Bosh Director Not assigned an IP address in vSphere

[chris....@opencredo.com]

Hi 

I have bosh micro deploying a stem cell to vSphere server however the vm once provisioned doesn't seem to have an ip address assigned to it in vSphere client. I also cannot performa simple ping to the ip address that I have assigned to bosh director in my bosh yaml file. This is leading to connection timeouts whilst waiting for the agent. The vm is powered up by the bosh micro deploy process,

Here is a snippet from the deployment log...

I, [2012-11-12T02:05:39.819121 #8151] [create_vm(bm-ac986c50-ec83-424b-8752-3ede19c76f31, ...)]  INFO -- : Cloning vm: <[Vim.VirtualMachine] vm-1253> to vm-689766f4-834d-44b5-9ab6-36e961390c72

I, [2012-11-12T02:06:01.560344 #8151] [create_vm(bm-ac986c50-ec83-424b-8752-3ede19c76f31, ...)]  INFO -- : Setting VM env: {"vm"=>{"name"=>"vm-689766f4-834d-44b5-9ab6-36e961390c72", "id"=>"vm-1255"},

 "agent_id"=>"bm-ac986c50-ec83-424b-8752-3ede19c76f31",

 "networks"=>

  {"bosh"=>

    {"cloud_properties"=>{"name"=>"VM Network"},

     "netmask"=>"255.255.255.0",

     "gateway"=>"172.16.19.2",

     "ip"=>"172.16.4.999",

     "dns"=>[],

     "type"=>nil,

     "default"=>["dns", "gateway"],

     "mac"=>"00:50:56:93:99:fb"}},

 "disks"=>{"system"=>0, "ephemeral"=>1, "persistent"=>{}},

 "ntp"=>["bosh.ntp.comain.com"],

 "blobstore"=>

  {"plugin"=>"local",

   "properties"=>{"blobstore_path"=>"/var/vcap/micro_bosh/data/cache"}},

 "mbus"=>"http://vcap:b00t...@0.0.0.0:6868",

 "env"=>{"bosh"=>{"password"=>"mypassword"}}}

and here is my yaml...

name: micro_bosh

network:

  ip: 172.16.4.999

  netmask: 255.255.255.0

  gateway: 172.16.19.2

  cloud_properties:

    name: VM Network

loglevel: debug

env:

  bosh:

    password: mypassword

resources:

  persistent_disk: 16384

cloud:

  plugin: vsphere

  properties:

    agent:

      ntp:

       - bosh.ntp.opencred.com 

    vcenters:

      - host: 172.16.4.121

        user: root

        password: vmware

        datacenters:

          - name: bosh-datacenter

            vm_folder: BOSH_VMs

            template_folder: BOSH_Templates

            disk_path: BOSH_Deployer

            datastore_pattern: datastore1

            persistent_datastore_pattern: datastore1

            allow_mixed_datastores: true

            clusters:

              - bosh-cluster:

                 resource_pool: bosh-resource-pool

It may also be worth pointing out that I cannot log into the director vm with the credentials logged in the snippet  "env"=>{"bosh"=>{"password"=>"mypassword"}}}. Are these the correct credentials to use?

Thanks

Chris 

[chris....@opencredo.com]

The ip address was due to the fact I was using an out of range ip address for the bosh director. Although any help on the login credentials issue is welcome. 

[Martin Englund]

Chris,

the passform you use, did you generate it with "mkpasswd -m sha-512"?

cheers,
/Martin
--
Martin Englund, Staff Engineer, Cloud Foundry, VMware Inc.
"The question is not if you are paranoid, it is if you are paranoid enough."

[chris....@opencredo.com]

No I've not generated a passform, For now I just use a raw string as defined in the micro yaml file. Have I missed an obvious step here?

[chris....@opencredo.com]

Thanks for the pointer, I've generated the password with mkpasswd and now I can access the director vm. Out of interest is there a default password if I don't specify env->bosh->password or is this property mandatory?

[Aneesh Kumar E P]

The default password is c1oudc0w