vCloud Director

18 05, 2021

vCloud Director 10.2.2: “[ERROR] Hostname was not updated via dns reverse-lookup. Failing OS configuration phase.” Resolved!

By Ather Beg|2021-05-18T10:52:40+01:00May 18th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments

While deploying a vCloud Director cell and logging into the VAMI interface of the appliance (https://<hostname>:5480) for the first time, you might see an error saying: OS Configuration Phase has failed. Please check the log at /opt/vmware/var/log/firstboot for more details on the failure before redeploying this appliance node. For reference, this is what one expects [...]

24 02, 2014

Book Review: VMware vCloud Security

By Ather Beg|2016-12-11T15:25:05+00:00February 24th, 2014|Book Review, Cloud, Firewall, Review, Strategy, vCenter, vCNS, Virtual Lab, Virtualization, VMware, vShield, vSphere|1 Comment

Security is a subject that has historically been overlooked by companies/vendors when it comes to deployment of new systems. Generally, an easy and quick way out is preferred, especially when there are time-pressures to deliver a project or solution. That situation is exacerbated due to the fact that techies don't generally give security much thought [...]

19 03, 2013

VMware Hybrid Cloud: “There was an error running your last operation….”

By Ather Beg|2016-12-11T15:25:07+00:00March 19th, 2013|Cloud, How To, Virtual Lab, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere, Windows|0 Comments

One of my colleagues is currently researching cloud services. Like me, he is also very interested in VMware Hybrid Cloud and created an account as soon as it was made available. However, despite using supported browsers, he ran into problems trying to delete a virtual machine that he had created earlier. Every time he tried, [...]

16 03, 2013

Getting Started with VMware Hybrid Cloud

By Ather Beg|2016-12-11T15:25:07+00:00March 16th, 2013|Cloud, ESX, Firewall, How To, vCenter, Virtual Lab, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere, Windows|0 Comments

In the past couple of years, the term "cloud services" has become very fashionable. Every company wants to be on it. So, even if your day-to-day job is not virtualization, it still makes sense to know about it. Now, even though a cloud service is just a platform outside your own private environment, to someone [...]