Re: VSC will only rapid clone one VM

txfichter · ‎2016-03-16

I have been using rapid clone to deploy a bunch of VMs for a new project. It has been working fine so far, two clones here three clones there. But now when I try to use it to deploy five clones it wont allow it, in fact if I choose anything more than one clone it gives me a red bar and won't let me continue. All of this happened in the course of a day, no changes have been made to anything. Any help would be appreciated.

VSC Version: 6.1.0.5250

vCenter Version: 5.5.0 3252642

georgevj · ‎2016-03-17

Do you have a screen shot or log file entry to share with the community?

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txfichter · ‎2016-03-17

I have attached a screenshot, not much to see. Which log should I be looking in?

asulliva · ‎2016-03-21

If you hover over the red box does it give you a reason for not allowing it to continue?

Andrew

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mbeattie · ‎2016-03-21

Hi,

In the screenshot you are attempting to assign 80GB of RAM to each VM you are cloning (this seems rather excessive).

Given the number of clones you want (5 X 80 = 400GB). Do you have 400GB of RAM available in your vsphere cluster?

Are you able to create more clones if you reduce the amount of RAM you are assigning?

/Matt

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txfichter · ‎2016-03-22

Yeah, we have enough memory in the cluster to support that. But out of nowhere it is working again. This is not the first time this has happened. Pretty frustrating.

Sreedhara · ‎2016-04-14

Hi,

Right now I have the same issue. I am using VSC 4.2.1, rapid clone take sometime 0 or 1 number of clones. Some time it accepts maximum of 7 clones. This behavior is strange. Some time it will not allow cloning 1 clone also...

Any work around...

Thanks in advance