Set current system time on vCAC appliance
After so many deployments of vCAC I’m still finding some strange issues and misconfiguration. This time I had a problem with log in to tenant portal after full power cycle of my vCAC environment....
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vCAC 6.0 most annoying installation error
vCAC 6.0 most annoying installation error During my POC on vCAC I had to struggle with different type of issues but he most annoying one was during IaaS component installation. I don’t know how...
vCAC 6 series – Part 11 – Create Blueprint
What’s is Blueprint in vCloud Automation Center Blueprints are the complete specification for a virtual, cloud, or physical machine. Blueprints determine a machine’s attributes, the manner in which it is provisioned, and its policy...
vCAC 6 series – Part 10 – Prepare for provisioning
There are several ways to deploy virtual machines with vCloud Automation Center 6.0 and vSphere. Link Clone Provision a space-efficient copy of a virtual machine called a linked clone. Linked clones are based on...
Upgrading vCloud Automation Center
Generally there are three ways to update vCloud Automation Center: Use VMware online repository – automatic update via management GUI Download ZIP update packages from VMware public repository and create your own repository Download...
vCAC 6 series – Part 9 – Configuring IaaS for vSphere
Configuring IaaS for vSphere Create credentials store item: Log in to vCAC as IaaS administrators Navigate to Infrastructure –> Endpoints –> Credentials. Select New Credentials. Configuring IaaS for vSphere – Create vSphere Endpoint: Log...
vCloud Automation Center 6.0 SP1
Yesterday VMware released Service Pack 1 to vCloud Automation Center 6.0. All changes are bug fixes to well known problems such as: Error during import leads to data loss and machines being destroyed in...
vCAC 6 series – Part 8 – Installing vSphere Agent
vCAC 6 – Installing vSphere Agent vCloud Automation Center uses the following types of agents to manage external systems: Hypervisor proxy agents vSphere, Citrix Xen Servers Microsoft Hyper-V servers External provisioning infrastructure (EPI) integration...
vCAC 6 series – Part 7 – Post Installation tasks
Verify IaaS Services After installation, the system administrator verifies that the IaaS services are running. If the services are running, the installation is a success. From the Windows desktop of the IaaS machine, select...
vCAC 6 series – Part 6 – Initial Configuration
The initial configuration. The next step involves setting the user accounts and tenants. During installation process, we have already created the default tenant at https://vcac-appliance-hostname.domain.name/shell-ui-app (in my case https://vca01.lab.local/shell-ui-app) that can be accessed with...
