While deploying a vCenter Operations Manager appliance a few days back, I was hit by the following error message (towards the end of its deployment): Failed to deploy OVF package: The task was canceled by a user. That was of course surprising given I didn't cancel the task. Thinking it might be a glitch, I [...]
... and so the last day was upon me. Sort of a reality check that all the learning and meeting people is going to end (not to mention the great weather!) and soon it'll be time to say goodbyes. I've found that checking out is much easier if you're too early or too late. If [...]
Day 3 for me started with the general session. This time, I chose to sit in the blogger's area, instead of the hall, which turned out to be the right decision. Comfortable seating and a table in front meant I could use my laptop to tweet as announcements were being made. Anyway, focus for the [...]
Well, the start to day 2 wasn't too great - my laptop's WiFi broke at the wrong time! I guess there's never a right time to have a broken adapter but it's time to buy another one! Anyway, managed to get the already delayed blog post about the previous two days out that I hope you've [...]
VMworld 2014 Europe will open for the general attendees today but as always, activities started a couple of days ago and in this post, I am documenting what's been happening so far. Like a lot of other people, I got here about noon on Sunday. I like to do that as that gives me a [...]
Just a quick note about a weird bug I came across yesterday. I was implementing a vCloud Connector 2.6 setup and about to do "Cloud Registrations" on their respective nodes. However, the following error message was returned when I first tried it: Incorrect url https://<<Domain Name>>.local I double-checked the URL in case it was mistyped [...]