VMWARE rest colleciton

[shane cummins]

Hi all after recently changing over from AWX to AAP and changing from the community.VMware collection to VMware.rest collection.

I am running into some issues when deploying I am using the module,

VMware.vmware_rest.content_library_item_info:

deploying the VM from a template in the content library,

I am able to deploy the VM from the template without any problems,

using the below playbook.

but the issue I have is the newly deployed VM keeps the name of the,

name of the template the VM was created from and does not change the name at guest level,

just changes on the label of the VM.

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- name: Deploy a VM from a library "Linux_Templates"

  hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: yes

  vars:

    hostname: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_HOST') }}"                 # vCenter Server hostname or IP address

    username: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_USER') }}"                 # vCenter Server username

    password: "{{ lookup('env', 'VMWARE_PASSWORD') }}"             # vCenter Server password

    vm_name: "{{new_name}}"                                        # Name to give to the new VM

    esxi_hostname: "esx node name"                      #ESX node name

    datastore: "datastore name"                                          # Name of the datastore to use

    cluster_ID: "cluster name"                                       # Cluster name

    folder_path: "folder path name"                                   # Name of the folder to place the new VM in

    content_library: "content library id"

    library_item: "item id"

    AD_Domain: "domain name"                                       # Domain name

    AD_Domain_alt: "alt domain name"                                   # Alternative domain name

    sudo_users: "{{sudo_user_add}}"                                # Sudo users to add to vm

  tasks:

    - name: get the list of items of the NFS library

      vmware.vmware_rest.content_library_item_info:

        vcenter_hostname: "{{hostname}}"

        vcenter_username: "{{username}}"

vcenter_password: "{{password}}"

        library_id: "{{content_library}}"

        library_item_id: "{{library_item}}"

      register: content_library_result

   

    - name: Create a new VM based on the template

      vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vmtemplate_libraryitems:

        vcenter_hostname: "{{hostname}}"

        vcenter_username: "{{username}}"

vcenter_password: "{{password}}"

        name: "{{vm_name}}"

        vcenter_validate_certs: false

        library: "{{content_library}}"

        template_library_item: "{{library_item}}"  

        placement:

          cluster: "{{cluster_ID}}"

          folder:  "{{folder_path}}"

          #resource_pool:  "{{ lookup('vmware.vmware_rest.resource_pool_moid', '/my_dc/host/my_cluster/Resources')}}"

        state: deploy

        powered_on: True

      register: my_new_vm

    - name: Pause for 1 minutes for server to boot up

      ansible.builtin.pause:

        seconds: 30

also when using the community collection i was able to just also add a task you use bash shell,

after VM was deployed in the same playbook like below

- name: "Join the VM to the Domain"
      shell: |  
         timeout 60s echo '{{vcenter_password}}' | sudo realm join --verbose exsample.COM -U 'user' --install=/ any help would be appreciated here

thanks

Shane

[Dick Visser]

As you pointed out yourself, this seems to be a question related to the usage of https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware.vmware_rest, so that would be the logical place to ask first, I would assume.

This list is more for general ansible questions rather than specific 3rd party content.

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[Rowe, Walter P. (Fed)]

https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware.vmware_rest/blob/main/docs/vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vmtemplate_libraryitems_module.rst

• Creates a library item in content library from a virtual machine. This {@term operation} creates a library item in content library whose content is a virtual machine template created from the source virtual machine, using the supplied create specification. The virtual machine template is stored in a newly created library item.

According to the documentation the vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vmtemplate_libraryitems module creates a library item in the content library. It does NOT create a new VM.

If you want to create a new VM I think you need to use the vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm module with state 'clone' and source of the library item you want to use to create the new VM.

Walter
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