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MKguy
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Virtuoso

Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

I'm running into what seems like a bug when deploying a VM from template via New-VM to a Datastore Cluster while using the DiskStorageFormat option.

The following code throws an error:

New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster MyCluster1) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster MyDatastoreCluster1) -Template (Get-Template MyTemplate) -DiskStorageFormat Thin

New-VM : 19.03.2014 12:51:11 New-VM

Required property datastore is missing from data object of type VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.RelocateSpec.DiskLocator

at line 1, column 1073

while parsing property "disk" of static type ArrayOfVirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.RelocateSpec

at line 1, column 1017

while parsing property "location" of static type VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.CloneSpec

at line 1, column 1006

while parsing property "cloneSpec" of static type VirtualMachineCloneSpec

while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.storageDrs.StoragePlacementSpec

at line 1, column 324

while parsing call information for method RecommendDatastores

at line 1, column 218

while parsing SOAP body

at line 1, column 207

while parsing SOAP envelope

at line 1, column 38

while parsing HTTP request for method recommendDatastores

on object of type vim.StorageResourceManager

at line 1, column 0 In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1

+ New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo      : NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], InvalidRequest
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmServiceImpl_ApplySdrsRecommendation_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

Omitting -DiskStorageFormat however works fine:

New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster MyCluster1) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster MyDatastoreCluster1) -Template (Get-Template MyTemplate)

Using a Datastore object instead of a DatastoreCluster object while keeping -DiskStorageFormat also works fine:

New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster MyCluster1) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster MyDatastoreCluster1 | Get-Datastore | Select -first 1) -Template (Get-Template MyTemplate) -DiskStorageFormat Thin

It doesn't matter whether Thin, Thick or EagerzeroedThick is specified for DiskStorageFormat. Creating a new VM from scratch (no Template) also works fine in all cases

It worked without any issues before I upgraded to PowerCLI 5.5 R2. (Was using PowerCLI 5.1 R2 before)

Get-PowerCLIVersion

PowerCLI Version

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  VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2 build 1671586

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Snapin Versions

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  VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1598391

  VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1598391

  VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1265954

  VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1671576

  VMware VDS vSphere PowerCLI Component 4.1.1 build 000001

  VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1671576

  VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 5.1 build 782803


The target environment I'm connected to is running vCenter 5.1U2 and ESXi 5.1U2.

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LucD
Leadership
Leadership

I can confirm, I get the same error messages.

Looks like you might have found an issue


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

MKguy
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

VMware engineering is working on this issue and planning to release a fix with the next PowerCLI release.

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np123
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Enthusiast

I'm seeing the same error with PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1 build 2057893.

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JVidanez
Contributor
Contributor

Hello all,

Any one knows if they are going to sort out this?

Is there any bug number open to follow?

Regards,

JJ

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samalone
Contributor
Contributor

I'm seeing the same issue with the new 6.0 version of PowerCLI:

PowerCLI Version

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   VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 build 2548067

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Component Versions

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   VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2358282

   VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2358282

   VMware License PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2315846

   VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2548068

   VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2548068

   VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2548068

   VMware vCloud Director PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2512755

   VMware HA PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2510422

   VMware vCloud Air PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2512755

   VMware PowerCLI Component for Storage Management 6.0 build 2522368

Thanks,

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Dean_H
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Contributor

I can confirm this is still an issue as well :smileycry:

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dsaydon
Contributor
Contributor

Until the fix you can use meanwhile instead of get the datastore cluster:

Get-DatastoreCluster -Name ####

The command to get direct datastore with the most aviliable free space:

$DataStoreSystem = (Get-DatastoreCluster -Name ###### | Get-Datastore | sort -Property "FreeSpaceGB" -Descending)[0].name

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calabaria
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Contributor

Still a problem in 6.5.

kondrichRHI
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

The bug is still present in version PowerCLI 6.5.1. Smiley Sad

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CloudServices
Contributor
Contributor

still a bug in

PowerCLI Version

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   VMware PowerCLI 11.0.0 build 10380590

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Component Versions

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   VMware Cis Core PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 6983166

   VMware VimAutomation Core PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 6234650

   VMware Licensing PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 5375648

   VMware Vds PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 5374428

   VMware Cloud PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 5375799

   VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 6.6 build 6997673

   VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 6.6 build 6997673

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