Invalid Argument Error upon PXE boot during vCSA 6.5 Autodeploy

[zanix]

I am trying to test autodeploy feature in recently upgraded test environment (vCSA 6.5 U1).  I am getting following error while booting a blank VM  (OS type selected : other 64-bit, Network adapter: tried both E1000/VMXNET3, local HDD).  IP from DHCP is successfully assigned but something wrong with autodeploy. I am using solarwind TFTP and placed :

"

tftp: IP address/tramp....ok

could not start download: Invalid argument (http://ipxe.org/1c25e002)

could not boot image: Invalid argument (http://ipxe.org/1c25e002)

Network error encountered while PXE booting

"

Note: I downloaded TFTP image from vCSA console, ESXi zipped folder from VMware .  I have done no special configuration in host profile.

I will really appreciate any suggestion to resolve...

[daphnissov]

You probably have not configured Option 66 & 67 in your DHCP server. See this KB.

[zanix]

Thanks for the reply. I configured both options as shown in attachment .. Boot server host name, DNS and TFTP all hosted in a single windows server.

[zanix · Accepted solution]

I found solution to the problem. There is some bug in "Deploy-tftp" from vCSA 6.5 for which it does not load ESXi image from deploy rule.  You need to use deploy-tftp from vCenter Server 5, extract files and replace in TFTP location.  Everything will work smoothly then .