I don’t use vmware 5.5, but on earlier versions that use vCenter, there is an issue where, if a virtual machine name is longer than 29 characters, vmware will silently truncate the name and append an incrementable (numerical) value. To a user of vCenter the name appears correct, though in the underlying datastore, it is actually different (even though the vmware documentation explain that any VM can have names up to 80 characters in length).
I thought there was code in place to handle this, but I could be mistaken. In any case, the simple way around it is to give your image a shorter name when you initiate the capture. Then, once the image capture is complete, you can rename it to anything you’d like through the VCL web front-end. -Aaron On Feb 25, 2014, at 5:03 PM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to create a new revision of an image and it keeps failing > when it tries to reload. I think part of the problem is that the master image > file the it creates when it clones the source ends in 00001.vmdk and VCL is > expected just <name of image > .vmdk. any idea what might be causing this? > belong is a snippet of the log, please let me know if you need more. FYI, We > recently upgraded to esxi 5.5 so I'm trying to upgrade the virtual hardware > and VMware tools on the image.The golden image contains a file like the one > listed below but VCL is expecting a different name.. > > vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001.vmdk > > |31438|19:19|reload| ---- CRITICAL ---- > |31438|19:19|reload| 2014-02-25 > 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|new.pm:reload_image(639)|vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5 > does not exist on management node and could not be retrieved > |31438|19:19|reload| ( 0) new.pm, reload_image (line: 639) > |31438|19:19|reload| (-1) new.pm, process (line: 291) > |31438|19:19|reload| (-2) vcld, make_new_child (line: 571) > |31438|19:19|reload| (-3) vcld, main (line: 350) > 2014-02-25 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3666)|inserted > computer=4, failed, requested image does not exist on management node and > could not be retrieved > |31438|19:19|reload| ---- WARNING ---- > |31438|19:19|reload| 2014-02-25 > 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|new.pm:process(339)|failed to load vcl-n-001 with > vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5 > > > >
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