VCSA Install inconsistent: Deploying First External PSC instance via CLI Error: invalid credentials

I am getting access, SSH works when I try it and the password works without issue outside of the CLI.  Are these errors simply network congestion or something else?

This is a lab install on a fresh installation of ESXi v6.5.0

My CLI installation verifies OK with the exception of the manifest not being able to validate.

I am getting 2 errors, the first error repeated many times in the log until the second error takes over and then repeats itself.

The console is stuck at "installing services.

I have left the install running over the weekend without it resolving.

Then a few more times for an hour without success.

Twice it worked without issue.

2017-12-11 18:09:13,035 - vCSACliInstallLogger - TRACE - Retrying file download ...

2017-12-11 18:09:18,150 - vCSACliInstallLogger - TRACE - Cannot download file /var/log/firstboot/rpmInstall.json from 192.168.9.21. Got error: Failed to download file from guest with error '(vim.fault.GuestOperationsUnavailable) {

   dynamicType = <unset>,

   dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],

   msg = 'The guest operations agent could not be contacted.',

   faultCause = <unset>,

   faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) []

}'

2017-12-11 18:09:18,150 - vCSACliInstallLogger - TRACE - Retrying file download ...

2017-12-11 18:09:25,147 - vCSACliInstallLogger - TRACE - Cannot download file /var/log/firstboot/rpmInstall.json from 192.168.9.21. Got error: Failed to download file from guest with error '(vim.fault.InvalidGuestLogin) {

   dynamicType = <unset>,

   dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [],

   msg = 'Failed to authenticate with the guest operating system using the supplied credentials.',

   faultCause = <unset>,

   faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) []

}'

I am using:

-Template 2.3

-ESXi install media

-VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-5310538.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A05.iso

-VCSA media VMware-VCSA-all-6.5.0-5973321.iso

-template: PSC_first_instance_on_ESXi.json

I have deployed via the GUI without issue and once Via the CLI but this may have had an error and I had to hit "esc" or "enter" to have it continue.