vRA IAAS install taking hours - normal?

[beefy147]

Hello

I am going through the wonderful pain which is the vRA IAAS installation (why is it so crazy!?)

anyway I am trying to establish if its normal for it to take around 2hrs (last time failed at 1hr 50 mins so trying again now)

most blogs and videos I have read (I have read most!) say it "takes a while" / "takes a few minutes"

any opinions appreciated

[abhilashhb]

Yes. I definitely does not take hours. Did you check the logs after it failed the first time?

[beefy147]

just waiting for it to fail again and will post logs. I have been through approximately 20 attempts and read many blogs on what to change and configure. its beyond frustrating. Thanks for comfirming what i thought (that it shouldnt take 2 hours to install!)

how long should it take (roughly?)

[beefy147]

OK to the install passed! I am very happy but wanted to note the part which took 2 hours (120 minutes)

doesnt seem right. every other step took seconds to 5 minutes max.

Executing:"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\ConfigTool\vCAC-Config.exe" /S "/P:C:\Users\ADMIN-~2\AppData\Local\Temp\1\vCAC\Msi\ConfigToolProperties.vCAC-Server-ConfigTool.xml" "/L:C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\InstallLogs\vCAC-Config.log"

Execution time:7242.562

[abhilashhb]

Hmmm do you have less resources for the IaaS host?

That's the only reason i can think of. Anyway good to know it finally installed and that too without issues

Update - just checked my last install and it has completed in 11 minutes :smileysilly:

Message was edited by: Abhilashhb

[GrantOrchardVMw]

I'd be curious to know what it's installing onto, that is *really* slow.

Grant

[iliketurbos]

do you have a load balancer? are all your iaas services split out? ours are. what are you lb settings ? what version of sql? and gpos that have iis locked down?

our iaas box is painfully slow in 2 different inviroments, I even made a new ou blocked all gpos and added all the vcac sites to the local intranet, box is 2 x 8 and just SITS there. this last upgrade took 3 hours. the part that takes the longest it seems... is

and this is after tonights testing. this is totally gonna suck

[2/16/2015 7:48:23 PM]InstallRepoModel:

[2/16/2015 7:48:23 PM]  ##InstallRepoModel Install Repository Models

[2/16/2015 7:48:23 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Assembly-SqlInstall -f  .\DynamicOps.Core.Common.dll",".\DynamicOps.Core.External.dll",".\DynamicOps.Core.Licensing.dll",".\DynamicOps.ManagementModel.Common.dll",".\DynamicOps.VMWareModel.Common.dll",".\DynamicOps.ReportsModel.Common.dll" -s dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2 -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  --overwrite -v

[2/16/2015 7:48:31 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 7:48:32 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.ManagementModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\ManagementModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

[2/16/2015 8:01:52 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:01:52 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 8:01:52 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.AmazonWSModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\AmazonWSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

[2/16/2015 8:09:50 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:09:50 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 8:09:50 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.UcsModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\UcsModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

[2/16/2015 8:17:01 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:17:01 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 8:17:01 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.ScvmmModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\ScvmmModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v [2/16/2015 8:23:29 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:23:29 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 8:23:29 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.VMWareModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\VMWareModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

[2/16/2015 8:29:56 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:29:56 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 8:29:56 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.VCNSModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\VCNSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

[2/16/2015 8:37:26 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:37:26 PM]  Command completed.

[2/16/2015 8:37:26 PM]  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f ".\DynamicOps.WorkQueueModel.dll" -s "dc1-sql03.corp.allscripts.com\corp2" -d "vcac02-iaas-db01"  -c ".\WorkQueueModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

[2/16/2015 8:44:01 PM]  Stop and restart your Internet services for the changes to take effect if you are reinstalling the model.

[2/16/2015 8:44:01 PM]  Command completed.

[beefy147]

sounds painful

we had the fips algorithm policy set my GPO which caused problems (since fixed)

not running a load balancer. running a POC (badly!) in a lab environment with the most basic of installs

as i have posted in other threads i have no managed to "break" the iaas-service and vco so they no longer show as REGISTERED in the appliance but just blank. I think im going to have to rebuild yet again. havent even got close to publishing machines for building. compared with other VMware products this is just crazy