Building a VM using Ansible Tower

[Sindhu Rao]

I'm building a VM on Vcenter with a playbook that runs fine and creates a VM when executed from the Ansible server but fails to create a VM when the same playbook is executed from ANsible Tower.

I do not see any syntax errors and I see the same job output on both the Ansible server and on Ansible Tower. I'm not sure if there is a difference in vmware_guest module for Tower or with versions. 

My playbook is

---

    - name: Create a VM

      vmware_guest:

        hostname: "{{ hostname_esxi }}"

        username: ansible.pfshq.com

        password: #####

        validate_certs: False

        datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"

        resource_pool: "{{ resource_pool_esxi }}"

        cluster: "{{ cluster_esxi }}"

        guest_id: "{{ guest_id }}"

        folder: "/{{ datacenter }}/vm"

        state: poweredon

        annotation: "{{ annotation }}"

# hostname gets passed in command line as extra arguments -e hostname=xxxxxxx

        name: "{{ hostname }}"

        hardware:

          memory_mb: "{{ memory_esxi }}"

          num_cpus: "{{ cpu_esxi }}"

          scsi: "{{ scsi_esxi }}"

        wait_for_ip_address: yes

        disk:

        - size_gb: "{{ disk_size_1 }}"

          type: "{{ disk_type }}"

  

          datastore: "{{ datastore_cluster_1 }}"

        - size_gb: "{{ disk_size_2 }}"

          type: "{{ disk_type }}"

          datastore: "{{ datastore_cluster_2 }}"

        networks:

        - name: "{{ network_name }}"

          domain: "{{ domain }}"

          device_type: "{{ device_type }}"

          dns_servers:

          - "{{ dns1 }}"

          - "{{ dns2 }}"

      delegate_to: localhost

      register: VM

[Dan Linder]

> I'm not sure if there is a difference in vmware_guest module for Tower or with versions. 

If the output is the same between Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower, then that would be my first though.  Check the versions Tower and your test system are using and make sure Tower is the same version.