Provisioning a RHEL 8 host with Satellite fails on VMware vSphere 6.5

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.5 or later
  • VMware vSphere 6.5

Issue

  • When attempting to use Red Hat Satellite 6.5 or later to provision Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on a new VMware virtual machine from vSphere Version 6.5, the provision attempt fails and displays the following error: 
        Failed to create a compute vSphere resource (VMware) 
        instance *newinstance.example.com:* InvalidArgument: A specified parameter 
        was not correct: configSpec.guestId

Resolution

The resolution for this issue is to upgrade the affected vSphere server to Content from kb.vmware.com is not included.ESXi 6.5 Update 3 or higher that supports RHEL 8 as a guest operating system.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Provisioning Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Provisioning related Issues

Root Cause

RHEL 8 deployment in vSphere version 6.5 has known issues by VMWare that have been fixed in newer releases.

Diagnostic Steps

The versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that are supported for a specific vSphere release can be determined by manually creating a new VMware virutal machine from the vSphere client and noting the versions of RHEL displayed as options for the guest OS.

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