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VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
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VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vCloud Director is an enterprise software solution that enables the building of secure, private clouds by pooling together infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. The tool enables self-service via a web interface to reduce the management overhead and offers amazing possibilities for production and development environments. Thus, the tool will ensure efficient management of resources with data center efficiency and business agility. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" will cover a lot of ground, ranging from easy to complex recipes. It will not only dive into networks, data-stores, and vApps, but also cover vCloud design improvements, troubleshooting, and the vCloud API. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" is split into different sections, each of which deals with a special topic in vCloud - from networks, to vApps, to storage and design. This book contains over 80 recipes with the difficulty levels ranging from simple to very advanced. You will learn how to automate vCloud easily and quickly with the API, and also learn how to isolate a vApp and still fully access it without risking the network. Design considerations that need to be addressed while deploying the vCloud and more will also be looked into. "VMWare VCloud Director Cookbook" will make your life as an admin a lot easier by providing you with some good recipes that have been proven to work in small to large enterprises.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware vCloud Director Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Appendix
Index

Looking for errors in the vCloud GUI


In this recipe we will explore the location where the errors in vCloud GUI are shown.

Getting ready

We just need an organization where we can create a minor error.

How to do it...

You can do this recipe as SysAdmin or as OrgAdmin.

Creating an error

We will now create an error on purpose, so we can then go and look for it. Create the error by performing the following steps:

  1. Log in to vCloud into your organization as SysAdmin or as OrgAdmin.

  2. Build a new vApp (not by clicking on the green +).

  3. Create a VM with 64 vCPUs and 255 GB of hard disk space(if that's not enough, use several TBs of hard disk).

  4. Watch it fail when it tries to create the vApp.

Fail log

We will now check the fail log by performing the following steps:

  1. Click on the failed log in the lower left corner.

    You will now see all the existing errors at this time.

  2. Double-click on your error.

  3. A detailed error message will appear as shown in the following screenshot:

Direct error messages

  1. Underneath the object that...