Cannot Install scaleiO

I have this exact same issue.

I can ping the SVMs and SSH to them, but cannot get any credentials to successfully authenticate. I am using the ScaleIO vSphere plugin to do the installation of the SVMs (1.32).

Are you able to create an SVM from ScaleIO template and login with username root/admin?

Sorry, I should have updated the thread. I managed to get everything deployed by simplifying the root password that was in use. The one I was originally using didn't contain any apparently illegal characters, but simplifying it's complexity resolved the issue.

Are you running the script from the vCenter server or from a different server that is connected to vCenter Server? In case you are running from the vCenter server, run the script from a different server that is connected to the vCenter server.

Did you use "$"?

I no longer have the original password as it was randomly generated, but it's entirely possible that it had a $ in it.

I am having same issue - my password has a $ in it - is this the root cause

The article below suggests certain combinations of characters and numbers could cause this

article outlining below:

https://support.emc.com/kb/194998

in the article states

Using the implementation wizard to install SIO, during step 3 "create the new system", a password is requested for the admin user. It states on the screen, and in the user guide, that the following is required.

Password must meet the following criteria:

• Between 6 and 31 characters
• Include at least 3 of the following groups: [a-z], [A-Z],
  [0-9], special chars (!@#$....)
• No white spaces

This is followed but the password is not accepted when some combinations are used.

There's no real error message, but in the screenshot you can see that the password box is highlighted in red when entering an invalid combination.

The issue was recreated in the lab, using a few various password combinations as follows

Test!1 - accepted

Test#1 - accepted

Test@1 - accepted

Test?1 - Not accepted

Test$1 - Not accepted

possible workaround would be in meantime:

Please use a different password when deploying the system and change it after the deployment is done using "scli --set_password" command.

HI

am also facing the same issue did u get any resolution for this

Do not use the $ char in the password you configure for the SVMs.
Try using Upper case letters + lower case letters + numbers

Thanks for the information

I can able to login now but failed with the below error

ScaleIO-VMDK-622861989.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore

FAILED (Error code: VMWARE_CANNOT_ADD_DEVICES_TO_VM)

Hi,

What is your ESXi version and how big are the disks you are trying to use with ScaleIO?

Thank you,

Pawel

HI

I have ESXi 5.5 and disk for scalrio is 1 TB

Thank You

Suriya

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Hi,

This is an ESXi error, not ScaleIO. Basically there is a problem with the disk space on the datastore you use for the SVM - please see above VMware KB article for more information.