Thanks Aaron, So from the VCL front end before going to manage ->create update images , I need to rename it in the edit details from the edit image profiles menu or are you referring to capturing an image from scratch(base image) and not a revision?
David DeMizio *Academic Systems Coordinator* Office of Information Technology New College of Florida Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 www.ncf.edu On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Aaron Coburn <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't use vmware 5.5, but on earlier versions that use vCenter, there is > an issue where, if a virtual machine name is longer than 29 characters, > vmware will silently truncate the name and append an incrementable > (numerical) value. To a user of vCenter the name appears correct, though in > the underlying datastore, it is actually different (even though the vmware > documentation explain that any VM can have names up to 80 characters in > length). > > I thought there was code in place to handle this, but I could be mistaken. > In any case, the simple way around it is to give your image a shorter name > when you initiate the capture. Then, once the image capture is complete, > you can rename it to anything you'd like through the VCL web front-end. > > -Aaron > > > > On Feb 25, 2014, at 5:03 PM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, I'm trying to create a new revision of an image and it keeps > failing when it tries to reload. I think part of the problem is that the > master image file the it creates when it clones the source ends in > 00001.vmdk and VCL is expected just <name of image > .vmdk. any idea what > might be causing this? belong is a snippet of the log, please let me know > if you need more. FYI, We recently upgraded to esxi 5.5 so I'm trying to > upgrade the virtual hardware and VMware tools on the image.The golden image > contains a file like the one listed below but VCL is expecting a different > name.. > > vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5-000001.vmdk > > |31438|19:19|reload| ---- CRITICAL ---- > |31438|19:19|reload| 2014-02-25 > 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|new.pm:reload_image(639)|vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5 > does not exist on management node and could not be retrieved > |31438|19:19|reload| ( 0) new.pm, reload_image (line: 639) > |31438|19:19|reload| (-1) new.pm, process (line: 291) > |31438|19:19|reload| (-2) vcld, make_new_child (line: 571) > |31438|19:19|reload| (-3) vcld, main (line: 350) > 2014-02-25 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|utils.pm:insertloadlog(3666)|inserted > computer=4, failed, requested image does not exist on management node and > could not be retrieved > |31438|19:19|reload| ---- WARNING ---- > |31438|19:19|reload| 2014-02-25 > 16:55:41|31438|19:19|reload|new.pm:process(339)|failed > to load vcl-n-001 with vmwarewin7-SocialScience27-v5 > > > > > >
