HP CloudSystem Matrix How-To Guide: ESXi Cluster Provisioning

Action

Use the administrator credentials for the RSJRAS Windows service. For more information,

see "Step 7: Enter CMS Administrator credentials in Windows service RSJRAS."

Make sure that the ESXi host password set in the step of configuring OO properties is

sufficiently complex. For more information, see "Password Complexity" at

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=server_config/c_p

assword_complexity.html#1_14_9_9_8_1.

Issue

Failure message:

Task for checking if Logical Server <ls_name> is up has failed. The Logical

Server is not reachable. Logical server job (ID = <ls_ID>) completed with a

failure status. Failure: No value for xpath:

/logicalSubnets/logicalIPAddresses[id=''].

Possible cause

The ESXi host is not licensed in vCenter.

Action

Make sure that the ESXi host is correctly licensed in vCenter.

Issue

While OO workflow 80_CreateHostProfile_group_end is running, the following message

appears:

Could not create the host profile for the cluster, possible causes: a) vCenter

is not running; b) Wrong vCenter's credentials were supplied; c) Wrong

vCenter's IP/hostname were supplied; d) DataCenter or cluster does not yet

exist (this is a pre-condition in order to create the cluster's host profile);

e) Reference VM host not deployed or not started. Please check if any of those

conditions are not covered and try again.

Possible cause

The blades being used in provisioning are not homogeneous with respect to processor

architecture.

Action

Make sure that the server pools used in the creation request are homogeneous.

Issue

While 90_AssignVMHostsToPool_group_end is running, the following message

appears:

Could not complete the addition of vmhosts to pool, please execute it

manually.

Possible cause

The blades being used in provisioning are not homogeneous with respect to

processor architecture.

Action

Ensure that the server pools used in the create/add request are homogeneous.