After deploying the vCloud Director appliance, the next step is to browse to the https://cell-ip-address:5480 admin interface to perform initial setup, or supply the NFS share if it’s a secondary node.
In my case the :5480 port wasn’t responding, but i saw the appliance failed to start NGINX.
After sifting through the logs i found the error:
nginx[1512]: nginx: [emerg] cannot load certificate “/opt/vmware/appliance/etc/ssl/vcd_ova.crt”
After some investigation i figured out the issue is when the script to generate the certificate vcd_ova.crt is run it expects the field “Domain Name Search” to be filled in.
In my lab, i only have a Domain Name, and thus didn’t fill in the “Domain Name Search”. Filling in the same value in both Domain Name, and Domain Name Search will cause the script to run, and port :5480 comes up.
This has been reported to VMware Engineering and they are working on a fix.
vCloud Director deployment doesn’t start :5480
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