how to convert Template to VM

[olivier pouilly]

Hi all,

I tried to convert my template to a VM.

I created a playbook to do that but when I play the playbook it, It don't work:

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Create a VM template
    vmware_guest: hostname=192.168.0.1 username=usernme password=password validate_certs=no datacenter='Datacenter' esxi_hostname='esx' name='VM' is_template=no

I wonder if this is possible. Do you have any idea ?

Best regards,

[Sebastien Desbois]

Hello,

It is possible.
Seems that you are missing a few parameters

Here is an example of task that can work: (the 

  tasks:

   - name: Create VM from template

     vmware_guest:

       hostname: "{{vcenter_IP}}"

       username: "{{vcenter_user}}"

       password: "{{vcenter_pass}}"

       validate_certs: no

       datacenter: "{{vcenter_datacenter}}"

       cluster: "{{vcenter_cluster}}"

       resource_pool: "{{ vcenter_resource_pool }}"

       folder: "{{folder}}"

       name: "{{hostname}}"

       state: poweredoff

       template: "{{template}}"

       hardware:

         memory_mb: "{{ram}}"

         num_cpus: "{{vcpu}}"

What are the error messages you have ?

[Sebastien Desbois]

Sorry, I didn't understand properly.

You want to convert a template to a VM.

Can't do that with vmware_guest.

To do that, I'm using a Powercli script executed by Ansible.