While working with a client past week, we realize an odd issue. vCloud Director was reporting a version of 0.0.1.123456 build date was weird as well.









I decided to check the cells version on the vCD database.

As we can see from the dbo.cells table both my cells were reporting the same weird version.









Since both cells were reporting the same issue I thought it could be a bug and then decided to update the cells from version 8.10 to the latest vCD fix, which was 8.10.1.





No luck !!! : (





Analyzing further I found out that product version and product build date were missing on the Global Properties file, on a normal system it should looks like that.









So I just added the entries on the file (/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/etc/global.properties)





For version 8.10.1 the information must be the follow:





product.version = 8.10.1.4655197

product.build_date = 2016-11-15T16:50:35-0800









MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A COPY OF THE GLOBAL.PROPERTIES FILES BEFORE MAKE ANY CHANGE.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT PRODUCT VERSION AND BUILD DATE INFORMATION





After the change I just recycled vCD’s services and the product version was reported back properly on the GUI.

Follow KB1033575 to properly shutdown vCD cells.



