Slow provisioning times when templates lack VM Tools.
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Issue/Introduction
When provisioning VM's who's templates lack VMware or Open VM Tools, there may be delays between the successful completion of the machine clone/deployment and the response in Aria Automation indicating that it has completed.
Environment
Aria Automation 8.x
Cause
Once VM creation is completed in vSphere, Aria Automation waits for the population of IP and Hostname values that only occur when VM Tools is present.
Resolution
If you need to present hostname and IP values you will need to install VMware or Open-VM-Tools on the template.
If there is no need to track hostname or IP from Aria Automation provisioning, you can disable this collection by setting the following properties to false:
awaitIP
awaitHostName
By setting these to false, the provisioning process continues as soon as the VM has been deployed successfully to vSphere.
Example Blueprint for location of properties under the Virtual Machine properties:
formatVersion: 1
inputs: {}
resources:
Cloud_vSphere_Machine_1:
type: Cloud.vSphere.Machine
properties:
image: Ubuntu
flavor: Small
awaitIp: false
awaitHostName: false
Additional Information
More information can be found in the documentation here: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-automation/8-18/assembler-on-prem-using-and-managing-master-map-8-18/maphead-designing-your-deployments/properties-hidden.html
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