Having upgraded my vRA instance in my HomeLab to 7.4 not long after it GA’d, I recently decided to create some nice, new templates as well. You know, latest patches, hardware, basic config etc.
I won’t bore you with exactly how I installed Windows, patched it or configured it. The relevant part of the process to this article was the installation of the vRA Guest Agent and subsequent testing of it.
I already had my vRA blueprint configured; just a simple Windows Server 2012 R2 template that has the vRealize LogInsight agent installed and configured on it automatically as part of the provision process:
Installing the vRA Guest Agent
This is a documented process to install the software agent on a Virtual Machine that is then subsequently turned in to a template. For vRA 7.4, the documentation can be found on VMware’s site:
Install the Guest Agent on a Windows Reference Machine
Prepare a Windows Reference Machine to Support Software
This worked without issue. I shutdown the machine, turned it in to a template and update my blueprint.
Testing the new template
This is where I ran in to an issue. Continue Reading