topic Betreff: Agent installation failed: Failed to install morpheus agent - during provisioning in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Agent installation failed: Failed to install morpheus agent - during provisioning VME Host

ChristophLeing — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:10:23 GMT

I Can not successfully add VME Host to Manager. During provisionening got the error "Agent installation failed: Failed to install morpheus agent"

I am doing a POC in my MVware Environment and with a 2 Node VME SimpliVity System.

I deployed 1 VME Virtual Host (HVM_Install_24.04_S5Q83-11031) in my VMware Environemt wich runs the Manager VM (Version 8.0.12). There is one extra VME Virtual Host (HVM_Install_24.04_S5Q83-11031) for testing purpose. Every time when I add a VME Host als Single Node Cluster I got the error message "Agent installation failed: Failed to install morpheus agent". Manager and VME Hosts are in the same subnet. I have deployed the Environment serveral times.

I am new to VME and hopefully someone can give me a hint, what I am doing wrong.

Betreff: Agent installation failed: Failed to install morpheus agent - during provisioning

ChristophLeing — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:06:04 GMT

I found the soultion in this threat: Failed to create HVM cluster in 8.0.10 - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Community

The current "workaround" is the following steps on the VME inside over SSH and of course "sudo -i" after the login:

Log in to the Manager VM
Verify the Release file

# ls -l /var/opt/morpheus/package-repos/apt/dists/morpheus/

※ No files existed at this point.

morpheus-ctl stop morpheus-ui
morpheus-ctl reconfigure
Verify the Release file

# ls -l /var/opt/morpheus/package-repos/apt/dists/morpheus/

★ Files were present at this point.

morpheus-ctl start morpheus-ui
Cluster creation successful

Betreff: Agent installation failed: Failed to install morpheus agent - during provisioning

PeterTzvetanov — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:50:29 GMT

Hi ChristophLeing,

that is true. So far for the moment I have seen mostly this issue on virtualized systems as there the startup and response time is a lot more slower compared to the baremetal installs. But the workaround works always.

With regards