Symptoms:
- Imaging a host with the VMware Imaging Appliance (VIA) fails.
- The ESXi host MAC addresses were specified but were not entered in lowercase characters
- You see messages similar to the following in the /var/log/evorack-imaging/via.log file on the VIA VM:
2018-12-05 14:56:43,187 [dhcpServerWorkerTaskExecutor-18] WARN : com.vmware.vrack.via.imaging.VIAIPAllocationHandler - Received DHCP Packet from unscheduled ESXI_SERVER device. MAC Address: 24:6e:96:44:ac:b8, Vendor: PXEClient:Arch:00000:UNDI:002001
2018-12-05 14:56:43,187 [dhcpServerWorkerTaskExecutor-18] ERROR: com.vmware.vrack.via.imaging.VIAIPAllocationHandler - Ignoring DHCP Request from device mac 24:6e:96:44:ac:b8 of type ESXI_SERVER since a scheduled device can't be paired up for imaging
2018-12-05 14:56:43,187 [dhcpServerWorkerTaskExecutor-18] ERROR: com.vmware.vrack.via.imaging.VIAIPAllocationHandler - Failed to handle imaging of an unscheduled device with mac 24:6e:96:44:ac:b8
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.