Hey Guys,
Wondering if anyone can share any tips on how to overcome this. I am running into an issue where a timeout occurs when deploying a VM from the content library. It's more of an issue when the remote ESXi host is on a latent connection.
Example: I am deploying a 1GB template across a WAN link to a remote ESXi host (from US to Australia) and the timeout occurs. The actual content library deployment does go onto complete in vCenter, so it's not an issue there, it's just PowerCLI which times out after a short period of time (around 15 mins).
New-VM : 10/25/2017 3:23:00 AM New-VM The operation has timed out
At line:1 char:56
+ ... Appliance | New-VM -Name $ApplName -VMHost $SelectedHost -Datastore $ ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], ViError
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VICore_VMServiceImpl_DeployFromLibraryItem_Error,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Com
mands.NewVM
Originating template is on a VMFS datastore. Using latest PowerCLI version (6.5.3.6870462). Have tried the webtimeout but makes no difference. Ideally I would like it to wait until the deployment is complete, so I can change VM parameters and power on / open console. If this fails to work I will likely have to fallback to another method of deploying the OVA.
I also looked at doing this runasync / tasks but the inital job completes almost instantly and spawns multiple children which I found difficult to reliably track / wait against those.
Thanks in advance!
