IS ESXi 5.0 Offline Bundle Available?

[djak44]

Dear All,

I am looking for ESXi 5 offline bundle.

Anyone knows where to download it?

Thank you

[dstamen]

My vcenter installation doesn't have the ha depot. Any ideas to troubleshoot that?

[sureshsundriyal]

David wrote:

My vcenter installation doesn't have the ha depot. Any ideas to troubleshoot that?

The HA depot is available on the 5.0 VCs by default. Could you type in the complete command that you used to add the software depot? If there is an error message that is displayed by PowerCLI when you try to add that depot, that would be useful as well. Are you using the GA builds of VC and PowerCLI? Finally could you point your browser to http://<your-vc-address>/vSphere-HA-depot/index.xml and see if that renders an XML page on the browser? If that works, try using "Add-ESXSoftwareDepot http://<your-vc-address>/vSphere-HA-depot/index.xml" to see if that solves the problem.

I believe the http address just redirects you to the https port, so try "Add-ESXSoftwareDepot https://<your-vc-address>/vSphere-HA-depot" and

"Add-ESXSoftwareDepot https://<your-vc-address>/vSphere-HA-depot/index.xml" as well.

Not sure if you are using VCVA appliance or VC installation on Windows. On VCVA, I think the depot resides in "/etc/vmware-vpx/docRoot/vSphere-HA-depot", so you can SSH in and check for the existense of that directory. I don't remember the location on a windows box but you should be able to search for "vSphere-HA-depot" and see if it exists on the box or I could get back to you once I get access to a Windows VC box.

[dstamen]

We are using the ga builds running windows vcenters. I get a 404 message in powercli and if I navigate manually. This happened on 3 installs.

[vBlockJFK]

For some reason, the web server on vCenter is not serving up that index.xml page. I get 403 errors when I try to access it by browser.  I suspect a bug. Anyway, I found the depot xml file at C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\docRoot\vSphere-HA-depot\index.xml. I used that as the url, and the Add-EsxSoftwareDepot command worked, though I haven't tried adding an image from it yet.

hope this helps.

[vBlockJFK]

Note: the above link is internal to VMware, unaccessible outside.

http://tpub-stg-ic-1.eng.vmware.com:8080/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50/GUID-B81...

[sureshsundriyal]

VMJFK wrote:

Note: the above link is internal to VMware, unaccessible outside.

Thanks, corrected in my original post.

[sureshsundriyal]

VMJFK wrote:

For some reason, the web server on vCenter is not serving up that index.xml page. I get 403 errors when I try to access it by browser.  I suspect a bug. Anyway, I found the depot xml file at C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\docRoot\vSphere-HA-depot\index.xml. I used that as the url, and the Add-EsxSoftwareDepot command worked, though I haven't tried adding an image from it yet.

hope this helps.

Did you change the default HTTP/HTTPS ports during installtion and do you have any firewall set up that maybe blocking those ports?

Anyway, that directory is the actual depot, so you can at least make progress.

[vBlockJFK]

The default ports were never changed during install, and they work for other things like the standard web page and such. Maybe there is some port conflict, I don't know how to test that.

I did make some progress, but things went best when I used the URL above for the software depot. I had a difficult time attempting to donwload the offline bundle, as I kept getting errors telling me I wasn't authorized to download esx, despite having full access right after the beta ended.

Using the VMware website is the best wasy to go, IMO.

[NeuroJava]

I was able to export the EsxImageProfile by following these instructions. However when I try to Create a New Deploy Rule I'm getting the following error:

Note:

AutoDeploy is installed on a different machine and not the VSphere Server.

The command to add new rule below is producing the error:

New-DeployRule -Name "InitialBootRule" -Item "ESXi-5.0.0-469512-standard" -AllHosts

Downloading net-ixgbe 2.0.84.8.2-10vmw.500.0.0.469512

Download finished, uploading to AutoDeploy...

New-DeployRule : 9/16/2011 9:20:00 AM    New-DeployRule        The request was aborted: The request was canceled.

At line:1 char:15

+ New-DeployRule <<<<  -Name "InitialBootRule" -Item "ESXi-5.0.0-469512-standard" -AllHosts

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-DeployRule], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.DeployAutomation.Commands.NewDeployRule

Here is what I'm doing:

I'm following the instructions listed on http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vmtools.install.doc/GUID-65BCA561-5A03... in the Section: Installing ESXi using vSphere AutoDeploy - Write rules for the first host.

1. Followed the instructions above to create the EsxImageProfile.

    Get-EsxImageProfile gives the following result:

Name                           Vendor          Last Modified   Acceptance Level

----                           ------          -------------   ----------------

ESXi-5.0.0-469512-standard     VMware, Inc.    8/19/2011 1:... PartnerSupported

2. Connect-VIServer -Server <Vsphere Server IP>  -User <username> -Password <user password>

Gives the following warning:

WARNING: There were one or more problems with the server certificate:

* A certification chain processed correctly, but terminated in a root certificate which isn't trusted by the trust provider.

* The certificate's CN name does not match the passed value.

3. Add-EsxSoftwareDepot <Full path to EsxImageProfile created by following above steps> gives the following output:  

Depot Url

---------

zip:<path to zip file>?index.xml

4. New-DeployRule -Name "InitialBootRule" -Item "ESXi-5.0.0-469512-standard" -AllHosts

    Gives the error highlight above.

Any help will be really appreciated.

[NeuroJava]

The above issue was resolved. It was a networking issue (internal proxies blocking the upload from one server to the other).

Sorry for the confusion.

[theboss2008]

Dude, you are awesome, work like a charm.

Thanks a lot

[jorck1]

NeuroJava, Thank you for your solution !!

The error you mentioned is the same i got.

Disabling some proxy settings in IE solved this problem also for me.