I’ve tried
to run an inventory collection against a VMware vCloud Director Computer Resources
at vCAC, or should I say vRealize Automation, but every single try consistently
returned with a failed status.
Because of that, when I tried to create a Reservation, the resources available on that Org vDC were not showing up.
I started
looking at my endpoint and credentials configuration, both were fine, in fact Computer Resources backed by others Org vDCs were running just fine,
which made me belive it was something with that specific Org vDC.
Since vRA
does not provide enough information on the inventory screen, I had to take a
look at the log directly.
Logs about
vCloud Director’s inventory collections can be found on the DEM Worker
component. VMware has this nice KB2074803 about the logs location.
The log clearly stated that
it was failing because there was no network configured on the Org vDC.
Once I created an Org
Network on the Org vDC, the inventory collection ran successfully.
I pretty sure you guys that
are smarter than me can come up with a lot of use cases for a Org vDC without
network connectivity, but to be honest right now it seems more a bug than a
requirement.
Do you agree ?
