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Ultimate Deployment Appliance

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/232

Deploy your favorite OS by pressing F12, bring your own ISO's, we'll do the rest

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_the_dude_
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I found some time and added esx41i support to the UDA. Also decided this

may be a good time to drop the beta label. So build 17 is the 2.0 final

release. It's available at www.ultimatedeployment.org !

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Aristizabal
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Hello,

I just downloaded the UDA2.0 Beta version, and everything was going smoothly until I get to configure the storage for the UDA.

I tried to mount and NFS share and I got no messages at all. I verified from inside the UDA VM and the share is mounted and accessible, but the web interface shows nothing. Then I switched to local storage and uploaded an ESX ISO file, now I can select the ISO and the process completes successfully, but for some reason the OS I just added doesn't show up on the OS tab, after trying with different browsers it finally showed up. But my problem now is that when I create a template nothing shows up on the list, only empty boxes that I can modify, but everything is empty on the "General|Subtemplates|Advanced" tabs. I have followed different tutorials but the web interface is acting strangely, so I can't follow any of them.

Also tried changing the browser, with the same results (IE7, Firefox, Chrome).

The UDA seems like a great tool, but nothing is working as expected. Any help is highly appreciated.

Juan.

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unsichtbare
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Excellent info and thanks!

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slayer199
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Has anyone been able to get the UDA working with ESXi 4.1? The UDA worked great with ESX but since we've gone to ESXi, fully automating the build has been difficult.

I'm able to get it to do the initial install and IP configuration but I can't seem to get it working on post-boot install tasks like DNS, hosts file modification, firewall, HP-SIM agents, etc. Granted, it doesn't take a lot of time to do it from the GUI (or from vCLI), but if you add it up when deploying to a large number of hosts it's tedious...especially since we have it set up for DR (DR host will spin up hosts using the UDA as needed).

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vmwvirt
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Mike / Or THEDude .,

Installed the UDA Applaice under VMware workstation 7.x . After powering on the appliance tried connecting to the same using different browsers and it failed every time.

I could ping the address from outside , I can login to appliance console with root credentials. No web interface ..

Not sure where I am going wrong. Please help

Thanks

Virt

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vmwvirt
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Mike / Or THEDude .,

Installed the UDA Applaice under VMware workstation 7.x . After powering on the appliance tried connecting to the same using different browsers and it failed every time.

I could ping the address from outside , I can login to appliance console with root credentials. No web interface ..

Not sure where I am going wrong. Please help

Thanks

Virt

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Nemo7777
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Hi there!

I have same error - I can't see on web interface OS, which was created there before. But in my case all work correct, until I decided to recreate this UDA vmachine from downloaded archive - since this the problem began.

If web-interface so unstable, can somebody describe how to do same job for OS deployment (ESX deployment in my case), but via CLI? Where and which config-files are necessary to modify?

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vmwvirt
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Unable to use the same .

No Web access .. can any one guide me ?

UDA is reachable on the network . Firewall and anti virus turned off . Can log in to UDA 2.0 Console with root credentials .

When trying to reach the same through browser , getting the prompt for credentials , After submitting root and password the page returns to the same verify credentials stage .

where Am I going wrong , any help is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Virt

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Michelle_Laveri
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Silly question I know - but has the web-service actually started?

Can you telnet w.x.y.z 80

Can ask where did you download the UDA from? RTFM or ultimatedeployment.org?






Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

Author of the SRM Book:http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2010/03/22/new-administrating-vmware-site-recovery-manager-4-0/

Free PDF or at-cost Hard Copy

Regards
Michelle Laverick
@m_laverick
http://www.michellelaverick.com
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vmwvirt
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ps -a | grep httpd showing httpd as running .

Virt

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vmadmin20111014
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Hello ,

I have delpoyed UDA on my vmware workstation 6.0 .

Now I am trying to install solaris os using UDA.

What i did:

Mounted the solaris x86 iso image using the web interface.  I also creted the template using create new template menu.

Now I am stuck.

Could you tell me what to do next ...I need some steps ahead so that i can install solaris..

I really appreciate.

Thanks

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_the_dude_
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Once you've imported the OS and created the template, you should be able to fire up another virtual machine and press F12 there.

Create an empty virtual machine with 1024Mb of memory, 10Gb IDE harddrive and an AMD network card (not the Intel E1000).

Fire that up, Press F12 and you should get a menu with the only choice being the template you've created.

Select it and press enter in order to deploy Solaris 10 X86 to that empty virtual machine.

Let me know if that worked for you!

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vmadmin20111014
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Yes...I did the same as you told...

When I boot the new vm created...and pressed  f12....it tries to get the the image through DHCP... but then throws an error that OS not found ..

Any idea?

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radio
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Hi all,

just started to play around with UDA 2 built 17 and I'm not a Linux guru, so please forgive me if I'm asking silly things Smiley Happy

I tried to mount a share on a Windows file server via GUI (also shell), but failed with a return code -22, no matter what I did. A colleague had a look at it and found that no samba client was installed in the appliance, installed the rpm, and voila, suddenly the CIFS mounting works.

I thought/expected that mounting CIFS would work out of the box or am I missing something?

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Michelle_Laveri
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Sorry!

Gone thru the forum and deleted all my unwanted "out of office" messages.

Sorry for the inconvience caused!

Regards
mike

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Michelle Laverick
@m_laverick
http://www.michellelaverick.com
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TheSavage
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I am getting and odd error when attempting to load vSphere 4.1 using UDA. At the PXE load it acquires an IP address and then I get the error "Server error accessing the database." At which point it asks me to press any key to continue. After pressing a key it will reboot.  Strangely, it was working fine until about a week ago.  Any thoughts on what could be causing this?

John

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adam_a-gent_co_
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Hi,

I recently applied the patch for beta Windows 7 support.

This functionality works great, however I can no longer edit templates for other operating systems (e.g. Linux, ESX) as once you click configure the page opens but with blank pages (and the subtemplates/advanced options are not clickable).

Any ideas/fixes?

Thanks,

Adam

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LeoKurz2
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Edited to remove Out of Office details

Message was edited by: Tom Howarth - Community Moderator

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PeterKuykendall
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First, thanks for helping to support this great product.  I have several questions.

Background:

I have successfuly installed DBAN 1.07 per forum posts.  I have successfully installed Win2K and XP using normal procedures.

FlavorOS IDOperating SystemMounted
d107manualManual ConfigurationMounted
XPPROOEMwindows5Windows 2000,XP,2003Mounted
Win2Kwindows5Windows 2000,XP,2003Mounted

1 - Need to solve a problem installing Ubuntu

I tried to install Ubuntu using normal procedures.  CD image is ubuntu-10.04.2-alternate-i386.iso      .


It imported fine, but when I try to create a template to use it, there is no "flavor" for what I just uploaded.  If fact the pick list of "flavors" is empty.  Perhaps this is because I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 alternate install CD image, which may be newer than what is supported?  It seems that the forum posts at both VMware and Ultimatedeployment.org are pretty stale (several months).

Here is the import status screen, all appears well.

ActionDescriptionProgressStatusRun statusStart DateStart Time
9801Import flavor U-10-04-LTS-i386-alt (ubuntu)100 %SuccessfullCompleted2011-05-2903:58

But here is the screen when I try to create a new template for Ubuntu.  Notice that the "Flavor" list is empty.  When I click on the arrow next to "Flavor" it opens an empty list.

Screenshot.png

2 - What log files are relevent to try to debug this?

3 - Is there any documentation laying out the schema of how everything is managed, so that we can debug these things better ourselves?  For example, when a "flavor" is uploaded, what is the database that knows that?  When I go to associate a new template with a "flavor", and that "flavor" is not in the list, how do I know where to look?

4 - Is this project still active, in stasis, or abandoned?  Where is it best supported?  It seems like the support is split between here (communities.vmware.com) and the forum (http://ultimatedeployment.org/forum), but both are pretty stale.  Has one been abandoned, i.e. should we just use the more active one?

Thanks very much!

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_the_dude_
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Peter,

Here's some thing you could check/try:

  • Disk space: there may not be enough space to host the boot files of

ubuntu. As a result the flavor configuration file may not have been

written (bug). Check diskspace with System->Diskspace. If you're out of

diskspace you can shut down the appliance, add a new virtual scsi disk and

turn it on again. Then go back to System->Diskspace, hightlight the full

volume and click 'Extend'. Highlight the disk you just added and click

'Apply'

  • I remember making a sanity check for flavor names, but I think it was

for windows only. You may want to try with a short name like ub101. That

may work better.

  • See if you can find the flavor configuration file.

It should be in /var/public/conf/os/[flavor].conf

  • In the Sytem menu you can go to 'Actions' and go to the details of the

import ubuntu action (9801). That may give you more error messages that

make more sense.

  • More messages may be in the httpd log files: /var/public/log/httpd_error

and /var/public/log/httpd_access

  • You may want to try a supported version of ubuntu. Default ubuntu CD's

wont work, you always need the alternate (default has no pxe files on it).

Let me know what you found!

PeterKuykendall

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