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VMware Auto Deploy with MSCS won’t work

27 October, 201425 October, 2014 Gabrie van Zanten 3 Comments Auto Deploy, esxi, vCenter, VMware

Our environment is fully built using VMware Auto Deploy 5.1. All the clusters have their own ruleset and we’re very content on how easily we update our hosts and deploy new hosts. However, recently we ran into a major issue with Microsoft Cluster Services inside VMs in combination with VMware Auto Deploy. In a scenario […]

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Add Fusion IO driver to VMware Auto Deploy

17 June, 201314 June, 2013 Gabrie van Zanten 1 Comment Auto Deploy, esxi, storage, VDI, VMware

A customer of mine, who was already running a vSphere environment on Cisco UCS blades, asked to expand his environment with a number of ESXi hosts that could run a VMware View environment. To be able to run as much View desktops on each host as possible, we offered them Cisco UCS Blades equipped with […]

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VMware vSphere 5.1 iPXE problems with AutoDeploy

14 September, 201225 August, 2013 Gabrie van Zanten 11 Comments Auto Deploy, ESX, esxi, Whats New

Short story: Can I replace the new vCenter 5.1 iPXE boot with good old vCenter 5.0 PXE? Yes you can !!!! I called on twitter for help for someone to send me the contents of their AutopDeploy 5.0 FTPRoot directory and I promptly received a response from Roman ( @medea61  ). After placing the AutoDeploy […]

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AutoDeploy Failed to convert ItemList

6 September, 2012 Gabrie van Zanten Auto Deploy, PowerShell, VMware

When working with VMware vSphere AutoDeploy and creating or editing rules I sometimes get the following error when running a Get-DeployRule: “Failed to convert ItemList to VI Object: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object” (See screenshot). Often I also have one or more rules not working correctly then. Turns out […]

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Adding ESXi host with dvSwitch through Auto Deploy fails

26 April, 201216 May, 2012 Gabrie van Zanten 2 Comments Auto Deploy, esxi, Virtual Center, VirtualSwitches, VMware

Been fighting some problems with VMware Auto Deploy lately which turned out to be an easy to solve issue. I installed the first host in the cluster, which would NOT be deployed with Auto Deploy but had a local hard disk in it. Configured it the way I like it, set all the logging and […]

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