packer vmware-iso build keeps the VM in the vCenter server

[Prakash Kumar]

After successful packer build the the transient VM gets removed from the ESXi host, but it is not getting removed completely. Because we still see the orphaned VM in the vCenter server.

Please let me know how to remove the VM from the vCenter Server as well, can we do that as part of as packer post-processors?. 

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

What do you mean by transient VM?

Screenshot or copy paste of what you see will help.

Alvaro

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Prakash Kumar <prak...@gmail.com> wrote:

After successful packer build the the transient VM gets removed from the ESXi host, but it is not getting removed completely. Because we still see the orphaned VM in the vCenter server.

Please let me know how to remove the VM from the vCenter Server as well, can we do that as part of as packer post-processors?. 

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[Prakash Kumar]

Transient VM means the VM which gets created in the remote ESXi host during the packer build and gets removed at the end of the build.

Please find the below JSON file i am using for creating an Ubuntu14.04  OVA.

{
	"variables" : {
	"VM_NAME" : "packer-ubuntu14.04.4-amd64",
	"USER_NAME" : "hcoeuser",
	"PASSWORD" : "hcoeuser",
	"VCENTER_HOST" : "15.116.7.121",
	"VCENTER_USER" : "bfftc...@vsphere.local",
	"VCENTER_PASSWORD" : "Happy.new.year-2016",
	"DATACENTER_NAME" : "Datacenter",
	"ESXi_HOST" : "15.116.2.244",
	"ESXi_USER" : "bfftcvcusr",
	"ESXi_PASSWORD" : "Happy.new.year-2016",
	"ESXi_NETWORK" : "VM Network",
	"ESXi_DATASTORE" : "datastore2"
	},
	"builders": [{
	"name": "ubuntu-14.04.4.amd64.vmware",
	"type": "vmware-iso",
	"guest_os_type": "ubuntu-64",
	"iso_url": "ubuntu-14.04.4-server-amd64.iso",
	"iso_checksum": "2ac1f3e0de626e54d05065d6f549fa3a",
	"iso_checksum_type": "md5",
	"ssh_username": "{{user `USER_NAME`}}",
	"ssh_password": "{{user `PASSWORD`}}",
	"ssh_port": 22,
	"ssh_timeout": "30m",
	"http_directory": "http",
	"headless": "false",
	"boot_wait": "10s",
	"boot_command": [
	"<esc><wait>",
	"<esc><wait>",
	"<enter><wait>",
	"/install/vmlinuz<wait>",
	" auto<wait>",
	" console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>",
	" console-setup/layoutcode=us<wait>",
	" console-setup/modelcode=pc105<wait>",
	" debian-installer=en_US<wait>",
	" fb=false<wait>",
	" initrd=/install/initrd.gz<wait>",
	" kbd-chooser/method=us<wait>",
	" keyboard-configuration/layout=USA<wait>",
	" keyboard-configuration/variant=USA<wait>",
	" locale=en_US<wait>",
	" netcfg/get_hostname=ubuntu-1404<wait>",
	" netcfg/get_domain=vagrantup.com<wait>",
	" noapic<wait>",
	" preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg<wait>",
	" -- <wait>",
	"<enter><wait>"
	],
	"vm_name" : "{{user `VM_NAME`}}",
	"disk_size": "512000",
	"disk_type_id": "thin",
	"remote_host": "{{user `ESXi_HOST`}}",
	"remote_datastore": "{{user `ESXi_DATASTORE`}}",
	"remote_username": "{{user `ESXi_USER`}}",
	"remote_password": "{{user `ESXi_PASSWORD`}}",
	"remote_type": "esx5",
	"shutdown_command": "echo \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S shutdown -P now",
	"format": "ova",
	"tools_upload_flavor": "linux",
	"vmx_data": {
	"config.version": 8,
	"virtualHW.version": 8,
	"ethernet0.networkName": "{{user `ESXi_NETWORK`}}",
	"ethernet0.virtualDev": "e1000",
	"memsize": "49152",
	"numvcpus": "8",
	"cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
	"ide0:0.fileName": "disk.vmdk",
	"ide0:0.present": "TRUE",
	"ide0:0.redo": "",
	"scsi0:0.present": "FALSE",
	"RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled": "TRUE",
	"RemoteDisplay.vnc.port":  "5900"
	}
	}],
	"provisioners": [
	{
	"type": "shell-local",
	"command": "rm -f \"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\"\/\"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\".ova\/\"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\".ova"
	},
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"execute_command": "echo  \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'",
	"inline": [
	"mkdir -p /opt/hcoe/startup",
	"mkdir -p /opt/hcoe/kubernetes",
	"mkdir -p /opt/hcoe/agent"
	]
	},
	{
	"type": "file", "source": "scripts/control/firstboot.sh", "destination": "/tmp/firstboot.sh"
	},
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"execute_command": "echo  \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'",
	"inline": [
	"mv /tmp/firstboot.sh /etc/init.d/firstboot.sh",
	"chown root:root /etc/init.d/firstboot.sh",
	"chmod 755 /etc/init.d/firstboot.sh"
	]
	},
	{
	"type": "file", "source": "scripts/control/subsboot.sh", "destination": "/tmp/subsboot.sh"
	},
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"execute_command": "echo  \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'",
	"inline": [
	"mv /tmp/subsboot.sh /etc/init.d/subsboot.sh",
	"chown root:root /etc/init.d/subsboot.sh",
	"chmod 755 /etc/init.d/subsboot.sh"
	]
	},
	{
	"type": "file", "source": "scripts/control/rc.local", "destination": "/tmp/rc.local"
	},
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"execute_command": "echo  \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'",
	"inline": [
	"mv -f /tmp/rc.local /etc/rc.local",
	"chown root:root /etc/rc.local",
	"chmod 755 /etc/rc.local"
	]
	},
	{
	"type": "file", "source": "scripts/startup", "destination": "/tmp/startup"
	},
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"execute_command": "echo  \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'",
	"inline": [
	"mv /tmp/startup /opt/hcoe/",
	"chown -R root:root /opt/hcoe/*",
	"chmod -R 755 /opt/hcoe/*"
	]
	},
	{
	"type": "shell",
	"execute_command": "echo  \"{{user `USER_NAME`}}\"|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'",
	"script": "scripts/control/postinstall.sh"
	}
	],
	"post-processors": [
	{
	"type": "shell-local",
	"inline": [
	"ls -ltr \"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\"\/\"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\".ova\/\"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\".ova",
	"chmod 755 \"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\"\/\"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\".ova\/\"{{user `VM_NAME`}}\".ova"
	]
	},
	{
	"type": "vsphere",
	"host": "{{user `VCENTER_HOST`}}",
	"username": "{{user `VCENTER_USER`}}",
	"password": "{{user `VCENTER_PASSWORD`}}",
	"datacenter": "{{user `DATACENTER_NAME`}}",
	"cluster": "{{user `ESXi_HOST`}}",
	"datastore": "{{user `ESXi_DATASTORE`}}",
	"vm_name": "sanity_ubuntu_14.04_64",
	"insecure": "true",
	"disk_mode": "thin",
	"vm_network": "{{user `ESXi_NETWORK`}}",
	"options": [
	"--powerOn"
	]
	}
	]
	}

On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 18:14:32 UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

Hello

What do you mean by transient VM?

Screenshot or copy paste of what you see will help.

Alvaro

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Prakash Kumar <prak...@gmail.com> wrote:

After successful packer build the the transient VM gets removed from the ESXi host, but it is not getting removed completely. Because we still see the orphaned VM in the vCenter server.

Please let me know how to remove the VM from the vCenter Server as well, can we do that as part of as packer post-processors?. 

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

Thanks

By default on ESXi packer will un-register the VM.

So in a workflow that use OVFTOOLS and shell-local, some people will connect to VCSA and convert the VM to Template, or OVF to OVA, etc, etc.

If you want to keep registered use this:

keep_registered (boolean) - Set this to true if you would like to keep the VM registered with the remote ESXi server. This is convenient if you use packer to provision VMs on ESXi and don't want to use ovftool to deploy the resulting artifact (VMX or OVA or whatever you used as format). Defaults to false.

Thanks

Alvaro

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[Prakash Kumar]

Thanks !!

I am deploying the OVA in "post-processors" section just for some basic sanity test. But actually i don't want the VM after the build. As you mentioned by default the packer un-register the VM only from the ESXi host.. but it is not removing it from the VCSA Inventory. please find the below screenshot for more details..

I am able to manually 'Right click' the VM and select "Remove from Inventory" option to delete the VM from VSCA as well.

Regards,

Prakash

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

That is correct, packer won't remove the build.

VCSA may need a refresh after the VM gets unregistered on the ESX host.

you can use OVFTools and shell-local for that too.

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[Prakash Kumar]

Thanks !!!

Can you please let me know how to refresh the VCSA using OVFTOOLS and shell-local via packer ?

Is it possible to send the exact lines which i have to add it in my JSON file ?

Regards,
Prakash,.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

Maybe I spoke too fast.

Are 2 tools that you can check. Also as VCSA is a paid product, I would contact VMWare too for more options.

OVFTool:

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ovf/

govc:

https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/tree/master/govc

Thanks

Alvaro.

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[Prakash Kumar]

Thanks a Lot !!!   I will get back to you if i need any other help.

-Prakash