Foundation deployment fails on HPE iLO7 nodes - "Foundation HTTPS must be enabled on port 8001"

Hi,

I am trying to deploy an AHV cluster using Nutanix Foundation VM against HPE DX380 G12 servers with iLO7, but the deployment consistently fails in Phase 1 during "Preparing installer image".

The relevant error in the VM Foundation log is:

Imaging requires Foundation HTTPS to be enabled on port 8001 for nodes that require HTTPS boot media.

What I have verified so far

On the Foundation VM:

• firewalld is not running
• port 8000 is listening
• port 8001 is not listening at all
• curl -vk https://127.0.0.1:8001 returns connection refused
• curl -v https://127.0.0.1:8000 returns wrong version number, which seems to confirm that port 8000 is only serving HTTP, not HTTPS
• ss -lntp | egrep '8000|8001' only shows *:8000
• nginx -T does not show any active listen 8001 ssl configuration

The Foundation process listening on 8000 is:

Deployment behavior
 

All nodes fail with the same status:

• fatal: Preparing installer image (failed at 39%)

And Phase 2 / Phase 3 do not start because Phase 1 fails.
 

My questions

Has anyone seen this with HPE iLO7 and recent Foundation versions?

Is there any known workaround for this situation, for example:

• restarting or reinitializing the HTTPS service on port 8001
• forcing Foundation to use HTTP boot media instead of HTTPS
• using a different Foundation version/build
• any specific requirement for HPE iLO7 + Redfish remote boot that could explain why 8001 is not being exposed locally on the Foundation VM

At this point it looks like Foundation itself requires HTTPS boot media for these nodes, but the Foundation VM is not actually opening port 8001.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks.