I’m referring to both capturing a base image through vcld and creating a new image based off of an existing environment. I am not referring to creating a new revision of an existing image.
Aaron On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:55 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Aaron, > > So from the VCL front end before going to manage ->create update images , I > need to rename it in the edit details from the edit image profiles menu or > are you referring to capturing an image from scratch(base image) and not a > revision? > > David DeMizio > Academic Systems Coordinator > Office of Information Technology > New College of Florida > Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 > www.ncf.edu > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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