While delivering a vCloud engagement to one of our enterprise customers using the latest vCloud Director 5.1.2 and vCloud Networking & Security 5.1.2a, my VXLAN configuration where failing at the stage where its preparing the hosts. I followed the same steps I have used for other customers and in my lab with previous versions, which is as well confirmed by different colleague to work and posted on other blogs.
For reference, the installation steps published by Rawlinson at http://www.punchingclouds.com/2012/09/09/vcloud-director-5-1-vxlan-configuration/ are almost identical to the installation step I have followed, though I kept getting the following error while the vCloud Networking & Security Manager is trying to prepare my hosts for VXLAN by pushing the VXLAN Agents to them: “VIB module for agent is not installed on host (vShield-VXLAN-service)”. The below images demonstrate the error I was getting in my vSphere Client and in the vCloud Networking & Security web interface:
After fuzzing with the error for couple of hours and researching a solution, I have discovered that for some reason vCloud Networking & Security is failing to automate the installation of the VXLAN Agent VIB into my ESXi hosts. For that I decided to try to install the VXLAN Agent VIB manually into my ESXi hosts & test if that work out.… Read More