VM does not obtain a network interface
The open-vm-tools use scripts to manage network settings, and these tools require Perl.
Check the log at /var/log/vmware-imc/toolsDeployPkg.log to see if there is an error because Perl is not available:
Command to exec : /usr/bin/perl sizeof ProcessInternal is 56 Returning, pending output from stdout Returning, pending output from stderr Process exited normally after 0 seconds, returned 127
To fix this issue, do these steps:
On your VM, add a network interface
Install Perl
Optionally, upgrade open-vm-tools
Create a new OVA and save load it into Abiquo
VM is locked during deploy
When you are deploying a VM, it may take a very long time, and the VM may appear to be locked, but there are no messages in the logs. The cause of this problem may be a hard disk that is very large for your environment.
If you need to add a large empty disk to your VMs for application data, then the best way to do this is to add an “empty” hard disk to your VM template. After you create a VM from a template with an empty disk, you may be able to resize the empty disk. An empty hard disk should deploy more quickly than a “real disk with no data”.
See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311378488/Modify+VM+template+disks#Add-an-empty-disk and VM storage.
Conversions in progress
If a template or disk operation is unable to complete due to a system issue, it may seem to be in progress indefinitely. And when you try to delete a problem disk, you may see an error such as:
VIMAGE-30: "Cannot delete virtual machine template because conversions are in progress.
In this case, you may need to delete the disk directly in the file system or change the state of the VM template internally in the platform. Please contact Support for more information.
Effectively you will put your template into the NOT_AVAILABLE state. In the UI, this is called the Deleted state.
To display deleted templates in the Catalogue:
Open the Catalogue, select your datacenter and beside the datacenter name, click the round arrow Refresh button
Select the option to Show deleted templates
The platform will now display the deleted templates with the red X symbol as shown in the following screenshot
