https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/vLCM-amp-Auto-Deploy-Stateful-Install-to-Remote-SAN-Disk/m-p/2869485#M40326 <P>I'm trying to use auto deploy to perform stateful installs on diskless ESXi hosts to an FC SAN disk on our Flasharray (using the 'remote' disk argument).</P><P>This works fine unless I configure auto deploy to build the host into a vLCM enabled cluster (which annoyingly is what I want...)</P><P>When using a vLCM cluster, auto deploy always fails with 'install --firstdisk specified, but no suitable disk is found' during install.&nbsp; It seems that regardless of what disk arguments you set in the host profile associated with the vLCM cluster, auto deploy insists on using 'firstdisk' - when I want it to use 'remote'.</P><P>It works fine if I deploy the host outside the cluster - so, I guess I have a workaround (I could just move the hosts into the cluster after they are deployed), but it feels like this is an undocumented feature / limitation of vLCM and auto deploy, unless I'm missing something.</P><P>Anyone with similar experiences?</P> Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:22:05 GMT mrstorey303 2021-09-30T09:22:05Z https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/vLCM-amp-Auto-Deploy-Stateful-Install-to-Remote-SAN-Disk/m-p/2869485#M40326 <P>I'm trying to use auto deploy to perform stateful installs on diskless ESXi hosts to an FC SAN disk on our Flasharray (using the 'remote' disk argument).</P><P>This works fine unless I configure auto deploy to build the host into a vLCM enabled cluster (which annoyingly is what I want...)</P><P>When using a vLCM cluster, auto deploy always fails with 'install --firstdisk specified, but no suitable disk is found' during install.&nbsp; It seems that regardless of what disk arguments you set in the host profile associated with the vLCM cluster, auto deploy insists on using 'firstdisk' - when I want it to use 'remote'.</P><P>It works fine if I deploy the host outside the cluster - so, I guess I have a workaround (I could just move the hosts into the cluster after they are deployed), but it feels like this is an undocumented feature / limitation of vLCM and auto deploy, unless I'm missing something.</P><P>Anyone with similar experiences?</P> Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:22:05 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/vLCM-amp-Auto-Deploy-Stateful-Install-to-Remote-SAN-Disk/m-p/2869485#M40326 mrstorey303 2021-09-30T09:22:05Z