VMware vCloud Director Cookbook

Recovering from an outage

The following sections explains the things to look at after your vCloud infrastructure has experienced an outage:

Getting ready

This recipe will prove to be useful in the case of a vCloud environment that is currently down.

How to do it...

1. Make sure the vCloud service has stopped.
2. Check the vSphere infrastructure and make sure that all the ESXi servers are running and that the datastores are accessible. If this is not the case, work on these issues first.
3. Start the vCloud service in only one cell.
4. Monitor the cell's start-up (tail –f /opt/vmware/cloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-debug.log).
5. Check if there are any errors while the vCloud Cell starts. If there are errors and the vCloud service isn't starting, fix these issues. ...