VRO: MySQL Driver Not Installed

Description:

When trying to connect to a MySQL database in vRealize Orchestrator, you will get an error like no suitable driver found.

To Resolve:

1. First, ssh into your appliance and see the version:

   cat /etc/SuSE-release
   

2. Download your version of mysql from the links in the KB above. I chose the platform independent version

   • Copy the mysql-connector-java-x.x.x.jar to the /usr/lib/vco/app-server/lib directory on the Orchestrator server.

   # copy from my machine to vro machine
   scp /mnt/c/scripts/mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar root@vra03:/root/tmp/mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar
   # move to correct dir
   mv /root/tmp/mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar /usr/lib/vco/app-server/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar
   # change the ownership of the mysql-connector-java-x.x.x.jar file.
   chown vco:vco mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar
   # change the permissions of the mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar.
   chmod 644 mysql-connector-java-x.x.x.jar
   # restart the Orchestrator server service.
   service vco-server restart
   

3. After this, I still got the same error when trying to add a mysql server, this was fixed by copying the same file to all 3 nodes! So if you have the VRA cluster setup, copy the mysql connector to all three nodes and restart the service on each. After that, I just had to make sure my SQL user I was connecting with had access rights to add a database.

References

“MySQL DB installation in vRealize Orchestrator 7.2 fails (2148277)”