VMware vCloud Director Cookbook by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Packt Publishing

How it works...

Let's see why we have built the preceding program in the first place. We can shut down the vCD VM using vCenter, by using the command service vmware-vcd stop.

Using the service command to shutdown vCD has a disadvantage: it just stops vCD regardless of operations that are currently under way. In the user manual of vCloud, the proper shutdown of a vCloud cell is shown using the cell-management-tool tool.

The cell-management-tool tool is found in the /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/ directory. You require a vCD SysAdmin account to operate it. To shut down vCD properly, you first have to quiesce the cell by using the command cell-management-tool -u VCLOUDUSER –p VCLOUDPASS cell -quiesce true.

Where VCLOUDUSER is your vCD SysAdmin account, just the account no @System is required and VCLOUDPASS is the corresponding password. After you quiesce the cell, you should check if any jobs are still running by using the command cell-management-tool [user and pass] cell –status.

When the Job Count reaches zero, you can shut down the cell by running the command cell-management-tool [user and pass] cell –shutdown.

Now, you can check the status of the vCD cell with the command service vmware-vcd status.

After the cell is shut down, you can do the maintenance of the VM or shut down the VM.

Starting vCD is always via the command service vmware-vcd start.

However, if you have just updated vCD or recovered from an error, it is advised to monitor the messages log; the best command for that is Tail –f /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/log/vcloud-container-debug.log.

For more information refer to Chapter 8, Troubleshooting vCloud.

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