It seems to be a side-effect or a related bug to :- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799488 Coping from above bug. It seems all the validation from vsphere is removed for the fix.I intentionally left all the paramater values(default dummy values) unchanged in both vsphere and rhevm configure files. [root@dhcp201-113 ~]# tail -8 /etc/aeolus-configure/nodes/vsphere_configure default: # Uncomment and provide values to match your vSphere environment. # Values below are examples. deltacloud_provider: vsphere.server.com username: username password: password datastore: datastore network_name: network_name [root@dhcp201-113 ~]# tail -8 /etc/aeolus-configure/nodes/rhevm_configure nfs_server: nfs.server.com nfs_export: /export/export_domain nfs_mount_point: /mnt/rhevm-nfs deltacloud_username: username@fqdn deltacloud_password: password deltacloud_api: https://rhevm.server.com:8443/api deltacloud_data_center: data center id push_timeout: 1800 And here is the output:- [root@dhcp201-113 ~]# aeolus-configure -p vsphere Launching aeolus configuration recipe... notice: /File[/etc/ldap_fluff.yml]/content: content changed '{md5}b27213de9f26cf3a5e689c1ab7d2c2b6' to '{md5}109fb977032121710c47df851d8f0e72' notice: /File[/etc/ldap_fluff.yml]/group: group changed 'root' to 'aeolus' notice: /File[/etc/ldap_fluff.yml]/mode: mode changed '644' to '640' notice: /File[/usr/share/aeolus-conductor/config/initializers/secret_token.rb]/ensure: defined content as '{md5}dd58e9d517a374c07b27f76f69880bce' notice: /File[/usr/share/aeolus-conductor/config/settings.yml]/content: content changed '{md5}e554310b717ab9218f4d136cdc7994f4' to '{md5}e9e9f46bfcd6c8646c9da4652a6c4625' notice: /Stage[main]/Aeolus::Image-factory/Augeas[imagefactory.conf]/returns: executed successfully notice: /Stage[main]/Postgres::Server/Service[postgresql]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running' notice: /Stage[main]/Aeolus ............. notice: /Stage[main]/Aeolus::Profiles::Common/Aeolus::Conductor::Destroy_temp_admins[after]/Exec[destroy_temp_admin-after]/returns: executed successfully notice: Finished catalog run in 61.27 seconds [root@dhcp201-113 ~]# aeolus-configure -p rhevm Launching aeolus configuration recipe... Couldn't resolve host name at /usr/share/aeolus-configure/modules/aeolus/manifests/rhevm/validate.pp:2 on node dhcp201-113.englab.pnq.redhat.com So rhevm-configure behaved correctly with invalid parameter values where fo vsphere-configure it is unable to provide any information regarding invalid parametrs instead it succeed with configuring.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 801508 ***