Virtualisation Tips & Tricks

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

When you deploy the VMware Cloud Director appliance, it generates self-signed certificates with a validity period of 365 days. If there are expiring or expired certificates in your environment, you can generate new self-signed certificates. You must renew the certificates for each VMware Cloud Director cell individually. Appliance Certificates If you are renewing the certificate for the primary node in a database high availability… Read more: Renew Cloud Director Certificates

I managed to contact the manufacturer’s technical support about the problem when there are many disks with the status “error” in the database. VMware support confirmed that it is safe to delete disks with status “ERROR” from the database. Connect to the DB:sudo -i -u postgres psql vcloud We find disks with the status ‘error’, if there are only a… Read more: Cloud Director Disks with Status “Error”

Sometimes there is a situation where vCloud Director can no longer delete the organization, vdc or network after some actions. There is a reference in the VCD database The solution is to find the required network in the DB and delete it. Connect to the DB:sudo -i -u postgres psql vcloud We run SQL commands that will find the network… Read more: Cloud Director Delete Network