Hi
I am setting up a new VMware virtual machine from a template using a
Ansible playbook.
I want to be able to change the datastore and the network (vm_disk and
vm_nic) of the VM during the setup of the VM. But when I add this
information into the playbook (see below), nothing happens.
The new VM is created, but the datastore and network have not been adjust
to what I requested in the playbook. They have remained the same as what
the template image is.
Am I doing something incorrect in the playbook? Or is this not possible
with Ansible?
Playbook (highlighted in bold is what is not being adjusted)
---
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
user: root
sudo: false
gather_facts: false
serial: 1
vars:
vcenter_hostname: uk.company.local
esxhost: 172.25.25.25
name: TEST-SERVER01
vmtemplate: winserver2012
* disktype: thin*
* datastore: uk-datastore01*
* nic_type: e1000e*
* network: Web Servers*
* network_type: standard*
vmcluster: UK-CLUSTER
username: username
password: password
folder: Utilities
notes: Created by Ansible
tasks:
- name: Create VM from template
vsphere_guest:
vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ username }}"
password: "{{ password }}"
guest: "{{ name }}"
vm_extra_config:
notes: "{{ notes }}"
folder: "{{ folder }}"
from_template: yes
template_src: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
cluster: "{{ vmcluster }}"
* vm_disk:*
* disk1:*
* type: "{{ disktype }}"*
* datastore: "{{ datastore }}"*
* vm_nic:*
* nic1:*
* type: "{{ nic_type }}"*
* network: "{{ network }}"*
* network_type: "{{ network_type }}"*
resource_pool: "/Resources"
esxi:
datacenter: UK
hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
If I look at the example on the Ansible website, it doesn't look like it
gives the option to allow this unless you setup a VM from an ISO file.
(http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vsphere_guest_module.html)
I ant to have the same functionality if I use a template.
Cheers
Mark
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