Our vSphere was once upon a time (ESX3.x) installed in German and the expression for the "Network adapter 1" is then "Netzwerkadapter 1". I am not suggesting to support all locales at this point but i second Jean-Christophe that this should not be hard coded.

Cheers Jan

Here is another one for hardcoding. For some reason our vSphere has been installed with some german fragments. This is why all of the deployment features from within foreman did not work:

foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb:309
path_replace = %r{/Datacenters/#{datacenter}/vm(/|)}

in german this rather is:
path_replace = %r(/Datencenter/#{datacenter}/vm(/|))

Again, so suggestion to support locales, but hardcoding seems to be causing trouble.

Thanks for all the work!
Cheers Jan

For people experiencing the same issue, this is a (very temporary) fix that seems to work just fine with Foreman 1.6.1: https://gist.github.com/azet/d55045995d0ef49497c5

A generic solution for the issue would be appreciated - but I understand that not many deployments will have this issue.

We ran into this issue while trying to setup Foreman against our Vsphere 5.5U1 environment. From what I could tell there was no localization issues since this install was EN based.

The template we were trying to deploy from was copied over from another data-center(within vcenter).

When we copied the template over it was edited to reference the correct VDS for the new datacenter/network/hyp's it will be servicing. However with all that said, we still had this issue. When looking at the template when converted to a VM, it showed a single network adapter, but that adapter was #2 in the list.

What resolve the problem for us was to delete that network adapter, save(click ok), re-add a network adapter and select a default VDS/port-group. Now the adapter displays as "adapter #1" , instead of "adapter #2" and we are able to deploy VM's.

Cheers.

Edit: This was with Foreman 1.6.1

#9704 (which won't be merged for a while) will fix the Network Adapter name lookup, but the Datacenter name.