director (VCD). NVIDIA vGPU allows multiple virtual machines to share physical GPU resources, enabling GPU acceleration for graphics-intensive workloads in cloud environments. Prerequisites Hardware Requirements Software Requirements Step 1: Install NVIDIA vGPU Software on ESXi Hosts 1.1 Download NVIDIA vGPU… Read more: Enable NVIDIA vGPU in VMware Cloud Director

Virtual machine metrics charts in VMware Cloud Director 10.6.1 display all values along the y-axis. Certain data sets exceed the ability of the chart to display the data correctly. Issue caused due to a Bug in the code and this bug is fixed in the 10.6.1.1 release. You need to upgrade VMware Cloud Director to version 10.6.1.1. After that, the… Read more: Metrics appear on the y-axis in VCD 10.6

While upgrading the platform from version 10.5.1 to 10.6.1, we encountered problems during the database schema upgrade step. The entire process ended with an error. As a result, the Cloud Director database was no longer usable and the database recovery procedure described in this document had to be performed. https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/cloud-director/vmware-cloud-director/10-6/vmware-cloud-director-installation-and-upgrade-guide-10-6/deployment-uprade-and-administration-of-the-vcd-appliance-install/upgrading-and-migrating-your-vmware-cloud-director-appliance-install/roll-back-your-vcd-appliance-when-upgrade-fails-install.html The error message itself is here: Entries from upgrade log… Read more: Cloud Director – Unable Upgrade Database

When you delete VM replication from VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA), however corresponding Replication Tracking VM references are not deleted from vCenter. VMware Cloud Director (VCD) detects references to these Replication Tracking VMs, which in turn leads to the allocation and consumption of storage resources. As you can see, they appear here, but there is no mention of them in… Read more: VCDA Stale Records

What is VMware Chargeback? VMware Chargeback is a tool provided by VMware that allows service providers to manage and allocate costs associated with virtualized environments. It helps both providers and tenants understand resource consumption and allocate costs accordingly. VMware Chargeback functions as a plug-in for the tenants, offering a metering and billing interface. This interface facilitates the tracking, measurement, and… Read more: Activating Chargeback in Aria Operations

VMware released a new VCD version 10.6.1 with very interesting improvements. I was intrigued by this particular one. I quote a post from VMware’s blog below. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudprovider/2025/02/vmware-cloud-director-10-6-1-is-here-whats-new.html Very good, but how and where! Google searches returned zero entries and I also found nothing in the official documentation. Finally I came across a small sentence on how to enable the new… Read more: Smarter VM Placement with Guest OS Awareness

While integrating Cloud Director with Aria Operations to provide customers with resource usage reports and billing. We noticed that the CPU load on the primary node in the Postgres DB cluster was increasing. It gradually increased and remained constant for days. It could even reach 85 Ghz CPU loads. When looking at the load with the TOP command, you can… Read more: Primary DB Node Very High CPU Usage

After creating content hub, in process of adding applications from VMware marketplace it’s ends with errors. The URL of VCD is not included in the allowed origins list. So the logs are throwing CORS error. All the URLs with https should also be included in the allowed origins. Refer: Modifying the “webapp.allowed.origins” configuration on version 10.3 and later. Modifying the “webapp.allowed.origins”… Read more: Content Hub – SSL Errors When Adding Applications

This happens because by default the Cloud Director tries to connect to Aria Operations using the IP. If the certificate on Aria Operations uses FQDN, Cloud Director doesn’t trust the connection leading to the certificate error. To resolve this, please follow the below steps: Refresh the page on Cloud Director to access the plugin without the certificate warning.  Delete VCD… Read more: Unable Access Aria Ops Plugin from vCloud Director Web Interface

VMware Cloud Director Encryption Management is a solution add-on which grants tenant administrators the ability to use encryption keys from their own key providers for encryption of virtual machines (with or without vTPM devices), vApp templates, and named disks in their VMware Cloud Director virtual data centers (VDCs). Setting up Encryption in Cloud Director Setting up a Free KMS Server for vCenter In… Read more: VMware Cloud Director Encryption Management