Install of vCloud Director 1.5 fails to set up ESXi 4.1U1 hosts

According to the install documentation, VMware vSphere 4 ESX and ESXi 4.1 update 1 are supported.

Install or upgrade to vCloud Director 1.5 will fail with the following error when trying to add the provider vDC:

Could not retrieve state for sequence: seq_os

This is easily fixed by editing the database table os_id and inserting the relevant information.

For ESX:

• os_type = vmnix-x86
• name = VMware ESX
• version = 4.1.0
• update_level = 1
• is_supported = 1

And for ESXi:

• os_type = vmnix-x86
• name = VMware ESXi
• version = 4.1.0
• update_level = 1
• is_supported = 1

then restart the setup of your provider vDC and you should be all set.