using vsphere-guest on esxi 6.0 (free version)

[Albert Uy]

Hi All,

      Any suggestions on what to set the datacenter: parameter to?

      i have an ESXi 6.0 whitebox at home, and am running Ansible 2.2.0 on an Ubuntu 16.04 vm. i've tried setting the datacenter: parameter to the hostname/ip of the whitebox, but i still end up getting this(i've added an entry in /etc/hosts for vms01.auy.com, and have verified that i can resolve it):

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 ./ansible-playbook esx.yml

PLAY [test] ********************************************************************

TASK [vsphere_guest] ***********************************************************

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Cannot find datacenter named: vms01.auy.com"}

NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************

        to retry, use: --limit @/home/auy/test/esx.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

127.0.0.1                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1

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      i am running the ff playbook(i just added an entry in  /etc/hosts file for vms01.acme.com ):

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---

- name: test

  hosts: 127.0.0.1

  connection: local

  #user: root

  #sudo: false

  gather_facts: false

  serial: 1

  tasks:

  - vsphere_guest:

       vcenter_hostname: vms01.acme.com

       validate_certs: no

       username: root

       password: passwordispassword

       #power_on_after_clone: no

       guest: test-vm

       vm_hardware:

          memory_mb: 1024

          num_cpus: 1

          osid: centos64Guest

          scsi: paravirtual

       vm_disk:

          disk1:

            size_gb: 10

            type: thin

            datastore: datastore1

            folder: /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/test-vm

       vm_nic:

          nic1:

            type: vmxnet3

            network: VM network

            network_type: standard

       esxi:

          datacenter: vms01.acme.com

          hostname: vms01.acme.com

...

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tia

[Albert Uy]

Hi All,

   Sorry i mixed up the results from two different tests...i ran another test and made sure the datacenter parameter matched the entry i made in /etc/hosts(vms01.acme.com), but i still got the same result.