While doing some vSphere 6 Auto Deploy development I found out that when using PowerCLI 6.3 R1 (latest release when writing this article) and using the New-DeployRule command you will receive an error message stating: New-DeployRule : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Item’. Unsupported version URI urn:rbd1/3.0
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New-DeployRule : Cannot process argument transformation
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on March 29, 2016
https://virtualkenneth.com/2016/03/29/powercli/
Reset VMware Auto Deploy Database to default
One of the things that the VMware Auto Deploy Database contains is the ESX Images that are uploaded and related to the DeployRules that are created. For instance, if I add an ESXi Image to the software depot and create a new DeployRule using the following commands: Add-EsxSoftwareDepot “VMware-ESXi-6.0.0.update01-3380124.x86_64-Dell_Customized-offline-bundle-A04.zip” Get-EsxImageProfile | ft -autosize New-DeployRule -Name […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on March 11, 2016
https://virtualkenneth.com/2016/03/11/reset-vmware-auto-deploy-db-to-default/
Auto Deploy: ESXi Stateful Install with multiple LUNs connected fails
Recently I have been experiencing some troubles with VMware Host Profiles, Auto Deploy and the stateful install of ESXi 5.1 (Update 1). After the Host Profile gets applied, the system eventually times out with the message: “The request failed because the remote server took too long to respond” as indicated on the screenshot below.
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on October 24, 2013
https://virtualkenneth.com/2013/10/24/auto-deploy-esxi-stateful-install-multiple-luns-connected-fails/
vSphere Auto Deploy: Consider the Asset Tag to categorize ESXi Hosts
While designing for vSphere Auto Deploy you may want to group (categorize) your ESXi Hosts and attach a deploy rule (rule set) to them: You specify the behavior of the Auto Deploy server by using a set of rules written in Power CLI. The Auto Deploy rule engine checks the rule set for matching host patterns to decide which items (image profile, […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on June 17, 2013
https://virtualkenneth.com/2013/06/17/vsphere-auto-deploy-consider-asset-tag-to-categorize-esxi-hosts/
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