Hi!
We have an issue with Windows (2008 R2 SP1) o/s customization on our ESXi 5.1 update 3 (build 1743533) hosts
since we have upgraded the vCenter Server from 5.1.0 to the last 5.5 update 1 version.
The sysprep works normally and customization seems to be good in the end,
but we don't get the "Customization Succeeded" anymore in the VM Events.
Here is the end of the "C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log" file:
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 INFO] GuestCustUtil invoked.
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 INFO] Params: flagComplete
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 DEBUG] Customization in progress set to 0 at 2014-Jun-09 12:43:50
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 DEBUG] Rpci: Sending request='deployPkg.update.state 5 0 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log'
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 DEBUG] Rpci: Sent request='deployPkg.update.state 5 0 C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-imc\guestcust.log', reply='Unknown command', len=15, status=0
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 ERROR] Unable to set customization status in vmx.
[2014-06-09T12:43:50 DEBUG] SysprepDecrypter has unobfuscated the password successfully
[2014-06-09T
That's the only error we have in all logs (C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\Panther\setupact.log is 100% successfull)
and it seems it's just the ending "GuestCustUtil flagComplete" that is not working.
Might it be a compatibility issue with the vCenter 5.5 GuestCustUtil command (dated 04/16/2014) with our ESXi 5.1 update 3 hosts?
Thanks in advance for any clue.