SCVMM 2016 VM creation stalls on step 1.6 - Shut down virtual machine

George Goodwin 1 Reputation point
2021-12-17T18:27:14.257+00:00

All,

I am having issues deploying 2019 servers on SCVMM. The template we created is 2019 and fully patched as of today. When we create a virtual machine from template the VM is created (system is HA and pointed at a cluster). I have tried both adding to domain and keeping it in a workgroup but in every instance the VM deploys and gets to step 1.6.6 and hangs. It may time out after 6 hours but not waiting that long to find out. If I cancel the job and repair the VM its perfectly functional. I have validated that all the available hosts have the windows update service is disabled as well as the VM (not that I think that part matters). There is seemingly no error logs I can find.

I have a few 2019 templates from various times of year and they all end up doing the same thing.

Any thoughts on what I may try next?

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  1. Limitless Technology 39,806 Reputation points
    2021-12-20T13:35:40.847+00:00

    Hello @George Goodwin

    The most common problem for this might be with the local administrator password being set improperly. The local administrator password in the VM OS must be blank / empty / clear.

    If you join the VM to the domain before making a template from it, then the domain security policy gets imposed on the OS in the VM, then a blank local admin password cannot be used or the local admin password specified at deployment does not meet complexity.

    Here is an thread as well to help you out with this issue https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/b3552470-df2e-4700-9c94-cbd952bb44c1/virtual-machine-creation-stuck-at-16-customize-virtual-machine-windows-could-not-apply-unattend?forum=virtualmachinemanager

    Hope this resolves your Query!!

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  2. George Goodwin 1 Reputation point
    2021-12-21T21:31:38.91+00:00

    As it turns out, the issue seems to be with the RTM ISO that was being used. Once I used a different 2019 ISO that was known good everything worked as intended.

    Thanks for the advice @Limitless Technology but we were already doing just that, but it's always good to get some reinforcement.


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