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Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

MKguy — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:05:47 GMT

I'm running into what seems like a bug when deploying a VM from template via New-VM to a Datastore Cluster while using the DiskStorageFormat option.

The following code throws an error:

New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster MyCluster1) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster MyDatastoreCluster1) -Template (Get-Template MyTemplate) -DiskStorageFormat Thin



New-VM : 19.03.2014 12:51:11
New-VM



Required property datastore is missing from data object of type VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.RelocateSpec.DiskLocator
at line 1, column 1073
while parsing property "disk" of static type ArrayOfVirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.RelocateSpec
at line 1, column 1017
while parsing property "location" of static type VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.CloneSpec
at line 1, column 1006
while parsing property "cloneSpec" of static type VirtualMachineCloneSpec
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.storageDrs.StoragePlacementSpec
at line 1, column 324
while parsing call information for method RecommendDatastores
at line 1, column 218
while parsing SOAP body
at line 1, column 207
while parsing SOAP envelope
at line 1, column 38
while parsing HTTP request for method recommendDatastores
on object of type vim.StorageResourceManager



at line 1, column 0
In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1



+ New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




+ CategoryInfo      
: NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], InvalidRequest



+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmServiceImpl_ApplySdrsRecommendation_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

Omitting -DiskStorageFormat however works fine:

New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster MyCluster1) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster MyDatastoreCluster1) -Template (Get-Template MyTemplate)

Using a Datastore object instead of a DatastoreCluster object while keeping -DiskStorageFormat also works fine:

New-VM -Name "testvm" -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster MyCluster1) -Datastore (Get-DatastoreCluster MyDatastoreCluster1 | Get-Datastore | Select -first 1) -Template (Get-Template MyTemplate) -DiskStorageFormat Thin

It doesn't matter whether Thin, Thick or EagerzeroedThick is specified for DiskStorageFormat. Creating a new VM from scratch (no Template) also works fine in all cases

It worked without any issues before I upgraded to PowerCLI 5.5 R2. (Was using PowerCLI 5.1 R2 before)

Get-PowerCLIVersion

PowerCLI Version

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 2 build 1671586

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Snapin Versions

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VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1598391

VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1598391

VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1265954

VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1671576

VMware VDS vSphere PowerCLI Component 4.1.1 build 000001

VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.5 build 1671576

VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 5.1 build 782803

The target environment I'm connected to is running vCenter 5.1U2 and ESXi 5.1U2.

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

LucD — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:51:33 GMT

I can confirm, I get the same error messages.

Looks like you might have found an issue

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

MKguy — Tue, 20 May 2014 13:08:22 GMT

VMware engineering is working on this issue and planning to release a fix with the next PowerCLI release.

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

np123 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:53:12 GMT

I'm seeing the same error with PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1 build 2057893.

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

JVidanez — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:27:17 GMT

Hello all,

Any one knows if they are going to sort out this?

Is there any bug number open to follow?

Regards,

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

samalone — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:48:44 GMT

I'm seeing the same issue with the new 6.0 version of PowerCLI:

PowerCLI Version

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 build 2548067

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Component Versions

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VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2358282

VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2358282

VMware License PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2315846

VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2548068

VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2548068

VMware VDS PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2548068

VMware vCloud Director PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2512755

VMware HA PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2510422

VMware vCloud Air PowerCLI Component 6.0 build 2512755

VMware PowerCLI Component for Storage Management 6.0 build 2522368

Thanks,

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

Dean_H — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:43:12 GMT

I can confirm this is still an issue as well :smileycry:

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

dsaydon — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:28:31 GMT

Until the fix you can use meanwhile instead of get the datastore cluster:

Get-DatastoreCluster -Name ####

The command to get direct datastore with the most aviliable free space:

$DataStoreSystem = (Get-DatastoreCluster -Name ###### | Get-Datastore | sort -Property "FreeSpaceGB" -Descending)[0].name

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

calabaria — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:42:01 GMT

Still a problem in 6.5.

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

kondrichRHI — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:53:41 GMT

The bug is still present in version PowerCLI 6.5.1.

Re: Error when specifying DiskStorageFormat during Template deployment in PowerCLI 5.5 R2

CloudServices — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:50:49 GMT

still a bug in

PowerCLI Version

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VMware PowerCLI 11.0.0 build 10380590

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Component Versions

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VMware Cis Core PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 6983166

VMware VimAutomation Core PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 6234650

VMware Licensing PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 5375648

VMware Vds PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 5374428

VMware Cloud PowerCLI Component 6.5 build 5375799

VMWare ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 6.6 build 6997673

VMWare AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 6.6 build 6997673

	+ CategoryInfo	: NotSpecified: (:) [New-VM], InvalidRequest
	+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmServiceImpl_ApplySdrsRecommendation_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM