Hi Reg,
Here some answer to your questions :
Is it a standard or distributed vswitch?
==> we are using standard Vswitch on our ESX
Have you registered the nodes using vCentre admin privileges?
==> I'm using an ESX account with administrator privileges
How many portgroups you have created?
==> we count 20 port groups configured on the ESX servers
Is there any VLAN tagging set on them?
==> No
I had a look to /opt/netapp/log/sdotadmin_server.log, but found nothing more
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2017-07-11 13:24:34,859|DEBUG Got data and status code (200)
Got data and status code (200)
2017-07-11 13:24:35,406|DEBUG response body: {"code":51,"details":"Error during configuration of vnics: InvalidRequestFault","type":"Err"}
response body: {"code":51,"details":"Error during configuration of vnics: InvalidRequestFault","type":"Err"}
2017-07-11 13:24:35,408|ERROR |client_api_helper.py|183:vm_create| Error: NodeCreateFailed: Node "chgvavnapt21" create failed: Error during configuration of vnics: InvalidRequestFault.
|client_api_helper.py|183:vm_create| Error: NodeCreateFailed: Node "chgvavnapt21" create failed: Error during configuration of vnics: InvalidRequestFault.
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I also checked the esxadmin.log file, and maybe found somethings, see below
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[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:22:54 2017] [21870] Validating OVF package contents ...
[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:22:59 2017] [21870] Creating VM chgvavnapt21 on chgvasesxt08.
[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:23:07 2017] [21870] Uploading system disks to VM chgvavnapt21 ...
[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:24:34 2017] [21870] Marked system disks independent-persistent
[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:24:34 2017] [21870] Configuring Network ...
[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:24:35 2017] [21870] Error encountered while creating VM
[INFO] [Tue Jul 11 13:24:35 2017] [21870] [13] InvalidArg: <scsiC:N> invalid - Invalid/missing disk 'scsi0:0'
[ERROR] [Tue Jul 11 13:24:35 2017] [21870] [51] Err: Error during configuration of vnics: InvalidRequestFault
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I had a look the the cluster node setting on ESX chgvavnapt21 and found one disk attached : "Hard disk 1" on SCSI (0:0)
Regards
Dominique