Re: [ansible-project] vmware_guest_network - removing NIC - task completes but does not remove NIC

[Jorge Rúa]

I'd encourage you to this the other way around. First of all not sure why the ova is still using e1000 but that's a separate issue. I'd say to modify your ova and reupload it with the vmxnet3 adapter already set up. 

And the end of the day an ova is just a tar file with some metadata.

Give it a try and let me know.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022, 14:53 Jeff S <jes.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I have a problem with the vmware_guest_network module, i am writing a playbook for creating an OpenShift cluster, and i am using RHCOS as OS for the cluster nodes, the nodes are created through vmware_deploy_ovf which by default attaches a Network Adapter of type vmxnet3 to each node. The problem, the booting VMs network interface wont turn up, i discovered that changing the Adapter type to e1000e will resolve the issue. Yet i cant automate this using Ansible as i cant override the Adapter type of existing NICs nor can i use vmware_guest_network to remove the NIC and replace it with an other. The task succeds, but there is no change to my VMs, the NIC was not removed. I dont really understand why this is happening and why features like these dont work as they should.

PLAYBOOK CODE:

    - name: "Deploy new rhcos VMs from ova"
      community.vmware.vmware_deploy_ovf:
        hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
        username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"
        password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"
        validate_certs: "no"
        datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
        folder: "{{ to_nodes }}"
        ovf: "{{ local_path }}"
        name: "{{ item.key }}"
        networks: "{u'VM Network':u'{{ net }}'}"
        datastore: "{{ item.value.store }}"
        disk_provisioning: "{{ item.value.size_type }}"
        cluster: "{{ cluster_name }}"
        wait: no
        power_on: no
      when: item.key == "loadbalancer" #"worker1" #"loadbalancer"
      loop: "{{ lookup('dict', dict) }}"
      register: tartar

    - name: Remove NIC 

      community.vmware.vmware_guest_network:
        hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
        username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"
        password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"
        validate_certs: "no"
        mac_address: tartar.results.{{ ansible_loop.index0 }}.instance.hw_eth0.macaddress
        folder: "{{ to_nodes }}"
        name: "{{ item.key }}"
        state: absent
      when: item.key == "loadbalancer" #"worker1" #"loadbalancer"
      loop: "{{ lookup('dict', dict) }}"
      loop_control:
        extended: yes
        label: "{{ item.key }}"

RESULT:

TASK [community.vmware.vmware_guest_network] ******************************************************
skipping: [localhost] => (item=master1)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=master3)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=master2)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=worker1)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=infra1)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=infra2)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=worker2)
ok: [localhost] => (item=loadbalancer)
skipping: [localhost] => (item=bootstrap)

The task should have performed a change, its marked in green so no change produced??

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