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  • 1.  Holodeck 9.1 - Unable to Deploy Site B VCF Installer

    Posted 14 days ago

    Attempting to deploy a dual site Holodeck 9.1 instance by following the Holodeck documentation.
    Site A deploys successfully.
    Site B fails when attempting to deploy VCF Installer appliance with error message: "Error: No network mapping specified. OVF networks..."
    Correct 'Site-B' portgroup selected during "New-HoloDeckInstance" run sequence and was assigned successfully to deployed nested Site B ESXi VMs.
    Site B config file in /holodeck/config/ within the Site-B > vcf-installer section has the label "network1" set to null - I'd expect this contain the Site-B portgroup name.



  • 2.  RE: Holodeck 9.1 - Unable to Deploy Site B VCF Installer

    Posted 12 days ago

    Having the same issue. Glad to know I'm not the only. Same circumstance as above, Holodeck 9.1 and unable to deploy a site-b successfully due to vcfinstaller failing. I've examined the xxxxx-b.json config file and it looks like it's not getting the settings needed to deploy the vcfinstaller (see excerpt below). After building out the b-side vms, it now wants to deploy the vcfinstaller, doesn't find any settings for network in the json and crashes out. 

          "vcf-installer": {
            "ovaPath": null,
            "rootPassword": "VMware123!VMware123!",
            "localUserPassword": "VMware123!VMware123!",
            "hostname": null,
            "ntp": null,
            "network1": null,
            "ip0": null,
            "netmask0": null,
            "gateway": null,
            "domain": null,
            "searchpath": null,
            "dns": null,
            "depotType": "online",
            "onlineDepotDetails": {
              "depotProxyEnabled": false,
              "depotProxyDetails": {
                "protocol": "HTTPS",
                "ProxyAddress": "",
                "ProxyPort": "",
                "isAuthenticated": false,
                "authDetails": {
                  "username": "",
                  "password": ""
                }
              }
            },




  • 3.  RE: Holodeck 9.1 - Unable to Deploy Site B VCF Installer

    Posted 12 days ago

    (repost)... I'm having the same issue... Excerpt below is from the xxxxx-site-b.json. It looks like the json doesn't have the details needed to execute on vcfinstaller for site b. So after creating the site-b vms, script crashes because all the settings needed to deploy vcfinstaller are all null.

          "vcf-installer": {
            "ovaPath": null,
            "rootPassword": "VMware123!VMware123!",
            "localUserPassword": "VMware123!VMware123!",
            "hostname": null,
            "ntp": null,
            "network1": null,
            "ip0": null,
            "netmask0": null,
            "gateway": null,
            "domain": null,
            "searchpath": null,
            "dns": null,
            "depotType": "online",
            "onlineDepotDetails": {
              "depotProxyEnabled": false,
              "depotProxyDetails": {
                "protocol": "HTTPS",
                "ProxyAddress": "",
                "ProxyPort": "",
                "isAuthenticated": false,
                "authDetails": {
                  "username": "",
                  "password": ""
                }
              }
            },




  • 4.  RE: Holodeck 9.1 - Unable to Deploy Site B VCF Installer

    Posted 12 days ago
    (repost)... I'm having the same issue... Excerpt below is from the xxxxx-site-b.json. It looks like the json doesn't have the details needed to execute on vcfinstaller for site b. So after creating the site-b vms, script crashes because all the settings needed to deploy vcfinstaller are all null.
     
          "vcf-installer": {
            "ovaPath": null,
            "rootPassword": "VMware123!VMware123!",
            "localUserPassword": "VMware123!VMware123!",
            "hostname": null,
            "ntp": null,
            "network1": null,
            "ip0": null,
            "netmask0": null,
            "gateway": null,
            "domain": null,
            "searchpath": null,
            "dns": null,
            "depotType": "online",
            "onlineDepotDetails": {
              "depotProxyEnabled": false,
              "depotProxyDetails": {
                "protocol": "HTTPS",
                "ProxyAddress": "",
                "ProxyPort": "",
                "isAuthenticated": false,
                "authDetails": {
                  "username": "",
                  "password": ""
                }
              }
            },



  • 5.  RE: Holodeck 9.1 - Unable to Deploy Site B VCF Installer

    Posted 12 days ago

    OK thanks. Slightly different from what I'm seeing. 
    I've set Site A MasterCIDR to 10.1.0.0/20 & Site B MasterCIDR to 10.2.0.0/20

    Post failure of Site B VCF-Installer, the Site B configuration file & VCF-Installer section for Site-B contains all the configuration parameters with the exception of "network1" which designates the VMs portgroup. (Sorry can't post the details I'm on a dark site)
    Working around this issue by waiting for the Site B deployment to fail, manually updating the Site B configuration .json file with the correct portgroup name for the VCF-Installer, restarting the Site B deployment via repeating the "New-HoloDeckInstance" command.
    So far so good, will update when/if the full deployment completes.