Tuesday, June 11, 2013

vCloud Director 5.1.2 Removing Org VDC Networks

I ran into a little issue the other day configuring vcloud director. I wanted to remove an organization VDC completely. Of course to do this you must disable the VDC and remove all of it's resources (networks, templates, and vApps). Upon trying to remove the networks I kept getting the error

Entity xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx cannot be deleted, because it is in use.

This error occurs even though there is absolutely nothing using the network; no templates, VMs, vApps, ....nothing. Our networks were of the direct connect type, although this may also occur with an Edge Gateway network. We didn't want to remove the upper level networks from the entire cloud. The system seems to want to hold on to these networks once they were added for the first time. It seems that we may not be able to remove these networks from the system, but we were able to move them to a new organization VDC. We did this directly on the vcloud database.

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First lets see what is in the table
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SELECT TOP 1000 [id]
      ,[vdc_id]
      ,[lr_type]
      ,[name]
FROM [vcloud].[dbo].[vdc_logical_resource]


Take a look at what you have in the table. The records you care about have a lr_type of NETWORK.

Once you have the IDs from the table you can update the records accordingly.

In the change query below the first parameter (vdc_id) is the organization you want the network to move to. You can usually find the proper id by noting the vcd_id of the record that has the organization name in the 'name' field. The second parameter (id) is the network you want to change. In other words, you are going to set the network's organization id field.

UPDATE vcloud.dbo.vdc_logical_resource
SET vdc_id = 0xabunchofUUIDnumbersfortheorganization
WHERE id = 0xabunchofUUIDnumbersforthenetwork;

Another unique issue we were seeing occurs when we try to disable sharing this network with other VDCs in the organization. If we try to uncheck the box in it's properties we get the following error in vCloud Director:

Index: 0, Size: 0

Not sure what this one is about. Seems it could be an out of bounds exception with the program accessing a list.

3 comments:

  1. Did you ever figure out how to delete it entirely? I am having this exact problem now.

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    1. There is a VMware KB article referring to this issue: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2107135

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    2. We have since moved on to VCD 5.5.4

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