Certain network information are not displayed until deployment is finished.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

Since Aria Automation version 13+ certain network information are not available until deployment is finished.
Info that is not display is like:
-mac
-name
-ipv6 address

those values are also not passed during "Compute-post-provision" subscription phase.

 

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.13.x
VMware Aria Automation 8.14.x

Resolution

This is new VRA behavior introduced in VRA 8.13 and there are no plans to change it.


Workaround:

Since this is going to be the behavior moving forward, the workaround is as follows:

Subscribe to topic "Deployment resource completed" instead of "Compute post provision". With "Deployment resource completed", this is a more higher lever of topic fired when resource is ready and available for Service Broker and Cloud Assembly services, and whenever it is fired, the needed info like the mac/ipv6/name will be there

We can also add a filter to it, so that the event is only fired for certain type of resource (or whatever condition customer wants), like following with a filter "event.data.resourceType == 'Cloud.vSphere.Machine'", this "pause" subscription is only going to be added for vsphere machines.

 

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
You can notice the difference between version 12 and 13: on earlier versions, mac/name/ipv6 address will show up after the vm is created in vcenter and before vm is marked creation success by vra; while on later version they won't show up until vm is marked creation success by VRA.