I ran into a problem with VMware vSphere 6.5 Auto Deploy suddenly stopped working.
When trying to change rules with New-DeployRule or Repair-DeployImageCache I got the following error:
1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041Repair-DeployImageCacheSystem.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfileat System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(Stringvalue,StringxmlKey,String&assemblyString)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandlerhandler,ISerParserserParser)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(StreamserializationStream,HeaderHandlerhandler)at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile()System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfileat System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(Stringvalue,StringxmlKey,String&assemblyString)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandlerhandler,ISerParserserParser)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(StreamserializationStream,HeaderHandlerhandler)at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile()System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfileat System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(Stringvalue,StringxmlKey,String&assemblyString)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandlerhandler,ISerParserserParser)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(StreamserializationStream,HeaderHandlerhandler)at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile()System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfileat System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(Stringvalue,StringxmlKey,String&assemblyString)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecordpr,ParseRecordobjectPr)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run()at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandlerhandler,ISerParserserParser)at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(StreamserializationStream,HeaderHandlerhandler)at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile()
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