Salt-cloud - VMWARE Template Library

[serakhi amine]

Hello community,

I am facing issues with configuring VMWARE provider for Salt-cloud, the problem is with some templates that are not viewables by salt-cloud.

The concerned templates are stored within the "Template library" of vcenter.

Thanks for your help.

Amine
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Amine SERAKHI  | Ingénieur d'état en Systèmes d'Information,

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systèmes(ENSIAS),

[serakhi amine]

Hello team,

Some help please

[David Boucha]

Hi there.

Can you provide sanitized copies of your salt configs and your salt-cloud configs?  That would help us know how to help you.

Thanks!

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[serakhi amine]

Hello and thank you for your response,

please find below the steps of what i did:

1. I edited /etc/salt/cloud.providers.d/vmware.conf 

my-vmware-config:
  driver: vmware
  user: 'user'
  password: 'verybadpass'
  url: 'xx.xx.xx.xx'

2. I run salt-cloud --list-images my-vmware-config.

I see some images/VMWARe Templates (these templates are not within the VMWARE CONTENT LIBRARY)

The problem is that is "salt-cloud --list-image my-vmware-config" doesn't list  templates within the CONTENT LIBRARY "https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-F7BF0E6B-7C4F-4E46-8BBF-76229AEA7220.html"

Thank you very much.

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[serakhi amine]

Hello

Some Help please :)

[David Fidler]

Hi Amine,

There are two things I would check.  First, are there any extra permissions required for a service user to see templates in the Content Library (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-D490C499-8D68-42A1-AEB2-781F1DDA8A93.html).  If the service user that you're using in your salt-cloud driver has the correct permissions then check to see if *any* templates from any of your content libraries are showing up.

If you've set the correct permissions and you still don't see any templates from any of your content libraries then it's likely that the API calls that the salt-cloud vmware driver uses to query for the available images doesn't see the templates in the content library (I don't have access to a VMWare instance so I'm not able to actually see what those calls would return).

If you've confirmed the permissions and confirmed that no templates are visible from any content libraries that you've created, then it's best to raise an issue in github (https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues) and describe the problem there. 

Cheers,
Dave.

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[serakhi amine]

Hello and thank you david for your response,

I checked the permissions everything is okay. I guess the problem is with the extension of the template: in fact, when a VM is converted to a model "template within the content library", the result is an OVF file.

Vcenter: 6.7 update 1

Best regards.

Amine

[serakhi amine]

Hello

Any help please

[David Fidler]

Hi Amine,

As I mentioned before, the best way to have this looked at is to raise an issue in github (https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues).  The other option is, if you have a support contract with SaltStack, you can raise the issue with SaltStack's support team and have their support teams look at it.

From what I can see from the code, the "avail_images" method queries vcenter for a list of vms and checks for the "config.tempate" property for each record that's returned and it builds the list that way.

I'm not a vmware expert (and I don't have access to a vmware instance to check) but my guess is that the templates in the content library are not being returned as part of that query - but that is solely based on the fact that you've said that you have double-checked permissions on the content libraries for your service account, and that you aren't seeing any templates from the content library when you run --list-images.

Cheers,
Dave.

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