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Seekso
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[vRA 8.0] Error using ABX extensibility

Hello the community.

I'm currently trying to use the new ABX functionality in vRA 8.0 to do a simple thing, rename the VM before the provisioning.

First of all I create a new action based on the embedded script (I tried both Python and JS versions of the script)

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Then I create a new subscription based on the topic compute.allocation.pre (which I guess is the right topic to rename a resource)

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Finally I ask for a test blueprint to be provisioned. I can see that the ABX action is called in the "Action Runs".

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But the blueprint systematically failed with the error : "Extensibility triggered task failure: Extensibility error for topic compute.allocation.pre: [10040] Image creation KJob is NOT completed!"

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Does anyone succeed to deploy a VM customizing the name ?

Maybe I'm using the wrong way, but there is a serious lack of documentation about extensibility capacities, which if for me one of the most important part of vRA.

Thanks for your help ! Smiley Happy

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itrudeau
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Hello Seekso.

You will not have to relaying on ABX for custom name of you resource machine.

you can simply use a custom naming template in you project and use input in you blueprint.

Here how you can doying this.

In cloud assembly.

Go to Infrastructure --> Projects

Select your Project.

click the Provisioning tab.

scroll down to section "Custom Naming (Beta).

Input in the template field : ${resource.name}

on your blueprint simply create a input:

EX:

inputs:

  hostname:

    type: string

    default: none

resources:

  vSphere_Machine:

    type: Cloud.vSphere.Machine

    properties:

      name: '${input.hostname}'

This will rename the vm with the input hostname.

I hope this help out.

Regards.

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kumar6384
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Hi,

Add the "customProperties" before your input parameters.

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Thanks.

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stevedrummond
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Your job is failing because the container for on-prem ABX extensibility has not been installed; it does not come with the appliances.

I am assuming you are behind a Proxy otherwise it would have worked. You will need to follow the KB (VMware Knowledge Base) to configure your proxy.

You will need to whitelist gcr.io, docker.io and storage.googleapis.com on your Proxy.

Also note that you will not be able to pull dependencies through the Proxy until at least 8.0.1 as it is not currently supported.

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Seekso
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Hello. It's a good idea, however I'm currently trying to use some more complicated use cases through the extensibility, and the most simple test is to rename the resource Smiley Happy

But I keep that in my mind.

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Seekso
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Hello. Thank for your answer. However this can't resolve my issue as even with a constant string ("MYVMNAME") in the script the rename action can't be executed. I think there is something I misunderstood with the output of ABX actions...

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