DCNM install stops with "Waiting for AFW"

[Heinz Kern]

hello,

i have the issue that my install of DCNM stops with "Waiting for AFW to be Ready". 

i have found some Bugs showing that the issue might be in combinaiton with soecial characters in the passowd...but i i don´t trust that because i have tried it several times with quite simple Passwords.

does anybody have a hint?

what is AFW? 

my install is not for production but for a lab and i try this on my Laptop. i have tried it with hyper-V, VMware Player but also in Eve-NG and i get the same error everywhere. 

thanks for your help.

br

[Daniel Weber]

From my experience you most likely have your disk space at the default 20GB.

DCNM Cisco Guide recommends a 500GB hard drive... But this recommendation is obviously for production datacenter use and reasons. 

For a lab I managed to get DCNM 11.4.1 running on VMWARE by allocating 80GB space. The full install consumed 53.2 GB.

Took a total of 40 minutes to complete install but could hang up to an hour depending on your systems resources.