VCAC 6.0.1.1
After deploying a Windows 2012 R2 server from a basic blueprint request, it immediately fails with a "machine name already exists" error. This is a very basic out-of-the-box request workflow with no customization other than a hostname property specified to override the prefix.
The vCAC log viewer indicates:
Source: Repository
Instance Name: Repository
Message: Error requesting machine. Inner Exception: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Base Exception: Machine name [myactualservername] already exists.
VMware KB 2043297 indicates that this is caused by a pre-deployment check of AD, DNS, or WINS. To resolve, verify that the machine name does not exist in AD, DNS, or WINS.
My question is, are there any other logs I can check to find out what is causing this failure to trigger? Is it AD, DNS or WINS? I do not have WINS implemented in this environment, AD does not have a computer account with this server's name, and I have tried with or without DNS entries with the same result. (We tend to pre-provision DNS A and PTR records in our IPAM solution prior to deploying the VM with other requests working just fine). It seems to me that vCAC has a record of this machine name, but not any of the components mentioned in the KB article. Has anyone ran into this?
Thank you,
James