vCAC 6.0 clone blueprint - selected template has been updated, now it does not appear in vCAC

[solgaeDK]

Hello everyone,

I have been playing around with vCAC 6.0 for quite some time (now updated to vCAC 6.0.1), and have created a blueprint that will clone from the template with Windows Server 2012 R2. Guest agent was not installed as I was only interested in getting the machine up and running with the customization spec created in vCenter.

The blueprint was working as expected after I created the service, catalog item, and entitlements. After that, I converted the template to VM in order to update the template with new Windows patches, and then convert it back to template. Now when I try to create a new blueprint, selected the clone workflow, and browse for template, the template I updated does not exist in the list. Curious, I also went to edit the existing blueprint and tried to browse for the template, and it doesn't appear on the list anymore. In fact, I have created a linux template (CentOS) at one point after installing vCAC, and I can't see that from the list as well.

Any idea on what's going on? The logs in Infrastructure tab -> Monitoring -> Log wasn't indicating any errors, and I already tried rebooting all vCAC components, including a restart of all services in the IaaS server.

[qc4vmware · Accepted solution]

You likely need to manually kick off the inventory data collection on the compute resource where the template lives.

[solgaeDK]

Yes, in fact, I just found out that data collection of the inventory happens once per day by default. Had to login as fabric admin to see the data collection option since I had it added as a vSphere endpoint.