So in my lab, I have auto deploy working with host profiles. However about every 3 (randomly) boot on the same VM it the auto deploy hangs on the "Loading VMware ESXi" Screen.
Loading /vmw/cache/38/6fetc etc etc. The bar always fills to about 90% and them 1 out of 3 times hangs forever and never finishes.
The VC auto deploy screen says only 330mb of 2gb cache is used.
I have downloaded the Auto Deploy Logs, and there is nothing that has Error just Debug/Info. (no idea what exactly to look for)
What is causing this? What else can I check?
Is your autodeploy server, vCenter and the ESXi vm's all on the same workstation host? Also, which version of Workstation are you using?
Actually its VMware player 5.0. All are on the physical server.
The vCenter is on one VM while player is on a separate VM.
Player is pxebooting and pulling the ESXi image.
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It seems might be some driver problem or the deployment config problem ,
Please share more log file.
So far I'm starting to thing its the network. Since its shared lab I did some tests on the weekends/night. I was able to Auto Deploy about 20 times in a row with no issues.
Even i got the same problem, ESXi booting stuck at the same place as David9876 has given screenshot.
I would really appreciate quick help.
Hi yosingh,
Did you ever manage to figure out what the problem was? I am facing the same issue.