Hello,

I'm planning on deploying vSphere 8 using AutoDeploy and Host Profiles for a stateful installation. So far the autodeploy piece works as expected as I am able to PXE boot my new host and download the correct image from the autodeploy. Once the image is downloaded and installed, I can see the new host show up in my vCenter inventory under maintenance mode.

When I remediated the freshly installed host for the first time, I noticed that although the hostname and IP changed as a result of the host customization settings which is expected but soon after the host lost connectivity and became unmanageable. The reason was due to the vmk0 interface being removed by the remediation.

I am not sure if this strange issue is a bug or a host profile configuration issue. Every time I try to apply the host profile that I created from a working host,  I noticed that one of the steps included is to remove the vmk0 adapter from the management network which basically disconnects the host and the remediation never completes due to this.

I have disabled the default gateway override for the vmk0 interface from the host I am using to extract the image from. I have also disabled IPV6 all together.  

Here are the steps I am seeing on the pre-check list:

The system will perform the following tasks:
Remove vSwitch vSwitch0
Create vSwitch vSwitch0
Create vSwitch vSwitch1
Remove port group VM Network from vSwitch vSwitch0
Remove port group Management Network from vSwitch vSwitch0
Create port group LAB_MGMT on vSwitch vSwitch1
Create port group LAB_VMS on vSwitch vSwitch1
Create port group Management Network on vSwitch vSwitch0
Create virtual network adapter for host on port group Management Network with IP address x.x.x.x and subnet mask x.x.x.x.
Remove virtual network adapter vmk0 from portgroup Management Network.
Configure physical network adapter vmnic4 to automatically negotiate the proper settings.
Configure physical network adapter vmnic6 to automatically negotiate the proper settings.
Configure time servers to be 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org,ntp1.goempyrean.com
Update the firewall configuration
Set option UserVars.HostClientCEIPOptIn with value 1
Set option Syslog.loggers.amsdv.rotate to its default value
Set option Syslog.loggers.amsdv.size to its default value
Set option Syslog.loggers.sut.rotate to its default value
Set option Syslog.loggers.sut.size to its default value
Setting the startup policy for service TSM to on
Setting the startup policy for service TSM-SSH to on
Setting the startup policy for service ntpd to on

Is there any other settings I need to change in order to remove or avoid the vmk0 removal as part of the remediation? The version of vCenter is 8 and the host I am using to extract the image from is also 8. Thanks!