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I see where #6341 went wrong. PR #189 has been uploaded to fix the regression.

vmware ESXi-5.5U2

foreman-1.6.0.51-1.el7sat.noarch
foreman-proxy-1.6.0.33-1.el7sat.noarch

/usr/share/foreman-proxy/modules/tftp/tftp_api.rb line 13 is

log_halt 403, "Invalid MAC address: #{mac}"                  unless valid_mac?(mac) or mac.nil?

Foreman production.log
Processing by HostsController#create as /*
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"yMutR8HVMzHS9ceYfQidijzZnn+DfnSOuxC6dqNxPf4=", "host"=>{"name"=>"aa", "organization_id"=>"3", "location_id"=>"4", "hostgroup_id"=>"1", "compute_resource_id"=>"3", "compute_profile_id"=>"1", "environment_id"=>"1", "content_source_id"=>"1", "puppet_ca_proxy_id"=>"1", "puppet_proxy_id"=>"1", "puppetclass_ids"=>[""], "managed"=>"true", "progress_report_id"=>"[FILTERED]", "type"=>"Host::Managed", "compute_attributes"=>{"cpus"=>"1", "corespersocket"=>"1", "memory_mb"=>"768", "cluster"=>"pt-gl-1.test1.net", "path"=>"/ha-folder-root/ha-datacenter/vm", "guest_id"=>"rhel6_64Guest", "interfaces_attributes"=>{"new_interfaces"=>{"type"=>"VirtualE1000", "network"=>"HaNetwork-VM Network", "_delete"=>""}, "0"=>{"type"=>"VirtualVmxnet3", "network"=>"HaNetwork-VM Network 192", "_delete"=>""}}, "volumes_attributes"=>{"new_volumes"=>{"datastore"=>"datastore1", "name"=>"Hard disk", "size_gb"=>"10", "thin"=>"true", "_delete"=>""}, "0"=>{"datastore"=>"datastore1", "name"=>"Hard disk", "size_gb"=>"10", "thin"=>"true", "_delete"=>""}}, "scsi_controller_type"=>"VirtualLsiLogicController", "start"=>"1"}, "domain_id"=>"1", "realm_id"=>"", "mac"=>"", "subnet_id"=>"2", "ip"=>"", "interfaces_attributes"=>{"new_interfaces"=>{"_destroy"=>"false", "type"=>"Nic::Managed", "mac"=>"", "name"=>"", "domain_id"=>"", "ip"=>"", "provider"=>"IPMI"}}, "architecture_id"=>"1", "operatingsystem_id"=>"2", "provision_method"=>"build", "build"=>"1", "medium_id"=>"7", "ptable_id"=>"7", "disk"=>"", "root_pass"=>"[FILTERED]", "is_owned_by"=>"3-Users", "enabled"=>"1", "model_id"=>"", "comment"=>"", "overwrite"=>"false"}, "kt_environment_id"=>"", "capabilities"=>"build image", "provider"=>"Vmware"}
Adding Compute instance for aa.test1.net
Successfully decrypted field for Foreman::Model::Vmware pt-gl-1
Successfully decrypted field for Foreman::Model::Vmware pt-gl-1
Removing Compute instance for aa.test1.net
mac value is blank!
Rolling back due to a problem: [Query instance details for aa.test1.net 4 failed [#<Host::Managed id: nil, name: "aa.test1.net", ip: nil, last_compile: nil, last_freshcheck: nil, last_report: nil, updated_at: nil, source_file_id: nil, created_at: nil, mac: nil, root_pass: "$1$IFhILZvs$ve3ErLPyfTgrWYesk2Brn.", serial: nil, puppet_status: 0, domain_id: 1, architecture_id: 1, operatingsystem_id: 2, environment_id: 1, subnet_id: 2, ptable_id: 7, medium_id: 7, build: true, comment: "", disk: "", installed_at: nil, model_id: nil, hostgroup_id: 1, owner_id: 3, owner_type: "User", enabled: true, puppet_ca_proxy_id: 1, managed: true, use_image: nil, image_file: nil, uuid: "52fd8ce9-a8dd-130d-7d96-928da2fe8514", compute_resource_id: 3, puppet_proxy_id: 1, certname: nil, image_id: nil, organization_id: 3, location_id: 4, type: "Host::Managed", otp: nil, realm_id: nil, compute_profile_id: 1, provision_method: "build", content_source_id: 1>, :setComputeDetails]]
Removing Compute instance for aa.test1.net
Failed to save: mac value is blank!
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Completed 200 OK in 3085ms (Views: 718.3ms | ActiveRecord: 60.1ms)
Processing by TasksController#show as */
Parameters: {"id"=>"39dd7d17-162f-40d2-91e4-bc26049cdf9d"}
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Completed 200 OK in 11ms (Views: 3.8ms | ActiveRecord: 0.8ms)
Connecting to database specified by database.yml

Please ignore this bug report. After I created a datacenter and gave foreman the vcenter url, this problem went away.