Host Profile Network Disconnect with Autodeploy

[Shaffan33]

I am using Autodeploy to deploy hosts in the environment (5.5).  The server has a DHCP reservation and seems to pick that up without issue.  When it goes to apply the host profile, the host reboots and it comes back up disconnected with a 0.0.0.0 IP address.  The host profile applies no network settings so this shouldn't be an issue.  Anyone seen this before?

[crawfordm]

After the host profile is applied, do you see a task in the recent tasks bar that the host is rebooting or is it rebooting from a crash?  After it reboots does it receive an IP from DHCP and start the autodeploy process?

I would manually assign it an ip, reconnected it to vCenter and manually apply the host profile and see what happens.

[Shaffan33]

I watched it all the way through this time....It goes through "Starting up Services ...Running DCUI stop" for a long time then it does crash.  This is before it adds itself to vCenter though so I do not see any message in vCenter.

[crawfordm]

Sounds like you have driver issue with your autodeploy image.  Have you checked all your hardware against the HCL to ensure you have the correct driver in your autodeploy image?

[Shaffan33]

Thanks.  Do you know how I would determine what the issue is?  I am using the standard 5.5 offline bundle.

[crawfordm]

Use this article to help you determine if you have the correct drivers for the hardware you are using - VMware KB: Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x , then go to VMware Compatibility Guide: System Search to find the correct driver.

Once you have the correct driver, then you can add is the the offline bundle you downloaded - vSphere Documentation Center