Re: Unattended installation of vSphere

Hey ,

One Question  - What was your  value for LS_URL=https://XXXXXXXXX:7444/lookupservice/sdk - IP or HostName/FQDN

I had the same problem today. I think the issue is down to DNS. I replaced my FQDN with IP address and it worked fine. If you run through the install manually there is an Error that would receive see below if FQDN was used. My Guess is that the command line install is unable to suppress this error. I Tried in vain to fool it with hostfiles but that didn't help

BTW i used Powershell to run my version of the install

    # Inventory Service installation

    Write-Host "Installing Inventory Service" -ForegroundColor Green

    $exe = "Z:\Inventory Service\VMware-inventory-service.exe"

    $args = '/s /v" INSTALLDIR=E:\vCenter\ QUERY_SERVICE_NUKE_DATABASE=1 SSO_ADMIN_USER=\"administrator@vsphere.local\" SSO_ADMIN_PASSWORD=\"secret\"'

    $args = $args + ' LS_URL=\"https://192.168.101.153:7444/lookupservice/sdk\" HTTPS_PORT=10443 FEDERATION_PORT=10111 XDB_PORT=10109'

    $args = $args + ' TOMCAT_MAX_MEMORY_OPTION=M /L*v \"C:\temp\inventoryservice_install.log\" /qr"'

    Write-host $exe $args 

    Start-process $exe $args -Wait

Hope this Helps.

Regards

Cliff