VM provisioning on Red Hat Satellite server fails with an error, Failed to attach ISO image to CDROM.

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Issue

  • Provisioning the virtual machines in the VMware platform via Red Hat Satellite v6.13 using the Bootdisk Method (BIOS and UEFI) failed to create the host with the below error:

    Failed to attach ISO image to CDROM drive of instance client.example.com: InvalidPowerState: The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state (Powered on).' error (RbVmomi::Fault)

  • Provisioning the virtual machines in the VMware platform via Red Hat Satellite v6.13 failed with the below error:

    Failed to detach ISO image from CDROM drive of instance client.example.com: InvalidPowerState.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13
  • VMware vCenter 8

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