Apr 05

Can’t log into your new vCloud Director VM guest?

By wsellers Guest OS, vCloud Director No Comments »

Let’s just say first: I VMware vCloud Director ROCKS! I have been using it for about 2 weeks; and, this product is going to make IT administration/automation really easy…

However, here is one of the issues that threw me off when trying to login to my newly created vCloud VM guest:

Problem: I cannot login into the OS (Linux, Windows, etc) of my newly created VMware vCloud guest.

Solution:  By default, when a new vCloud Director VM is provisioned, the default “administrator” or “root” user ID is auto-generated by vCloud Director.   This is part of the VM guest’s customization settings after provisioning.   You can find the new password by choosing the properties on the new guest.  Make sure you go to the properties of the VM guest — and not the vApp.  See Below:

 

Hope this helps…

Thanks,
Will
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Mar 28

Failed to Created Provider vDC in VMware vCloud Director

By wsellers How To, vCloud Director, VMware ESX No Comments »

Last week I was having problems creating a Provider vDC in VMware’s vCloud Director… Here’s the error I was getting

 

Even though the installation was followed step-by-step from documentation, I was still getting this error… After working with VMware Cloud Technical Support, we were able to resolve the issue.   The problem is that when I initially named the VCD System Name I gave it the “exact” name of the VM guest running VCD.

The VCD Installed ran fine — and the installation was successful, — with the exception of errors when creating Provider vCD’s.

So, when you are naming your vCD, give it a unique name—- that will never conflict with the name of a VM guest that exists — or would ever exist…

 

I will post an update here— once the VMware KB article is created and published.

Happy vClouding,
Will

 

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