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ESXi OVA v2 networking issue #5

Open einsteinagogo opened 2 years ago

einsteinagogo commented 2 years ago

Another issue, which I've got documented in a video for Experts Exchange, that I'll add and this is a real puzzle, and I have now tried the script against 12 different vSphere 7.0 environments, different VCSA versions and host versions, different networking requirements and load balancing.

The resulting ESXi hosts cannot be contacted, from outside the vSphere Cluster, and the ESXi hosts cannot communicate with each other or externally, although can obtain DHCP requests. (e.g. ping fails)

if the ESXi hosts have their Network settings, Restored to defaults using the DCUI (Network Restore) and IP Addresses added correctly as static, all returns to normal, as would be expected.

We've not observed this with a manual nested install of ESXi, just the OVA.

Any ideas, when the video has been published, I'll add here, and you can see in the demo.

einsteinagogo commented 2 years ago

here the published video, where the networking issue is demonstrated.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/videos/79633/HOW-TO-Automate-and-Deploy-a-VMware-vSphere-8-0-and-vSAN-8-Lab-using-a-PowerCLI-script.html

ajmt-dev commented 1 year ago

I have the same experience, deploying the OVA results with no networking ability (albeit everything looks to be configured ok). Resetting management network and manually keying in the same network details and the ESXi host works as expected.

If I deploy the same OVA image manually (via the vCenter WebUI) I get the same experience. No networking until I reset the management interface.