Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory

VMware VDP Advanced 5.5 “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory”

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Rob Steele
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A quick troubleshooting blog… I recently came across this error when deploying the VMware VDP appliance: “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory”

I took a look a look at the following log file on the VDP appliance:
/opt/vmware/var/log/vami/vami-ovf.log

The following entries were present:

[info] [process id: 4062] Hostname property is not present, querying and setting hostname.
[info] [process id: 4062] Output:Host name has been set to localhost.localdom

From these entries I realized that I did not setup DNS for the new appliance. After creating  the entries I rebooted the appliance and retried the configuration wizard only to see the same thing.  I’m assuming at this point (and confirmed via the admin guide; page 17) that the appliance deployment relies on the DNS entries. I removed the previous deployment and also provisioned the appliance from the web client on the second pass and was able to configure without issue.

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2 responses to “VMware VDP Advanced 5.5 “Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory””

  1. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    Here is VMware knowledge base article on this problem (I was looking for the solution as well):

    “Test Connection in VDP Appliance fails with the error: Unable to find this VDP in the vCenter inventory (2062272)” :
    http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2062272

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  2. Chaminda Avatar
    Chaminda

    I also had the same issue. I tried to deploy via the Web Client, but no luck. Finally I overcome the issue by following command on SSH session of VDP.
    hostname vdp.mydomain.com

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