Build with vsphere on esxi node not connected to destination cluster

[Hendrik]

Hi,

I'm building a vm with packer and vmware-iso on a second esxi node. This node is not connected to the vsphere-cluster where the vm should be published.
Copying the image to the cluster with vmware-iso works but vsphere-template fails with an error:

    vmware-iso (vsphere): Completed successfully
    vmware-iso (vsphere):
==> vmware-iso: Running post-processor: vsphere-template
    vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Waiting 10s for VMware vSphere to start
    vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Choosing datacenter...
    vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Creating or checking destination folders...
    vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Marking as a template...
==> vmware-iso (vsphere-template): VM at path /DC02/vm/Discovered virtual machine/centos7_1711 not found

I dont know how packer assembles this path.
My json looks like this:

{
    "builders": [
        {
            "boot_command": [
               "<tab> text ks=hd:fd0:/ks.cfg ip=dhcp <enter><wait><wait><enter>"
            ],
            "boot_wait": "10s",
            "disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}",
            "disk_type_id": "thin",
            "floppy_files": [
                "anaconda/ks.cfg"
            ],
            "format": "ovf",
            "guest_os_type": "rhel7-64",
            "headless": "true",
            "iso_checksum": "bba314624956961a2ea31dd460cd860a77911c1e0a56e4820a12b9c5dad363f5",
            "iso_checksum_type": "sha256",
            "iso_url": "http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso",
            "keep_registered": "true",
            "output_directory": "output-{{build_type}}",
            "remote_cache_datastore": "{{user `datastore`}}",
            "remote_cache_directory": "cache",
            "remote_datastore": "{{user `esxi_datastore`}}",
            "remote_host": "{{user `esxi_host`}}",
            "remote_password": "{{user `esxi_password`}}",
            "remote_type": "esx5",
            "remote_username": "{{user `esxi_user`}}",
            "shutdown_command": "echo {{user `ssh_pass`}} | sudo -S systemctl poweroff",
            "ssh_password": "{{user `ssh_pass`}}",
            "ssh_timeout": "{{user `ssh_timeout`}}",
            "ssh_username": "{{user `ssh_name`}}",
            "type": "vmware-iso",
            "vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}",
            "vmx_data": {
                "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "2",
                "ethernet0.networkName": "VM Network",
                "ethernet0.virtualDev": "vmxnet3",
                "memsize": "1024",
                "numvcpus": "2"
            }
        }
    ],
    "post-processors": [
        [{
            "cluster": "{{user `vsphere_prod_cluster`}}",
            "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_prod_datacenter`}}",
            "datastore": "{{user `vsphere_prod_datastore`}}",
            "host": "{{user `vsphere_prod_host`}}",
            "insecure": "true",
            "overwrite": "true",
            "password": "{{user `vsphere_prod_pass`}}",
            "resource_pool": " ",
            "type": "vsphere",
            "username": "{{user `vsphere_prod_username`}}",
            "vm_folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}",
            "vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}"
        },
        {
            "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_prod_datacenter`}}",
            "folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}",
            "host": "{{user `vsphere_prod_host`}}",
            "insecure": true,
            "password": "{{user `vsphere_prod_pass`}}",
            "type": "vsphere-template",
            "username": "{{user `vsphere_prod_username`}}"
        }],
        {
            "cluster": "{{user `vsphere_dev_cluster`}}",
            "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_dev_datacenter`}}",
            "datastore": "{{user `vsphere_dev_datastore`}}",
            "host": "{{user `vsphere_dev_host`}}",
            "insecure": "true",
            "overwrite": "true",
            "password": "{{user `vsphere_dev_pass`}}",
            "resource_pool": " ",
            "type": "vsphere",
            "username": "{{user `vsphere_dev_username`}}",
            "vm_folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}",
            "vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}"
        },
        {
            "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_dev_datacenter`}}",
            "folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}",
            "host": "{{user `vsphere_dev_host`}}",
            "insecure": true,
            "password": "{{user `vsphere_dev_pass`}}",
            "type": "vsphere-template",
            "username": "{{user `vsphere_dev_username`}}"
        }
    ],
    "provisioners": [
        {
            "ansible_env_vars": [
                "ANSIBLE_NOCOWS=1"
            ],
            "extra_arguments": [
                "--extra-vars",
                "ansible_become_pass={{user `ssh_pass`}} ansible_become_user=root ansible_ssh_user={{user `ssh_name`}} ansible_become=true ansible_ssh_pass={{user `ssh_pass`}} ansible_become_method=sudo root_pass={{user `root_pass`}} admin=pass={{user `admin_pass`}}"
            ],
            "playbook_file": "../ansible/bootstrap-{{user `image_name`}}/bootstrap.yml",
            "type": "ansible",
            "user": "{{user `ssh_name`}}"
        }
    ],
    "variables": {
        "admin_pass": "",
        "disk_size": "20480",
        "esxi_datastore": "",
        "esxi_host": "",
        "esxi_password": "",
        "esxi_user": "",
        "hostname": "centos",
        "image_name": "centos7_1711",
        "memory": "1024",
        "root_pass": "",
        "ssh_name": "administrator",
        "ssh_pass": "administrator",
        "ssh_timeout": "20m",
        "vsphere_dev_address": "",
        "vsphere_dev_datacenter": "",
        "vsphere_dev_datastore": "",
        "vsphere_dev_host": "",
        "vsphere_dev_pass": "",
        "vsphere_dev_username": "",
        "vsphere_prod_address": "",
        "vsphere_prod_datacenter": "",
        "vsphere_prod_datastore": "",
        "vsphere_prod_host": "",
        "vsphere_prod_pass": "",
        "vsphere_prod_username": ""
    }
}

Packer version is 1.1.2.
Does anybody have a working .json on this setup?

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

there is no template in standalone ESXi

can you clone a VM into a template in that ESXi directly?

Alvaro.

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[Hendrik]

I'm creating the vm with vmware-iso on a secondary single esxi host and post-process it with "vsphere" to upload it to my vsphere-cluster.
After that I would like to mark the uploaded vm on my cluster as a template.

The single esxi machine IS NOT CONNECTED to the vsphere cluster.

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