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August 25, 2022

VCD Backend validation of NFS failed with: is owned by an unknown user

Mounting an NFS datastore from NetApp storage array fails with an error message during the initial VMware Cloud Director appliance configuration. Backend validation of NFS mount failed with: /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/nfs-test/test-file is owned by an unknown user with UID 4294967294: expected root Issue As you know setting

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July 16, 2022

Install RabbitMQ on CentOS7 for VCD

I am currently involved in a project to install a new VMware Cloud Director environment for a customer. They are not quite ready to use the newer MQTT messaging service. As part of the deployment RabbitMQ is required. Normally I would use the packaged Bitnami

March 26, 2021

Change Site ID in Cloud Director 10.2

When you install a Cloud Director Instance the Site ID name visible to Tenants shows as a unique alphanumeric ID in the GUI and API as default. Many people want to change this to something a bit more descriptive. This can be done easily but

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