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Error

May 31, 2023

VCD – Error when connecting Media to a VM (2)

Working in a large environment that has been operating for years utilising Cloud Director, I have seen a large number of error messages. Today I got a new variation when a tenant was failing to connect an ISO to their deployed VM. This particular VM

Cloud Director

August 25, 2022

VCD Backend validation of NFS failed with: is owned by an unknown user

Mounting an NFS datastore from NetApp storage array fails with an error message during the initial VMware Cloud Director appliance configuration. Backend validation of NFS mount failed with: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/nfs-test/test-file is owned by an unknown user with UID 4294967294: expected root Issue As you know setting

Cloud Director

July 16, 2022

Install RabbitMQ on CentOS7 for VCD

I am currently involved in a project to install a new VMware Cloud Director environment for a customer. They are not quite ready to use the newer MQTT messaging service. As part of the deployment RabbitMQ is required. Normally I would use the packaged Bitnami

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