Ansible Create vSphere Virtual Machine

[David Foley]

Ansible playbook fails to deploy Virtual Machine: Can't Find Folder 

How can I deploy a Virtual machine without any Folders within the Cluster ? 

---

    - name: Running Create Virtual Machine Playbook

      hosts: localhost

      gather_facts: false

      connection: local

      tasks:

        - name: Virtual Machine customization

          vmware_guest:

            validate_certs: no

            folder:  "{{ }}"

            hostname: "{{ }}"

            username:  "{{ }}"

            password:  "{{ }}"

            cluster :  "{{ }}"

            customization_spec:  "{{ }}"

            name:  "{{ }}"

            template: "{{ }}"

            state: poweredon

            disk:

              - datastore:  "{{ }}"

            networks:

            - name:  "{{ }}"

              device_type: e1000e

            customization:

              autologon: yes

            hardware:

              memory_mb: 2048

              num_cpus: 1

          delegate_to: localhost

           # wait_for_ip_address: True

[Jorge Rúa]

Try with :

folder: "{{ yourfolder | d ('/') }}"

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[João Santos]

Hi David

It's a good pratice that you are able to identify uniqueness of the virtual machine and folder will help you to achieve that.

You already have an answer before that might help you out to achieve what you're requesting (no folders).
Nevertheless check here https://github.com/js-max/ansible-vmware-new-vm, might help you to speed up things if need to.

Cheers

[Dick Visser]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 16:53, Jorge Rúa <jruar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try with :
> folder: "{{ yourfolder | d ('/') }}"

For everyone else that is wondering what the 'd' filter is, it's an
alias for 'default' :)


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[David Foley]

When i Enter the virtualMachine Name _ Folder I'm getting the following 

 No Folder /TESTMACHINE match in search path.. 

[David Foley]

Ok I'm using just / as the folder seems to be bypassing that now 

but not sure what could be causing the following:: fatal: [localhost -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to create a virtual machine : Unable to access the virtual machine configuration: Unable to access file [vsanDatastore] /win10-template.vmtx"}