Hi,
I have a workflow that deploys a set of VMs from a vRA catalog item. I do this with asynchronous workflow calls and wait until they are done. When vRA deploys the VMs it turns them on but I want to have them off for some additional configuration steps so I call another workflow to turn them off. What I'm seeing is that (sometimes?) vRA appears to be turning the VMs back on right after I've turned them off and I don't know why. This is the event list from vCenter showing the VM being turned on after deployment by vRA, then my workflow turning it off, and then vRA turning the VM right back on again a few seconds later.
Customize virtual machine guest OS ora-078 Completed EHC40DEV\app_vra_vcenter VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:47:55 AM <-- vRA finishing config
Power On virtual machine ora-078 Completed VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:48:10 AM <-- vRA turning on
Power Off virtual machine ora-078 Completed EHC40DEV\ehc_vro_admin VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:49:23 AM <-- my workflow in vRO turning off
Power On virtual machine ora-078 Completed VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:49:26 AM <-- vRA turning it back on for some reason
Reconfigure virtual machine ora-078 Completed EHC40DEV\ehc_vro_admin VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:49:30 AM <-- my workflow in vRO doing additional config
Another VM deployed in the same loop gets turned off and stays off. Here is the vCenter log of ora-077 which is deployed in parallel to 78.
Customize virtual machine guest OS ora-077 Completed EHC40DEV\app_vra_vcenter VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:47:55 AM
Power On virtual machine ora-077 Completed VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:48:10 AM
Power Off virtual machine ora-077 Completed EHC40DEV\ehc_vro_admin VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:49:26 AM
Reconfigure virtual machine ora-077 Completed EHC40DEV\ehc_vro_admin VC40Dev.ehc40dev.local 6/6/2016 7:52:43 AM
I don't understand why the first machine gets turned on again. Any insight would be appreciated.
Tom