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<\/a><\/p>\nWe see plainly from the original error that PVS is searching for dvportgroup-22, but the key for that port group is actually dvportgroup-562.<\/p>\n
How can this happen?<\/h4>\n
It turns out that this scenario is actually common and affects more than just PVS and XenDesktop. There are reports that it has affected versions of VMware SRM at some point in the past. The issue arises when you migrate a Distributed vSwitch from one vCenter to another \u2013 something that in fact happened in this case. When that migration was done, you may typically choose to “Preserve original distributed switch and port group identifiers” in order to ease migration of VM NIC\u2019s when migrating from one vCenter to another seamlessly. In these instances, the key can differ from the ID.<\/p>\n
It would seem as though PVS parses the ID, then searches for the unique ID with that key, so when it executes the \u201creconfigure VM\u201d step to assign the network, the job fails.<\/p>\n
What are the workarounds?<\/h4>\n
Create new port groups and migrate all VM\u2019s to the new port group, just keep in mind there may be availability concerns when doing this. Consult the vSphere documentation for more details.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, if you don\u2019t need to use BDM, you can use the Streamed Setup Wizard to provision a machine. Keep in mind your template will need a write cache drive attached and you will be unable to migrate to the BDM boot partition in a supported manner at a later time.<\/p>\n
Conclusion<\/h4>\n
Even when everything is humming along nicely, there are things that may be out of your control (such as a vCenter upgrade) that could affect you. Keep an open mind and realize that technology has come to rely on APIs where you may not expect them to. The connection to vCenter is an important one, so keep it in your mind when planning upgrades as it could affect the availability of your Citrix stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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