vCloud director - running MAC OS X and Windows VM in same vApp.

Recently we installed in Mac Pro 6,1 hardware and provided MAC OS X virtual machines to our vCloud director environment.

This was configured in a separate cluster in vCenter server which provides all the regular capabilities like HA, DRS and vMotion which is great. Also created a separate storage cluster and assigned a new MAC storage profile to this cluster which was made available within vCD.

MAC OS X templates was created and added to catalog with storage set to pre-provision on default storage profile create for MAC cluster.

Problem: 

In vCloud director a new Provider VDC was created and linked to the new vCenter server cluster.
Within the existing Organizations we created an additional virtual datacenter with MAC provider VDC selected.  This created new resource pool in the cluster.


The users where now able to deploy MAC OS templates to this VDC, however a request came back quickly that users need to deploy both MAC OS X and Windows VM within the same vApp.

Troubleshooting: 

The configuration as explained above obviously does not allow for this situation since during deployment of vApp you can only select a single VDC to deploy too as well for adding a VM you can only specify a single storage Policy, which will also be the one assigned to vApp's VDC .  So all the VMs would need to run on the Apple hardware cluster which is not idea.

Solution:

Solution was pretty simple and can be accomplished by merging your provider VDC's which was introduced in vCloud director 5.1.1.

1. Login to vCloud director as system admin.
2. Select Manage & Monitor
3. Under Cloud resources select Provider VDCs
4. Right click the MAC provider VDC and select Merge
5. Select the Provider VDC that you want this merge with.
6. After completion you will now see your Provider VDC has  additional resource pool, datastores and ORG VDCs
7. I then went ahead and deleted the VDC I initially created for the MAC deployments since only need the original VDC.

Now when you deploy a vApp select the existing VDC which contains the MAC Provider VDC and storage profile.  Same can be accomplish for deploying VM within a vApp.