I'm reaching out to the community because I'm at my wits end at deploying the vCD 9.7 OVA using all the methods available. Some info:
- I have deployed a NFS server and can confirm the permissions, etc are all correct (more on this later)
- I have deployed a RabbitMQ server
- Am using VMware_vCloud_Director-9.7.0.4343-14046945_OVF10.ova
- Am testing all this in a nested VMware ESXi installation on VMware Workstation
- Am attempting to deploy the first primary small appliance with embedded DB
- I have forward and reverse DNS resolution entries for the vCD cell
So I've tried the following:
- Deploying the OVA to my vESXi host simply by following the bouncing ball and supplying all required information when deploying a VM from OVF/OVA file. All seems fine and I can login to the VAMI on port 5480 however I get the dreaded "no nodes found in the cluster" error in the vCD Database Availability tab.
When I login to the console, and view the setupvcd.log file I get the following:
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And the contents of the update-appliance-type.log file
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Both log files imply that I have not selected a valid cell type yet I am 100% certain that I chose "primary small" during the OVA deployment.
I can confirm that the vCD cell can reach the NFS transfer server, has mounted the NFS share and that it has successfully written to the directory.
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I can also confirm that the user and group ownership are correct.
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- Getting sick and tired of typing the same thing over and over again during the UI OVA wizard, I tried deploying the OVA to my vESXi host using the ovftool using the same parameters. Now, after powering on I get the following start job which never succeeds and I am left with a non-functioning vCD instance.
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This times out and eventually I get to the VAMI screen saying the networking is not configured. Basically the vCD appliance is useless at this point. I cannot even login using the credentials I used during the OVA deployment. Nothing much can be done besides deleting the appliance and starting again.
Here's a copy of the ovftool syntax I'm using. It reflects the same properties I'm using during the UI deployment.
ovftool \
--noSSLVerify \
--acceptAllEulas \
--datastore='Datastore1' \
--allowAllExtraConfig \
--net:"eth0 Network"="VM Network" \
--net:"eth1 Network"="VM Network 2" \
--name=vCD \
--diskMode=thin \
--prop:"vami.ip0.VMware_vCloud_Director"="192.168.32.51" \
--prop:"vami.ip1.VMware_vCloud_Director"="10.0.0.51" \
--prop:"vami.DNS.VMware_vCloud_Director"="192.168.32.30" \
--prop:"vami.domain.VMware_vCloud_Director"="kfmlab.local" \
--prop:"vami.gateway.VMware_vCloud_Director"="192.168.32.2" \
--prop:"vami.netmask0.VMware_vCloud_Director"="255.255.255.0" \
--prop:"vami.netmask1.VMware_vCloud_Director"="255.255.255.0" \
--prop:"vami.searchpath.VMware_vCloud_Director"="kfmlab.local" \
--prop:"vcloudapp.enable_ssh.VMware_vCloud_Director"="True" \
--prop:"vcloudapp.expire_root_password.VMware_vCloud_Director"="False" \
--prop:"vcloudapp.nfs_mount.VMware_vCloud_Director"="192.168.32.61:/storage" \
--prop:"vcloudapp.ntp-server.VMware_vCloud_Director"="0.au.pool.ntp.org" \
--prop:"vcloudapp.varoot-password.VMware_vCloud_Director"="Password01!" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.db_pwd.VMware_vCloud_Director"="Password01!" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.admin_email.VMware_vCloud_Director"="admin@kfmlab.local" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.admin_fname.VMware_vCloud_Director"="vcdadmin" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.admin_pwd.VMware_vCloud_Director"="Password01!" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.admin_uname.VMware_vCloud_Director"="administrator" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.inst_id.VMware_vCloud_Director"="1" \
--prop:"vcloudconf.sys_name.VMware_vCloud_Director"="vcd01" \
--deploymentOption="primary-small"
Any help/assistance/ideas would be greatly appreciated!
