Vagrant and Vcenter: direct workflow

[Mariusz]

Hi guys,

I've been searching around if it is possible to provision VMs using Vagrant directly connected to Vcenter and not underlying ESXi?
Has anyone done this or seen some docs?
I have ESXi HA cluster of 3 hosts and would like to provision VMs  using Packer and Vagrant. 

I'd be grateful for any directions.
Thanks

[dragon788]

I believe the vSphere provider supports this, you may still use a connector labeled ESXi but it can be given the cluster address instead of a node address.

[Mariusz]

Nice! Thanks a lot, just searched for this and looks like your are right. In the documentation it says:

"ESXi is not supported. Make sure to connect to a vCenter server and not directly to an ESXi host. ESXi vs vCenter"

I will give it a try then and will use https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere.

[JP Toto]

If you're trying to create instances on a remote server, like ESXi, Packer would be a better tool as it's purpose-built for the task. This https://nickcharlton.net/posts/using-packer-esxi-6.html is a good blog post for configuring ESXi to accept Packer commands and there is a link to a Github repo with a good example. 

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