SovLabs Plug-in 2019.6.0 Release Notes

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Failed to get latest version of the resource element {{ name }}
Version inconsistency between cache and db detected in repo for _______ cached version 0.0.__ db version 0.0.___Workaround: If the issue occurs consistently, please notify SovLabs immediately.  This will be resolved in the upcoming GA release of the SovLabs Plug-in, expected May 2019.

vRA/vRO Clustering for vRA 7.3 and vRA 7.4

vRA does not consistently persist XaaS items to inventory (independent of SovLabs) even though the vRO workflow related to item creation completes successfully.

Workaround: None.  SovLabs is pursuing this issue with VMware GSS at the highest priority.
SovLabs KB Article 6000197373

Custom Naming

Unable to rename deployments in vRA 7.x due to vRA Platform limitation.

The deployment name defaults to the blueprint name appended by a dash and an auto-generated 8-digit number (e.g. blueprintName-12345678)

Workaround: The deployment name can be influenced by adding a vRA Custom Property at the composite blueprint level (versus at the machine component in the blueprint) with:

• Name: _deploymentName
• Value: Unique value utilizing the SovLabs Template Engine

*Note: Using the same property value will result in deployments with the same name

Manage Credentials for Puppet Open Source with Foreman

Unable to update a credential that is tied to Puppet Open Source with Foreman

Workaround: Update the Foreman Master or Foreman Agent and create a new credential directly inline and submit.

F5

Issue: A nested vRA blueprint with the F5 virtual component in the child vRA blueprint that defines the value for Pool Health Monitors field fails with a: Status Code 400 ‘The value for the ‘poolHealthMonitors’ field should be among the permitted value’ for vRA 7.2.  This issue does not occur for vRA 7.3 nor for a single (non-nested) blueprint.

Workaround: Do not define (pin) the value for Pool Health Monitors (or any field that is Array/String) on the F5 Virtual component in the child blueprint for a nested blueprint.

vRA 7.4, 2018.1.4
During provisioning for vRA 7.4, vRO server.log will log errors when the SovLabs RESTipe executes a vRO workflow. The error logs are benign and can be ignored. vRO workflows are executed successfully via SovLabs RESTipes.

Issue: When defining multiple F5 virtual components and different VIPs are tied to use the same Pool Name (often when manually defining the Pool Name), the VIPs and the Pool is not removed from F5 when destroying the deployment even though the Pool is empty.

Workaround: Please try to keep a 1:1 relationship between a VIP and Pool.  A circular dependency exists when trying to remove the VIPs tied to the same Pool and proper disposal cannot take place.

Notifications

Updating a Notification Configuration’s Configuration label will create a duplicate vRO Inventory item with the previous name.  Not allowing the customer to create another Notification Configuration with the previous name.

Temporary Workaround: Please run the vRO Workflow: SovLabs > Notifications > vRA ASD > Notification > Delete Notification Configuration and choose the Notification Configuration with the previous name to delete.

vSphere Snapshot Management

If using vSphere Snapshot Management with any of the Backup as a Service modules (Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam) may result in an email notification of a Backup as a Service snapshot.

If the Backup as a Service snapshot lives beyond deletion time set in Snapshot Configuration, will get deleted.

Property Toolkit

Day2 on vRA VM “Manage Properties (SovLabs Property Toolkit) does not have a correct reflection of the fields: Hidden, Encrypted, Show in Request for a Property when the Action field is Update Existing Property.

Workaround: Please check the checkbox during an Update of a Property on a VM for any of the applicable fields: Hidden, Encrypted, Show in Request and then Submit.

Property Toolkit vRA Catalog Item: Entity Property Assignment and Reporting has an issue when creating a new vRA Blueprint Custom Property and setting it to “Overridable = false” will create the vRA Blueprint Custom Property as “Overridable = true”
Workaround: Please manually set “Overridable = false” on the vRA Blueprint

Property Toolkit dynamically setting an Encrypted property via “SVL_” vRA Property Group will error out.
Workaround: Please set the Encrypted property on an appropriate vRA Entity.  Currently, unable to set Encrypted properties dynamically on the machine.

Puppet Open Source with Foreman (starting from release 2018.2.4)

The Host Parameters field is optional.  When no Host Parameters are defined, an error stack trace for null pointer exception is in the vRO logs.

Workaround: None, the error stack trace is benign.  The provisioning succeeds and the machine is added correctly into Foreman.