Hi,
I want to deploy a VDP Appliance and connect it to a remote vCenter, that is, not the one on which the appliance is deployed. Say I have deployed the ova template in vCenter1, but during the configuration I want to connect it to vCenter2. The reason behind this is, that the whole environment managed by vCenter2 is very small and I don't want to deploy a 1TB+ appliance there. Both vCenters run in the same DC, so there are no communication or latency issues, also - the VM that vCenter2 is running on is registered with the vCenter1.
During the configuration i get the "VDP not found in vCenter inventory" error (not using english browser version so this might be slightly different). From what I understand, during configuration the appliance wants to discover itself within the vCenter1 inventory, altohugh I have provided it with connection info for the vCenter2. An error is reported in the vami-ovf.log:
2014-04-24 05:03:28,486 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-services.VcenterConnectionTestService: Testing VDP connection to vCenter at: [vCenter2] port: [443] and SSO at
: [vCenter2] port: [7444]
2014-04-24 05:03:28,658 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-reconfig.VcenterConfigurationImpl: Validating permissions for vCenter user: [domain\userWithAdminRightsOnVCenter]
2014-04-24 05:03:28,659 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-vi.VIAccess: Attempting to obtain AVE VM with IP Address: [10.x.x.x]
2014-04-24 05:03:28,666 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-vi.VIAccess: Local Client not found
2014-04-24 05:03:28,667 ERROR [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-reconfig.VcenterConfigurationImpl: Failed to obtain either Authorization Manager from service instance or VDP VirtualMach
ine.
2014-04-24 05:03:28,667 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-vi.VIAccess: Attempting to obtain AVE VM with IP Address: [10.x.x.x]
2014-04-24 05:03:28,674 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-vi.VIAccess: Local Client not found
2014-04-24 05:03:28,689 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-service.AdapterUtils: MCS Web Services URL: https://localhost:9443/services/mcService MCUserId="MCUser" MCUserPswd="***
**************************"
2014-04-24 05:03:28,704 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-httpclient.HttpMethodDirector: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refus
ed
2014-04-24 05:03:28,704 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-httpclient.HttpMethodDirector: Retrying request
2014-04-24 05:03:28,706 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-httpclient.HttpMethodDirector: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refus
ed
2014-04-24 05:03:28,706 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-httpclient.HttpMethodDirector: Retrying request
2014-04-24 05:03:28,708 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-httpclient.HttpMethodDirector: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refus
ed
2014-04-24 05:03:28,708 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-httpclient.HttpMethodDirector: Retrying request
2014-04-24 05:03:28,710 INFO [http-nio-8543-exec-10]-http.HTTPSender: Unable to sendViaPost to url[https://localhost:9443/services/mcsdk10]
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
DNS lookup zones are configured, as are the firewall ports.
Is it at all possible to connect VDP to a remote vCenter?
You cannot connect VDP to a a remote vCenter. It is not supported. You cannot get past the configuration.
VDP should be deployed with in the vCenter and can be connected only to the vCenter
Yeah, I've read the KB's and jsut thought that maybe there is a way. Too bad.