Sorry, forgot to mention that it's a different name from my previous post because I shortened the name when I chose create image instead of create 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 Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > The folder structure is > vmwarewin7-SSRLVCL28-v0\vmwarewin7-SSRLVCL28-v0-000001.vmdk which is about > 44GB in size so it's the virtual disk extent. In the same folder there is > the vmwarewin7-SSRLVCL28-v0.vmx.reference > > 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 Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> On Feb 26, 2014, at 10:02 AM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ok..I'll try a complete fresh capture of base image, I tried to create >> image via vcl frontend and when It asked me if I wanted to create a new >> image or create a revision, I chose new image and same issue. >> >> >> Just to clarify, is the virtual disk located in a directory like so? >> >> >> vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001/vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001.vmdk >> >> And is that the location of the vmdk metadata file or the virtual disk >> extent? >> >> >> >> I'll try it from vcld. Do you think I need to update the Perl SDK to >> version 5.5 on VCL? >> >> 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 Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >
