vRA8 multi (clustered) VM deployment in parallel

[xian_]

I noticed the VMs are deployed one by one if I use the count property in a blueprint. This slows down the whole process a lot. Is there a way to make deployment parallel?

[stevedrummond]

Can you provide more information or a sample blueprint? What version of vRA 8?

I just deployed to vCenter and AWS with a single compute stack with Count = 2. The clone/runinstance commands, and all EBS subscriptions appeared to run simultaneously for me.

The blueprint had no other components on it except for a single Cloud.Network which already exists.

Are you sure you don't have those components dependent on something else?

[xian_ · Accepted solution]

I found the cause if this behavior: I added a custom property to the blueprint:

assigned_ip: '${self.networks[0].address}'

Once I removed this property, the deployments started simultaneously.

(Now I replaced this line with an ABX to save the static IP address assigned by vRA.)