Missing Licensing Metrics in vCloud Director 9.0

You might have noticed that vCloud Director 9.0 no longer displays licensing metrics.

This was a conscious decision as already for some time the licensing is handled externally by vCloud Usage Meter and the metering in vCloud Director caused vCloud database bloat.

If for some reason you still need to have these metrics available in UI, vCloud API or vROps Management Pack you can enable license metering with this command on a cell. No need for reboot, just wait few minutes for the next data collection.

$VCLOUD_HOME/bin/cell-management-tool manage-config -n licensing.metrics.vm.enabled -v true

How to Generate SSL Certificates for vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations 6 (vRops) has different SSL certificate generation requirements than the older version. I have not found it publicly documented anywhere so here it is:

1. Generate private key:
   openssl genrsa -out vrops.key 2048
2. Create certificate signing request:
   openssl req -new -key vrops.key -out vrops.scr -days 365 -sha256
3. Sign vrops.scr by your Certificate Authority
4. Create PEM text file which contains signed cert from #2, private key from #1 and CA certificate (optionally intermediate certs as well)
5. Go to vRops admin portal and click the certificate icon in the top right corner (next to admin). Install the new certificate by uploading the PEM file from #4.

Wait a little bit and then re-login. Reboot is not necessary.