Hi All,
I'm trying to perform a scripted installation of VMware vCSA 6.0 using the new vcsa-deploy but I'm hitting a strange error that I'm not quite sure how to resolve (the last entry in the log says permission denied which is weird).
The process I have been through is:
Overview:
- Extract the downloaded vCSA 6.0 ISO to my local machine
- Upload the extracted vCSA 6.0 directories to my Linux server: /home/vi-admin/vmware-vcsa
- Set the +x flag on the vcsa-deploy script and on the ovftool/ovftool.bin files
- Customise the /templates/full_conf.json file for my deployment and copy it into /vcsa-cli-installer/lin64 for ease
- Change my working directory to be /vcsa-cli-installer/lin64
- Execute ./vcsa-deploy full_conf.json
- At this point, I get the below error message
Error:
Start vCSA command line installer to deploy vCSA "Server01", an embedded node.
Please see /tmp/vcsa-cli-installer-P2jqzslog for logging information.
Run installer with "-v" or "--verbose" to log detailed information.
The SSO password meets the installation requirements.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/toolchain/lin64/cx-Freeze-4.3.3/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console.py", line 27, in <module>
File "install.py", line 198, in <module>
File "install.py", line 106, in check_database
File "/build/toolchain/lin64/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 672, in __init__
File "/build/toolchain/lin64/python-2.7.1/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1202, in _execute_child
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Note 1: I have tried running this from under both the vi-admin and root accounts with the same result.
Note 2: I appreciate you can run this from either an OSX or Windows box but I need to deploy this from a Linux server and SUSE11SP3 seems to be the only officially supported platform hence you probably guessed that I am running this on the vMA 6 server.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated 
Cheers
Andy
Accepted Solutions
In follow up to this when enabling verbose logs and tailing what it has written, there are no obvious error messages however the last command executed was:
vCSASCliInstallLogger - DEBUG - Run command: /home/vi-admin/vmware-vcsa/vcsa-cli-installer/lin64/jre/bin/java -jar /home/vi-admin/vmware-vcsa/vcsa-cli-installer/dbchecker/dbchecker.jar servername/VCDB vpxuser ******
Taking this into account:
- I changed my working directory to the dbchecker and ran the java -jar dbchecker.jar
- As expected it asked for parameters, so in theory as long as the parameters coming from my json file are fine then this "should" work
- After looking at my json file again, I noticed that my database type was set to external hence the error message; changing to embedded partially resolved the issue in that another error message was presented (below)
The SSO password meets the installation requirements.
Error: failed to read from file: vmware-vcsa
Completed with errors
Gathering VC support log bundle. This can take a few minutes.
Failed to gather VC support bundle. Details: Failed to find VM: ServerName
Checking my log file didn't reveal anything useful but searching for the above file which failed pointed me to what is/was the OVA specified in my json file, looks like I fat fingered the path hence the error message.
Re-running the command after making the relevant changes and off it went, ovftool kicked in and started to deploy; in theory I should have a deployed vCenter server soon
Root Cause: human error
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