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stephendotcarte
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Different guestinfo.ovfEnv behaviour between vCenter vs vSphere HA power on?

Hi,

I've been searching but could not find any related documentation.


I have a Linux VM which sets it's IP during boot up based on guestinfo.ovfEnv settings.

But after a vSphere HA event the command 'vmtoolsd --cmd "guestinfo.ovfEnv"' returns "No value found".


From testing this happens every time the VM is brought up automatically after a HA event.

If I power off/on the VM then vmtoolsd returns the correct ovfEnv settings.


From testing I found the following:

Power on fromguestinfo.ovfEnv accessible?
Manual power on from vCenterYes
Auto power on after vSphere HA eventNo
Manual power on from ESX using vim-cmdNo

I've tested this on Linux and Windows VM using older and newest VM tools 10.1.0.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour before?

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