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The application services (formerly APPD) appliance has it’s own local database. Behind the scenes it is running a vPostgres database to store information about application blueprints and services.Over time the database tables can become fragmented and impact performance. Always snapshot or backup your appliance before attempting this procedure. NOTE: This Continue reading How to reindex the AppService aka APPD Appliance Database
So you have vCAC and Application Director installed. You are at the point that you want to request a new app from the Catalog and instead of the request box you are presented with a blank White screen. Well, let’s get that fixed so you can enjoy the power of Continue reading White Screen on New AppD Request?
In this example I am configuring a Linux Template for APPD and vCAC 6 using vSphere. NOTE: The installation will be slightly different for Amazon EC2 deployments Step 1: First you will need to download and install the JRE. This can be obtained from the APPD server. Download the JRE Continue reading How to Create an APPD 6 Linux Template
For this guide you will need a Windows 2008 R2 VM with VMware tools already installed. Step 1: Open a console in vCenter and login to the Windows server with Administrator credentials. Step 2: Open a web browser to the Application Director server and download the Java edition for your Continue reading How to Create an APPD6 Windows Template
Step 1: Login to vCloud Application Director as your SSO user, for example cloudadmin@corp.local Step 2: Click drop down and navigate to applications and Click +New Step 3: Give the new app a name and click Save Step 4: Click Create App Version Step 5: Accept the default version and Continue reading How to install APPD 6 Part 3 – Create an App and Publish to vCAC Catalog
This section requires APPD templates already created in vCenter and the blueprints ready in your vCAC business groups: Don’t worry, I created step by step guides for that too! How to create an APPD 6 Linux TemplateHow to create and APPD Windows Template How to create Linked Clone Blueprints Step Continue reading How to install APPD 6 Part 2 – Adding vCAC 6 Cloud Provider
So you have mastered infrastructure as a service and your cloud consumers are hungry for more. By now your becoming a master with vCAC 6 right? Are you ready for a new challenge? Get ready to impress all your friends with application provisioning. VMware vCloud Application Director is an application Continue reading How to install APPD 6 Part 1 – Configure the Appliance
If you are trying to follow the instructions to create a vCloud Application Director 6 template you will need to know the correct agent or JRE to download and install. Here is a listing of that directory for your convenience: jre-1.7.0_45-lin32.zip jre-1.7.0_45-lin64.zip jre-1.7.0_45-win64.zip vmware-appdirector-agent-bootstrap-windows_6.0.0.0.zip vmware-appdirector-agent-service-ec2_6.0.0.0-0_i386.rpm vmware-appdirector-agent-service-ec2_6.0.0.0-0_x86_64.rpm vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_amd64.deb vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_i386.deb vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_i386.rpm vmware-appdirector-agent-service-vcac_6.0.0.0-0_x86_64.rpm Continue reading Application Director 6 Agent Directory
The Problem: When deploying an Application director 6 blueprint to a Windows based VM, the deployment is stuck in deploy phase and in vCAC the status is stuck in customize OS. In the APPD logs you get the error that appd.properties is not found. This is a result of Continue reading APPD 6 with Windows Template gotcha