Thank you very much Jean for all the help so far... Regards On Tuesday, 6 April 2021, 00:06:26 EEST, Dick Visser <dick.vis...@geant.org> wrote: Well this still is a resolution error, so that needs to be fixed.Either way it's not an ansible problem.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 at 21:44, bec12...@gmail.com <bec12...@gmail.com> wrote: Sure i will thanks. It is true, i am using the vmware_guest module where i ommited the validate certificate.But now the problem has been with the dns. when I test the management network, the hostname resolves to the dns, yet i ahve errors. fatal: [localhost -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API at vsecurity.localdomain:443 : [Errno -2] Name or service not known"} Below is my commands....the control node is installed on the esxi I am sorry to have been asking many questions. ---- name: create vm hosts: localhost gather_facts: no connection: local vars: esxi_host: 'vsecurity.localdomain' VMWARE_HOST: 'vsecurity.localdomain' VMWARE_USER: 'root' VMWARE_PASSWORD: 'password' tasks: - vmware_guest: hostname: "{{ VMWARE_HOST }}" username: "{{ VMWARE_USER }}" validate_certs: no password: "{{ VMWARE_PASSWORD }}" folder: /Datastore_2/ans_vm/ name: my_vm_01 state: poweredon guest_id: ubuntu64Guest # This is hostname of particular ESXi server on which user wants VM to be deployed esxi_hostname: "{{ esxi_host }}" disk: - size_gb: 16 type: thin datastore: Datastore_2 hardware: memory_mb: 1024 num_cpus: 1 scsi: paravirtual networks: - name: VM Network mac: 00:0c:29:c2:da:5e ip: 192.168.154.144 netmask: 255.255.255.0 device_type: nvmxnet3 wait_for_ip_address: true delegate_to: localhost register: deploy_vm Thank you On Monday, 5 April 2021, 21:13:07 EEST, Jean-Yves LENHOF <jean-y...@lenhof.eu.org> wrote: Hi, Please explain which module you are using when asking questions ! So have a guess that you are using this one https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/vmware_guest_module.html#vmware-guest-module So two options : - ask to update the certificate with a trusted and not expired one - use "validate_certs" option Regards, JYL Le 05/04/2021 à 19:53, bec12...@gmail.com a écrit : Okay...thank you. I think now i am having a different error of certifiate. fatal: [localhost -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API at vsecurity.com on TCP/443: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1123)"} I tried to secure copy the rui.crt from vmware esxi via ssh to the ansible control node but it fails all the time. On Monday, 5 April 2021, 20:16:27 EEST, Dick Visser <dick.vis...@geant.org> wrote: You're connecting to a host called 'vsecurity', but that doesn't resolve to something. At least not on the host you're trying to run the playbook from. 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