• VMTurbo Plenary Presentation – Andrew Mallaband
• Don’t Do Virtual Networking, Do Cloud Networking – Greg Ferro, packetpushers.net
• The Virtual Community, Social Media & You – Darren and Gregg
• How InfoSec Can Improve Your Love Life – Barry Coatsworth
• A Puppet Primer – Robbie Jerrom, VMware
• Nimble Storage Presentation – Nick Dyer
• Making Cloud Storage Easy to Use- Hans de Leenheer, Veeam
• VMware Horizon Update – Peter von Oven, VMware
• vCAC Part Deux, The Return – Kim Ranyard, VMware
• SDN For Beginners – Dave Burgess, VMware
• Atlantis Computing Lab
• Heterogeneous vCD – Stuart Thompson and Lee Harris
• Onward Drinks at Pavilion End

I should be there and looking forward to the presentation from Greg Ferro and the VCAC preso.

Register HERE

The operation could not be performed because the object is in an invalid state.

I googled and tweeted for advice but couldn’t get a good thread to why this would happen.  I was planning all kind of resolutions like cloning out of VCD and back in again which didn’t work. As a last resort I attempted to power on the VMs through the vSphere Client. I then noticed that DPM then went about powering up my host which was in standby which was weird because nothing was running on the existing cluster host. I then started to think there are some dependencies that these VMs needed that wasn’t being fulfilled by the powered on host.  OK I knew compute wasn’t an issue and I could see all datastores so I started to probe around the network config. I had purposefully configured DVS switches for my VCD setup and that’s when I noticed “LINK DOWN”. My DVS switches only had 1 uplink each…. #fail. After checking I noticed that the Ethernet cable was dislodged. #Fix…… The moral of this story is sometimes error messages are misleading or not welled described.

Maybe VMware should look into hooking into DPM to automate the resolution.

Well the location of the graphic on the VCD server is located:

https://vcd.demo.local/cloud/support/images/appBgPattern.png

So as well as modifying the CSS stylesheet mentioned in the blog listed earlier you could play around with the graphics if you are prepared to SSH into the server. What I did was this:

Not sure how support these actions but at least you know it could be done.

using System.Net;
using com.vmware.vcloud.sdk;
using com.vmware.vcloud.sdk.admin;
using com.vmware.vcloud.sdk.utility;
using com.vmware.vcloud.api.rest.schema;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

After handling the certificate issue next I initiated a connection but received a failure:

Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Net.Http, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

After messing around with .Net versions I decided to switch from using Visual Studio 2010 to 2012. This seems to cured my program. In a follow up post I will walk through how to do what I achieved with this app step-by-step.

http://www.mikelaverick.com/2013/03/not-ready-bare-metal-cloud-for-your-auto-lab/

Quote:

“When I was in Australia recently for the Sydney/Melbourne VMUG I had the chance to meet Alastair Cooke – and sit in on his presentation on AutoLab. Alastair is a VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) based in New Zealand, and is one of the hosts of the APAC VMTN Communities Podcast. In case you don’t know AutoLab is tool that will build for you using scripts a vSphere Lab environment – and its based on the principle of “nested ESX” or “vESX” – where ESX is run in VM on a physical ESX host. It’s was updated in Dec, 2012 to support vSphere 5.1.”

You can shift workloads from your private datacenter to a public while maintaining the network config and whilst still being able to access the workload left over on the private cloud.

vCC stretches its vApp/VM network boundary to the public vCloud using a stretched network.

I believe this is the start of something much grander.

Stretching vApps