• UEFA Champions League: 6,303 tweets per second
• MTV VMA: 8,868 tweets per second
• Steve Jobs’ passing: 6,049 tweets per second

After a little digging, I found these tables in the SQL database:

- VPX_EXT_CLIENT
- VPX_EXT_SERVER

Both have a field called ‘URL’ which has the URL (doh) to the plugin.

Two things; this is not supported by VMware and could break something. I hasn’t on my setup, but it might on yours. Backups are your friend.

You need to stop the vCenter service before you edit the value and start it back up after you’re done.

It took me a while to this neat tool: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/server/vsphere/automationtools/ovf - ovftool is a utility that can convert virtual machines between certain formats.

Once you have it downloaded and installed, you can use the commandline tool to convert the .ovf to a .vmx like this:

ovftool --acceptAllEulas vMA-4.1.0.0-268837.ovf vMA.vmx

Then just double click or import the .vmx into Fusion

Often with beta software, an upgrade path to a release build is lacking or problematic. Same goes for vCloud Director 1.5 beta to the release build of 1.5. When I upgraded to the release build, I did so without ‘Unpreparing’ the ESXi hosts that were being used by vCloud Director. That causes some problems when you want to link a new vCloud Director to these ESXi hosts, as the vCloud Agent is still on the hosts. You have to remove that agent manually before you can link them with the new vCloud Director again. Here’s how:

esxcli software vib remove -n vcloud-agent

/opt/vmware/uninstallers/vslad-uninstall.sh

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org keystore]# wget http://lostdomain.org/etc/ImportKey.class
[root@vcd.lostdomain.org keystore]# java ImportKey proserve-key.der proserve-cert.der
Using keystore-file : /root/keystore.ImportKey
One certificate, no chain.
Key and certificate stored.
Alias:importkey  Password:importkey

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# keytool -storetype JCEKS -storepass importkey -keystore keystore.ImportKey -list

Keystore type: JCEKS
Keystore provider: SunJCE

Your keystore contains 1 entry

importkey, Aug 24, 2011, PrivateKeyEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): C0:5E:7B:B8:AB:30:89:5B:4A:7D:5F:2F:F4:00:CD:F4

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# keytool -keyclone -storetype JCEKS -storepass importkey -alias importkey -dest consoleproxy -keystore keystore.ImportKey
Enter key password for
(RETURN if same as for )
Re-enter new password:
[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# keytool -keyclone -storetype JCEKS -storepass importkey -alias importkey -dest http -keystore keystore.ImportKey
Enter key password for
(RETURN if same as for )
Re-enter new password:

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# keytool -delete -storetype JCEKS -storepass importkey -alias importkey -keystore keystore.ImportKey
[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# keytool -storepasswd -new passwd -keystore keystore.ImportKey

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# keytool -storetype JCEKS -storepass importkey -keystore keystore.ImportKey -list   

Keystore type: JCEKS
Keystore provider: SunJCE

Your keystore contains 2 entries

consoleproxy, Aug 24, 2011, PrivateKeyEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): C0:5E:7B:B8:AB:30:89:5B:4A:7D:5F:2F:F4:00:CD:F4
http, Aug 24, 2011, PrivateKeyEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): C0:5E:7B:B8:AB:30:89:5B:4A:7D:5F:2F:F4:00:CD:F4

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# /etc/init.d/vmware-vcd stop
Stopping vmware-vcd-watchdog:                              [  OK  ]
Stopping vmware-vcd-cell:                             [  OK  ]
[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# mv keystore.ImportKey certificates.ks
[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]# /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/configure
Welcome to the vCloud Director configuration utility.

..snip..

Please enter the path to the Java keystore containing your SSL certificates and
private keys: /opt/vmware/keystore/certificates.ks
Please enter the password for the keystore:

..snap..

Would you like to start the vCloud Director service now? If you choose not
to start it now, you can manually start it at any time using this command:
service vmware-vcd start

Start it now? [y/n] y

Starting vmware-vcd-watchdog:                              [  OK  ]
Starting vmware-vcd-cell                                   [  OK  ]

The vCD service will be started automatically on boot.  To disable this,
use the following command: chkconfig --del vmware-vcd

[root@vcd.lostdomain.org ~]#