[Bug]: Start-HoloDeckInstance fails with "Cannot find associated appliances" due to missing Appliance property in HoloDeckInstance class

[hirohiro43]

Holorouter Version

9.0.2

VCF Version

VCF 9.0.2.0

Target Type

vCenter Cluster

Describe the bug

Start-HoloDeckInstance always fails with the following error even when the instance JSON file contains a valid Appliance array:

StartHolodeckInstance[xxxxxx]: [INFO] Cannot find associated appliances on Instance:

Root cause: The HoloDeckInstance class defined in Model.psm1 does not declare an Appliance property, and the load() static method does not hydrate it from the JSON file. As a result, $instance.appliance is always $null regardless of the contents of the instance JSON.

Reproduction steps

1.Deploy a Holodeck instance via New-HoloDeckInstance

2.Run Stop-HoloDeckInstance -InstanceID "InstanceID" -Force

3.Run Start-HoloDeckInstance -InstanceID "InstanceID" -Force

4.Observe the error: Cannot find associated appliances on Instance:

Expected behavior

Start-HoloDeckInstance should read the Appliance array from the instance JSON and power on all associated VMs.

Workaround
Add the missing Appliance property to the HoloDeckInstance class and hydrate it in the load() method in /root/.local/share/powershell/Modules/HoloDeck/Modules/Model.psm1:

# Class definition - add after $FilePath
[object[]]$Appliance

# load() method - add after $instance.SiteB
$instance.Appliance = $jsonData.Appliance

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