Issue while verifying target hardware

[Erich Popp]

hi,

just started with holodeck 9 and deployed the new router vm. 

physical hardware:

SuperMicro AS-2123BT-HTR with 2x AMD EPYC 7451 24Core, 1 TB pRAM and 8 TB NVMe

ESXi 8U3

• all prerequisites checked and created
• config file created
• config file imported
• config file applied

Issue:

PreChecks[...]: [ERROR] Failed to verify target host hardware details. Encountered error:

Exception: Exiting

no further information in log

any ideas?

[Dhruv Tyagi]

Can you provide more logs?

If you still have the powershell session open, run:

$Error | Select *

This should provide you with the error

[JoeDDfS]

Hi,

If you use list of error messages "$Error | Select *" and then retry to run powershell command for deployment "New-HoloDeckInstance -Version 9.0..." the installer will continue.

this worked for me

[Atif_YNI]

Did you find a solution to this issue?

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[vidar berg+ingebrigtsen]

Hi,

from my experience , cpu and memory are ok, the issue COULD be with settings in vswitch , disk or target name/fqdn.

check your settings up against the prereq for the vswitch and the portgroups, promiscious mode/mac changes/forged transmits=accept, MTU 8000+ and trunk vlan 4094 as well as the vmfs volume for disk, 3-4tb+. When it comes to the config, use IP instead of fqdn, directly to esxi host with root user.

also, remember to copy the sddc ova and the esxi 9.0 iso into the router vm before you run the config.

i did a full setup with a wld. this took a lot of resources, so i would recommend doing the deploy with mgmt domain first, and then perhaps extend to a wld if you have the resources for it, or just running it in hybrid mode.

my setup was:

Dell r730XD 2 x intel 28 core cpu, 768gb mem, 6tb ssd disk vmfs and 15tb sas.

vswitch and single host, no vcenter

i experienced some latency, the aria automation use a lot of resources, installs on the first vhost with 24 cores.

the other 3 hosts are configured with 12 cores

my physical server was using 110% cpu and very slow. turned off the vra, and went down to 50% cpu .

Ran 5.2.1 on the same server with no problem with aria automation, so obviously the new vcf 9 is more hungry for resources.

Best Regards

Vidar

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[Atif_YNI]

You hit it on the head. My switch config was off. Its installing now. Thank you.

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[Mariusz Narloch]

Had same issue with ESXi 8.0 - server was standalone in Vcenter. When I added this server to 1host cluster, holoscript goes further. However on next steps, installer said that esxi is not on 8.0.3 hovewer it was latest build :). I suspect that host was upgraded since 6.7. 
Reinstalled esxi to latest 9.0 and now it is fine.

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