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Aniruddha J
Aniruddha J

Reputation: 395

using Ansible with VMware ESXi Server

I want to automate VM creation on ESXi server from Ansible. I am supposed to install pysphere module on VMWare ESXi Server. But this server does not use apt, yum or easy-install. Even if I try to use shell commands, I get errors related to dependencies on ESXi server. Is there any workaround available for this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 914

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68319

I am supposed to install pysphere module on VMWare ESXi Server

Why do you think so?

Usually you call VM provisioning modules like vsphere_guest from your Ansible control host (localhost), so pysphere should be installed on your localhost and not on ESXi server.

Example:

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - vsphere_guest:
      vcenter_hostname: vcenter.mydomain.local
      username: myuser
      password: mypass
      guest: newvm001
      state: absent
      force: yes

Upvotes: 2

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