I am having problems deploying the a vCenter appliance using the vcsa-deploy.exe.
- Deployed 1 PSC successfully (I know this PSC works because i was able to deploy VCSA using the web-gui)
- Trying to deploy 1 VC and and connect to the external PSC but keeps failing with error below.
````````````ERROR on screen::::::::::
Powering on VM: v6-vc01
Power On Completed
Installing services...
Progress: 5%. Setting up storage
Progress: 55%. Installed VMware-unixODBC-2.3.1.vmw.2-6.0.0.x86_64.rpm
Progress: 59%. Installed VMware-rhttpproxy-6.0.0-2559267.x86_64.rpm
Progress: 65%. Installed vmware-esx-netdumper-6.0.0-0.0.2446071.i386.rpm
Progress: 78%. Installed VMware-mbcs-6.0.0-2562558.x86_64.rpm
Progress: 83%. Installed VMware-vpxd-sim-6.0.0-2559267.x86_64.rpm
Progress: 89%. Installed vmware-vsm-6.0.0-2559267.x86_64.rpm
Progress: 95%. Configuring the machine
Service installations succeeded.
Configuring services for first time use...
Progress: 3%. Starting VMware Authentication Framework...
Progress: 11%. Starting VMware Identity Management Service...
Status : error
Progress: 14%, Starting VMware Single Sign-On User Creation...
Error :
Problem Id : None
Component key : soluser
Detail :
An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Command: ['/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/cer
tool', '--server=172.16.226.114', '--genCIScert', '--privkey=/etc/certs/machine/machine.priv', '--ce
rt=/etc/certs/machine/machine.crt', '--Name=machine', '--IPAddress=172.16.226.116']
Stderr: '
Error in appending hostname/ip 172.16.226.116 to Cert.
Resolution : This is an unrecoverable error, please retry install. If you run into this erro
r again, please collect a support bundle and open a support request.
Please see c:\users\usr1\appdata\local\temp\2\vcsa-cli-installer-progress-oyysnu.json for details.
Gathering VC support log bundle. This can take few minutes.
VC support log bundle path: c:\users\usr1\appdata\local\temp\2\vc-support-bundle.tgz
``````Content of the json log file::
{
"status": "error",
"info": [],
"question": null,
"progress_message": {
"args": [
"VMware Single Sign-On User Creation"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.component.starting",
"localized": "Starting VMware Single Sign-On User Creation...",
"translatable": "Starting %(0)s..."
},
"warning": [],
"error": {
"resolution": {
"id": "install.default.failure.resolution",
"localized": "This is an unrecoverable error, please retry install. If you run into this error again, please collect a support bundle and open a support request.",
"translatable": "This is an unrecoverable error, please retry install. If you run into this error again, please collect a support bundle and open a support request."
},
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"Command: ['/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certool', '--server=172.16.226.114', '--genCIScert', '--privkey=/etc/certs/machine/machine.priv', '--cert=/etc/certs/machine/machine.crt', '--Name=machine', '--IPAddress=172.16.226.116']\nStderr: "
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke",
"localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Command: ['/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certool', '--server=172.16.226.114', '--genCIScert', '--privkey=/etc/certs/machine/machine.priv', '--cert=/etc/certs/machine/machine.crt', '--Name=machine', '--IPAddress=172.16.226.116']\nStderr: '",
"translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'"
},
{
"args": [
"172.16.226.116"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.vmca.appendtocert",
"localized": "Error in appending hostname/ip 172.16.226.116 to Cert.",
"translatable": "Error in appending hostname/ip %(0)s to Cert."
}
],
"componentKey": "soluser",
"problemId": null
},
"progress": 14
}
###################JSON FILE I AM USING: -----
{
"__comments": [
"Sample template to deploy a vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller."
],
"deployment": {
"esx.hostname": "172.16.226.32",
"esx.datastore": "Cluster1-Main",
"esx.username": "root",
"esx.password": "Password1!",
"deployment.option": "tiny",
"deployment.network": "VM Network",
"appliance.name": "VCA6-SideA",
"appliance.thin.disk.mode": true
},
"vcsa": {
"system": {
"root.password": "Passw0rd!",
"ssh.enable": true,
"time.tools-sync": true,
"platform.service.controller": "172.16.226.114"
},
"database": {
"type": "embedded"
},
"sso": {
"password": "Passw0rd!",
"domain-name": "vmware.ops",
"site-name": "Default-First-Site"
},
"networking": {
"ip.family": "ipv4",
"mode": "static",
"ip": "172.16.226.122",
"prefix": "24",
"gateway": "172.16.226.1",
"system.name": "172.16.226.122",
"dns.servers": "10.159.81.20"
}
}
}