Saturday, July 27, 2013

vCD vApp Deployment Fails for vCAC Blueprints on Windows Administrator password setting

I ran across this while building a lab for a customer this week and hopefully this will save you a little time.  When I built the vApps in vCloud Director 5.1.2 I selected the "Reset Password" option in the VM Properties as shown below....



However, this setting in a vApp template causes the vCAC vApp deployment workflow to fail with the following error:

Error in workflow cleanup. [Workflow Instance Id=somenumber] Error customizing vApp. Inner Exception: The administrator password cannot be empty when it is enabled and automatic password generation is not selected.

This is a 'feature' of the vCD 5.1.2 API and not a problem with vCAC.  It seems that passing the administrator password through the API was removed as of that release.  I understand that this is likely to be changed back in a future release - and I'll try to remember to update this post if/when that happens.

For now, you will need to disable the password reset within the VM properties for any template you wish to deploy from a vCAC vApp blueprint.

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