Long title, huh? Hooray very long product names. If you’re planning on adding a vCloud Air instance as a cloud provider for Application Services, there are a few steps that aren’t covered in the Application Services documentation. In order to create the cloud provider, you’ll need to retrieve the URL & organization name from the […]
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vCloud Automation Center HTTP 503 error
The other day I logged into my vCloud Automation Center web client and discovered that I was getting HTTP 503 errors in a number of different places and Java errors thrown in my Home dashboard. After a bit of digging around I determined that the password expired on the Active Directory user account that’s acting […]
Setting up the CentOS 6.3 template for jPetStore in vCloud Application Director 6.0.1
If you’ve tried to use the CentOS 6.3 template that VMware provides as part of the out-of-the-box application templates for vCloud Application Director 6.0.1, then you’re probably aware of the difficulty involved due to sub-optimal documentation and the template’s initial configuration. I’ve worked through the documentation and after a bit of work and head scratching, […]
Active Directory tenant identity sources & vCloud Application Director 6.0.1
Recently, I encountered an issue while trying to add a cloud provider in vCloud Application Director 6.0.1. It turns out that, depending on the vCloud Automation Center identity source, you may need to capitalize the domain name in the user’s UPN. (See this post about attempting to add a cloud provider with a down-level username […]
Adding a cloud provider in vCloud Application Director 6.0.1
If you’ve tried to add a new cloud provider within vCloud Application Director 6.0.1, you may have run into an issue where the credentials can’t be validated. The (less than helpful) UI error message is: Could not connect to the Cloud Provider at https://iaas01.lab.dns: Unable to login to cloud provider. Please verify the user credentials […]