vSphere resources do not appear in vCloud

[jx]

Hello experts,

     I installed vSphere and VCSD as well. Now I added the vCenter to VCSD. The VC registration process is successful, but none of the vSphere resources are listed on vCloud console. I have 3 ESX machines, a cluster and a resource pool on vSphere. If I go to "Manage and Monitor"->"vSphere Resources"->"Hosts" the list is empty! Same for "Resource Pools". The only thing appearing is the VM Network under Switches and Ports->Port Groups.

Any idea why ? How do I troubleshoot it ?

Thanks

~j

[guitzer]

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[admin]

The best thing to do is look at the $VCLOUD_HOME/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log file (on the VCD machine) and see if there were any errors.

[jx]

Hello there!

      I figured it. It was simpler than that. I forgot the fact that the hosts and resources will not appear in the vCloud until I create a provider VDC. I have done things many times before but (bad day!) I forgot the steps . Anyway.. once the PVDC is created hosts are resources are listed and thinsgare working fine.

      By the way, out of curiosity, is there a reason why adding vCenter and adding hosts/resource pool on the vcenter has to be two seperate steps? IMHO combaining those makes lot of sense !

Thanks.

[depping]

it is a seperate step as you might want to add a Provider vDC after connecting a vCenter Server.

Duncan (VCDX)

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