[chef] Re: Re: Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin ?

[Jesse Campbell < >]

I use it a little with my 300vm infrastructure, and I'm one of the
contributors to the plugin.
We also run AD and I login without trouble as an AD user.
I do not specify the domain anywhere in the configuration, it appears
to use the default AD domain of the vcenter server. I specify the
username as:
username

Here's the appropriate section of my knife.rb:

knife[:vsphere_host] = "192.168.10.70"
knife[:vsphere_user] = "jesse"
knife[:vsphere_pass] = "password"
knife[:vsphere_dc] = "datacenter"

-Jesse

On Apr 3, 2012 1:39 AM, "Torben Knerr" 
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 wrote:
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> Hi Randy,
>
> I've had "knife vsphere template list" working with a local user. Apart 
> from that test I haven't really used it yet, but that was my plan at least 
> (don't have the time to work in that currently)...
>
> So I would also be interested in other peoples experience with it.
>
> BTW: did you create the vm templates manually? I've been setting up some 
> Vagrant baseboxes using VeeWee and and wanted to use the same mechanism for 
> creating vsphere vm templates, but somehow I couldn't get it to work that 
> way...
>
> Cheers,
> Torben
>
> Am 02.04.2012 17:54 schrieb "Van Fossan,Randy" 
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 >:
>>
>> Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin?  I am trying to use it 
>> without success.   We have a large Virtual environment with 3000+ VM’s 
>> with many Virtual Center Servers, Data Centers and clusters.  Some are 
>> geographically dispersed.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are using Active Directoy integration with ESXi and Virtual Center.   
>> The documentation refers to named user authentication, so a domain user in 
>> the format domain\username should work?
>>
>>
>>
>> I always get the following whe running a  “knife vsphere template list”
>>
>> ERROR: RbVmomi::Fault: InvalidLogin: Cannot complete login due to an 
>> incorrect user name or password.
>>
>>
>>
>> I suppose the next step is to create local accounts on a Virtual Center 
>> server and re-test???
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>   Randy
>>
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