CLOUDDIARY

Author: Kinshuk Tripathi In today’s dynamic cloud environment, ensuring high availability and efficient data management is crucial for organizations. VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) offers a powerful solution for VM recovery and migration across different OrgVDCs within a VMware-based cloud infrastructure. This article will explore how VCDA enables seamless recovery or migration between two OrgVDCs…

Recently at a customer site encountered an issue which I didn’t see before. while initially it looked like a VMware tools drivers issue against the vCenter 6.7 appliance (Photon OS), however it was far away from that, and it can become an upgrade blocker was not in my dream either. I tried upgrading the vCenter…

Recently came across with a situation where upgrade to vCenter version 7.x was failing from version 6.7 with message ‘An error occurred while starting service ‘hvc’ This issue arises in Stage 2 which is an essentially a mid-stage of an upgrade process, and an admin can’t resume the upgrade without rolling back the source environment back to…

In this blog, there are simple steps to install SRM and VR appliance [version is 8.5.x]. Prerequisites: Appropriate version of Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server are installed on both sites. Compatibility matrix link: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Site-Recovery-Manager/8.5/rn/srm-compat-matrix-8-5.html DNS entries to be updated with the FQDN of SRM and VR appliances. Note the address of the Platform Services Controller instance for both…

How to get started with Ubuntu 20.04 on Fusion Tech Preview 22H2 – Apple Silicon   Whenever I ask users what flavor of Linux they want to run on their machine as a VM, I hear only about one, and that’s Ubuntu Linux. Probably this is because of its user-friendliness and support for many development tools,…