vCloud: Application initialization detailed status report: 9% complete

By Arne Fokkema - ICT-Freak.nl

After installing vCloud Director in my lab, I couldn’t start the cell. So I looked in the log file: /opt/vmware/cloud-director/logs/cell.log and saw the following subsystem status report:

More info about the vCloud log files can be found in this blog post: http://www.virtual-blog.com written by David Hill.

The reason why the cell couldn’t start was a missing A record on the DNS server. So I created the A record and restarted the vmware-vcd service via:

/etc/init.d/vmware-vcd restart

Right after the restart I used the tail command to watch the cell.log file:

tail -f /opt/vmware/cloud-director/logs/cell.log

And 32 seconds later the cell was started successfully:

So if you are working with or planning to work with vCloud Director. Be sure your DNS infrastructure is configured correctly and be sure you add all the A records for the vCloud Director VMs. The VDC, Oracle and vShield Manager.