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Recently hit an error where AppVolumes did not register my lab vcenter successfully. My lab vcenter is signed by an internal CA. From the log /var/log/av-manager/production.log, \[2016-05-02 05:30:56 UTC\] P2455R400 ERROR RvSphere: Failed to connect to vSphere at "administrator@vsphere.local@vc.xyz.local": SSL\_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed \[2016-05-02 05:30:56 UTC\] P2455R400 INFO Completed 400 Bad Request in 46.6ms (Views: 0.7ms | ActiveRecord: 8.4ms) As per the official documentation, we need to append the CA cert into the file /usr/local/av-manager/config/cacert....

I recently lost access to few of my ESXi hosts after using the incorrect VLAN on the dvSwitch portgroup. Was unable to find any command to change the VLAN of a dvSwitch portgroup from the command line. Luckily I came across the Network Restore Option in DCUI To restore VDS from DCUI: Connect to the DCUI. From the Network Restore Options menu, select Restore vDS. Type the correct values for VLAN uplink and blocked properties, where appropriate....

In order to run openstack commands from the Openstack Management Server Appliance: SSH and login to the Openstack Management Server as the user viouser. SSH to the controller VM using the command: ssh controller01 Go super user: sudo -s Source the cloudadmin.rc file: source /root/cloudadmin.rc Export the OS_PASSWORD environment variable, export OS_PASSWORD=xxxxx Run the Openstack cli commands, for eg. nova list

Came across an interesting issue where we were unable to remove user entitlements from the VMware View connection server. Was able to resolve the issue by manually removing the user from the adam database. The probable cause of the issue is due to replication failures between the connection servers. To manually remove user entitlements and the user account from the connection broker follow the below instructions: NOTE: Editing the Adam database is quite risky and can lead to rebuilding the entire VDI environment....

In the DRS Resource Distribution Chart, CPU utilization is displayed on a per virtual machine basis, grouped by host. The chart shows information for each virtual machine as a colored box, which symbolizes the percentage of entitled resources that are delivered to it. If the virtual machine is receiving its entitlement, this box should be green. If you hold the pointer over the box for a virtual machine, its utilization information (Consumed versus Entitlement) is displayed....