Hi all,
So this is my second time trying to install and use the guest agent, aka gugent. I wanted to use it primarily so that additional storage volumes would automatically get formatted and assigned a drive letter during provisioning. However, I'm testing the blueprint with the guest agent and it appears something is not working right. Here is what I did:
I converted my template to a VM. I followed the vCAC 6.1 instructions for installing the Guest Agent on a Windows machine. The vcacguestagentservice installed successfully, and I saw that the service was set to Automatic but not started. I ran the command to point it to the IaaS server, according to the directions. (Shortly before I converted the VM back to a template, I did notice a message in the System log mentioning that "the service was configured for Interactive but Interactive was not allowed", or something to that effect.) I converted the VM back to a template, and then pointed my existing blueprint to this modified template. I tried requesting a new VM from this blueprint, with an additional storage volume. I noticed that the additional volume still did not automatically get initialized, formatted and assigned a drive letter. In addition, I'm under the impression that the vCACGuestagentservice is supposed to self remove/uninstall, and it didn't do that either -- the vCACGuestAgentService is still present and running on the newly provisioned VM. What did I do wrong here? Thanks!
