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?