Hi,
Continued post on this subject as I am getting nowhere.
Autodeploy in my lab, 2 hosts. VSphere 5.5b
First host that I created my host profile from reboots from the profile no problem. second host reboots, and it comes up, does the disconnect and reconnect but the profile is not applied on the reconnect and it stays in maintenance mode and it does not have the distributed virtual switch... it has a temporary standard virtual switch. And it is non-compliant. If I apply the profile, it says it is now compliant and the networking is sorted and the dVs is now present... sweet, so seems to be nothing preventing the application of the host profile.
I've changed the reference host to the second host and updated the profile, same thing.
Checkd syslog.log.... the two hosts syslog during reboots look the same.
Basically, the first host boots, it then says disconnect host, reconnect and the apply host profile and exits maintenance mode.
The second host boots, says disconnect host, reconnects and that is it, stays in maintenance mode. There is no error message, the logs don't tell me anything and it doesn't exit maintenance. mode.
tearing what little hair I have left out. I'm proposing to roll this out in our SaaS division and our development data centers, but not if I can't figure this out.