Comments on: UDA 2.0 with a twist

By: Virtual Lifestyle running on ESX 4! | Virtual Lifestyle

Virtual Lifestyle running on ESX 4! | Virtual Lifestyle — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:03:17 +0000

[...] sure that the VM’s that were on a local VMFS RAID-set weren’t destroyed by using the UDA to install the box.Instead of running VMware ESXi 3.5u3, this machine is now running VMware ESX 4 (build 164009). This [...]

By: Joep Piscaer

Joep Piscaer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:02:56 +0000

Try the newest version of the UDA.

By: Jeepers

Jeepers — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:18:27 +0000

Having the same issue as “can’t get this to work”. tried other OS’s and it seems to complete the active script, but I don’t see anything actually copied…

By: Cant Get This To Work

Cant Get This To Work — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:01:46 +0000

Hi
I have followed the instructions here and am having no luck.

I have latest version of UDA 2 buld 5. I am trying to install esx 3.5 update 5 (cant use 4 due to only having a 32 bit server).

Everything works fine util I try adding the os when I get an error about vmlinuz not being copied.

Could anyone please point me in the right direction for hep?

THanks

By: Ultimate Deployment Appliance (UDA) 2.0 | Arnim van Lieshout

Ultimate Deployment Appliance (UDA) 2.0 | Arnim van Lieshout — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:15:53 +0000

[...] Joep Piscaer posted an interesting article on how to use the UDA to do a manual installation using the GUI without supplying a DVD. Read all about this hack here. [...]

By: Lilys

Lilys — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:53:25 +0000

Sorry guys, I just realised that I posted the wrong solution…. The editing I mentioned above is basically ignore checking on the last header. This will fix the problem, but not properly. The correct solution is to change the line from :
if (/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/.test(headerarray[j]))

to:
headertext = headerarray[j].replace(/[\r\n]+/g,”");
if (/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/.test(headertext))

This will remove unwanted carriage returns (line breaks) characters. The if statement returns true if the header string begins with a letter and is followed by letters, digits, or underscores (no spaces/linebreaks allowed). So if there’s a header containing a carriage returns, it will fail the condition.

If we use the example subtemplate.cfg (http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/downloads/subtemplate.cfg) mentioned in this blog, the last header “HAHEARTBEAT” contains line breaks character. As a result, the if statement will return false as the last header does not match with the regular expression and you will see a pop up window with error message “Invalid fieldname found: “HAHEARTBEAT
”

Hope this makes sense…

Happy UDA-ing!

By: Joep Piscaer

Joep Piscaer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:22:03 +0000

Lilys, what does editting validatesubtemplates.js do, exactly?

By: Lilys

Lilys — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:28:43 +0000

Hi,

I fixed my problem by putty into the uda and editing the validatesubtemplates.js file under /var/public/www/js folder, line 24. Original line:
if (/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/.test(headerarray[j]))

I changed it to :
if (/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/.test(headerarray[j-1]))

Hope this helps.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:12:11 +0000

I found that if you dont use IE the sub-template option works just fine. Also you can edit the variables from under the covers it a flat file.

By: Zdb

Zdb — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:28:11 +0000

Same as previous post – getting errors when trying to use the “subtemplate manual edit” – I just get an error. “Message from webpage – Invalid fieldname found”

Anyone previously getting this managed a workaround? Or is it start from scratch and recreate the problem?

By: Lilys

Lilys — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:30:16 +0000

Hi,

I’m having the same problem as David. When doing manual edit on the subtemplate, it keeps throwing an error : invalid fieldname found : “XXXX”

Any ideas?

By: j.piscaer

j.piscaer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:53:08 +0000

pcrisp, I advise you to go the the VMTN community thread to get any further help on this subject.

By: pcrisp

pcrisp — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:19:45 +0000

!! Update !!
Ok seem to have got to the source of the problem, but cannot get any further.

It appears that the vswif0 interface is picking up the IP that I’m dishing out and not the NICS. When using a kickstart script eventually it will come up with No COS NICS Added by user.

The hardware in question is a HP DL585 with 4 NICS in and I’ve tried IPAPPEND 2 and also ksdevice and cannot get past this… please help !!!

By: pcrisp

pcrisp — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:45:40 +0000

Great article and I’ve found very useful, although am having an issue during the installation of ESX on the destination server… Its prompting to Insert ESX Media just after you click next on the summary settings page???

Any clues?

By: j.piscaer

j.piscaer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:49:55 +0000

Anttony, I’ve tried getting used to working with the EDA, but I’ve never felt strongly about it. Both appliances however, do the same, and have a reasonably identical feature set and purpose. I’ve even heard rumors that the EDA and UDA will soon be merged into a single appliance!

By: anttony adebakin

anttony adebakin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:35:56 +0000

uda 2 is cool , but have you tried eda0.89 esx deploynent appliance (esx3.5/4) also cool, could you compare them please? thanks

By: david

david — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:57:44 +0000

I have a problem with the use of the subtemplate.

Apparantly when you enter after entering all variables (to go to the next line) you will always get following error : Invalid fieldname found: “VARIABLE ”

Is there a special command to go to the next line?

By: RTFM Education » Blog Archive » Install ESX without DVDs

RTFM Education » Blog Archive » Install ESX without DVDs — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:58:32 +0000

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