During a Cloud Builder deployment, it is failing early on in the SDDC Bringup process when it gets to a step for generating the ESXi service account data. This deployment is on a 4-node management cluster following the 4.3 parameter worksheet. The only item to really note is that I have disabled the "Security Thumbprints" validation step.
The checklist uploads successfully and when it attempts to perform the bring up the error states:
Step > Generate ESXi Service Accounts Data
Failed to generate a password for esxi001.domain.com
That is all the data I see and I am wondering if something was missed in the prerequisites. After going through the ESXi host requirements the following seems to be the only steps required:
- Deploy the ESXi build for this 4.3 BOM (used a Dell OEM build that matched the patch number)
- Configure Management on the DCUI
- Add the VLAN to the Virtual Machine port group
- Enable SSH to start with the host and start it
- Enable NTP to start with the host and start it
I believe it connects via SSH to the hosts and tries to enable a service account (perhaps for API connectivity?) but I am not sure why it is failing. I have created a case with VMware but figured I would also check the forums in case this was common. My searches have not come up with anything so far.