Auto Deploy - Host not exit maintenance mode after Distributed Switch was included in host profile

[TiborMa]

Hello,

I'm using 2 different versions of ESXi 5.1.0 - one build 1117900 (BUILD A) and second build is 2323236 (BUILD B) and 6 hosts which are booting from Auto Deploy using same host profile for all hosts.

vCenter version is 5.1.0 build 1064983 (Update 1)

- 4 hosts using BUILD A

- 2 hosts using BUILD B

Scenario Before I have applied Distributed Switch to host profile:

- All hosts booted up, but hosts with BUILD A remains in maintenance mode due bug VMware KB: An ESXi 5.1 host provisioned with Auto Deploy remains in maintenance mode after booting

- Host running BUILD B exited maintenace mode

Scenario After I have applied Distributed Switch to host profile:

- Host 1 with BUILD A booted up, apply host profile extra task after vcenter reconnect, exited maintenace mode (eve there is bug which is preventing to do that) (Host is host profie compliant)

- Host 2, 3, 4 with BUILD A remains in maintenance mode and extra task to apply host profile after vcenter reconnect wasn't trigerred (Hosts are host profile compliad when I do manual check)

- Host 5,6 with BUILD B remains in maintenance mode even before exiting maintenence mode automatically as bug whcih prevent that was fixed in that build. (Hosts are host profile compliant)

I cannot find anything in logs which helps me find out why after applying distributed switch hosts doesn't want to exit maintenance mode.

Thanks

[crawfordm]

Have you taken them out of maintenance mode before you reboot them?

Marc

[TiborMa]

yes of course...

[TiborMa]

I have edited post to make it more clear.

[crawfordm]

Is the answer files status - Complete?

[TiborMa]

Yes, I have pre-staged answerfiles. When I go to host profile and click on "Check answer file" or "Update answer file" it wrotes me "here are no paramter values that can be updated in the answer file for host profile". Hosts are compliant.