HA Depot Can't be added

[nwebb01]

Does anyone know if it's possible to add a HA depot with the VCSA? I get the following error:

Add-EsxSoftwareDepot : Could not download from depot at http://vcenterserver/vSphere-ha-depot/index.xml, skipping

(('http://vcenterservervSphere-ha-depot/index.xml', '', '[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found'))

At line:1 char:1

+ Add-EsxSoftwareDepot http://vcenterserver/vSphere-ha-depot

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

    + CategoryInfo          : ReadError: (System.String[]:String[]) [Add-EsxSoftwareDepot], Exception

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConnectDepotError,VMware.ImageBuilder.Commands.AddDepot

I've used this command several times when setting up auto deploy with windows vCenter servers and never had this error.  I'm running VCSA 6.0. ESXI hosts are ESXi 6 U2.

Thanks.

[peetz · Accepted solution]

Hi,

the correct URL is

http://vcenterserver/vSphere-HA-depot/index.xml

Case matters, because this is Linux not Windows 🙂

- Andreas

[nwebb01]

Unfortunately, that gave the same error as before. Any other ideas?

[peetz]

Strange, this works for me.

On the VCSA the files are in

/etc/vmware-vpx/docRoot/vSphere-HA-depot

Can you ssh into the appliance and check whether this directory exists and includes files like VMware-fdm-6.0.0-3634794-metadata.zip and index.xml?