Wait-Task - The operation has timed out

[ePoy]

if i use the command sequence:

$objTask = New-VM -Name $hostname -ResourcePool $objCluster -ContentLibraryItem $objContentLibrary -Location $objFolder -Datastore $objDatastoreCluster -RunAsync

write-host "Deploy OVF Template: Starting Job..."

Wait-Task $objTask

After some time the error is returned:

Wait-Task : 19/06/2017 14:05:49    Wait-Task        19/06/2017 13:54:45    Wait-Task The operation has timed out

At line:1 char:1

+ Wait-Task $objTask

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

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Wait-Task], ViError

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : VICore_VMServiceImpl_DeployFromLibraryItem_Error,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.WaitTask

Even giving this error I realized that in vcenter there are still two tasks: Deploy OVF package from Content Library to Resource Pool and then the Deploy OVF template

This two tasks are executed with sucess and vm was created even with the timeout error.

Note: The template has 25GB

Task	Start Time	Final Time	Time Elapsed	Status
Wait-task	14:29:46	14:49:46	00:20:00	Error
Fetch Content of a Library Item	14:29:46	14:30:00	00:00:14	Sucess
Deploy OVF package from Content Library to Resource Pool	14:29:46	15:01:20	00:31:34	Sucess
Deploy OVF Template	14:30:13	15:01:19	00:31:06	Sucess

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Did you already try using a Get-Task in a loop?

You could for example check the status of the Task every 10 seconds.

Something like this

do{

    sleep 10

    $task = Get-Task -Id $taskId

}

until($task.Done)