chipset.motherboardLayout is automatically changed to "acpi" when provisioning a virtual machine from the Content Library after upgrading the hardware version to 20 and higher.

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 8.0

Issue/Introduction

• It has been observed that chipset.motherboardLayout is automatically changed to "acpi" in the VMX file when provisioning a virtual machine via Content Library, even if the VM template contains chipset.motherboardLayout = "i440bx"
  
  
• While validating the template configuration, the following differences are found:

• • For the Virtual Machine template:

grep chipset *.vmtx

Output:
chipset.motherboardLayout = "i440bx"

• • For the Virtual Machine deployed via the Content Library:

grep chipset' *.vmx

Output:
chipset.motherboardLayout = "acpi"

Environment

VMware vCenter 8.0 Update 3f and earlier

Cause

The content library doesn't preserve chipset.motherboardLayout property while cloning the VM template to the Content Library as OVF file.

Resolution

This issue has been resolved in VMware vCenter 8.0 Update 3g

Additional Information

For more information, refer vSphere Client and vCenter Issues section in VMware vCenter 8.0 Update 3g Release Notes