[chef] Re: knife-vsphere permission denied

[Jesse Campbell < >]

I haven't ever seen the permission denied error before, that is
getting sent back to you from the rbvmomi plugin directly so it may be
beyond my ability to fix.
I currently have two datacenters, ATL.SETG and ATL2.SETG. As you can
see from the below command output, it is case sensitive. You are
correctly specifying the options in your config file.

with:
knife[:vsphere_dc] = "ATL.SETG"
$ knife vsphere vm list
Folder Name: Devel
Folder Name: Production
Folder Name: Templates
VM Name: New Virtual Machine
VM Name: VUM_Stage

with:
knife[:vsphere_dc] = "atl.setg"
$ knife vsphere vm list
datacenter not found

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 18:04,  
<
 >
 wrote:
> Hello Chefs! I hope one of you might have a little experience with the knife
> vsphere plugin. It would be sooooooo cool to make this work in our 
> environment
> and make my bosses happy so they will pay me more money :D
>
> So, the problem is: even though I have full admin privileges on the 
> Datacenter
> I'm trying to deploy to, when I run 'knife vsphere vm list', I get the
> following output:
>
> ERROR: RbVmomi::Fault: NoPermission: Permission to perform this operation 
> was
> denied.
>
> full stack trace:
>
> DEBUG: Using configuration from /home/miles/.chef/knife.rb
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:47:in
> `parse_response': NoPermission: Permission to perform this operation was
> denied. (RbVmomi::Fault)
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/connection.rb:71:in
> `call'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:182:in
> `_call'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/basic_types.rb:70:in
> `block (2 levels) in init'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/vim/Folder.rb:7:in
> `find'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/vim/Folder.rb:83:in
> `traverse'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/rbvmomi-1.2.3/lib/rbvmomi/vim/ServiceInstance.rb:8:in
> `find_datacenter'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/knife-vsphere-0.1.6/lib/chef/knife/BaseVsphereCommand.rb:101:in
> `find_folder'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/knife-vsphere-0.1.6/lib/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_list.rb:50:in
> `run'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/knife.rb:391:in
> `run_with_pretty_exceptions'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/knife.rb:166:in
> `run'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/chef-0.10.8/lib/chef/application/knife.rb:128:in
> `run'
>        from
> /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/gems/chef-0.10.8/bin/knife:25:in `<top
> (required)>'
>        from /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/bin/knife:19:in `load'
>        from /home/miles/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p318/bin/knife:19:in `<main>'
>
> My knife.rb vsphere values:
>
> knife[:vsphere_host] = "10.10.0.4"
> knife[:vsphere_user] = "miles"
> knife[:vsphere_pass] = "foo"
> knife[:vsphere_dc] = "Labs"
>
> If I comment out the vsphere_dc option in my knife.rb and run knife vsphere 
> vm
> list again, it *works*, but selects the first datacenter it finds on the
> vsphere host, which of course is not the datacenter I want. If I enable
> vsphere_dc again and use a random value, it comes back with the same 
> permission
> denied error, which leads me to believe that vsphere_dc should be in some
> format that's not obvious.
>
> I have installed rvc and am able to connect to my vcenter server and list
> datacenters, which appear named exactly as I have specified in knife.rb. 
> Don't
> know if this applicable or not.
>
> That's where I'm stuck. Any help is appreciated. BTW I'm chef v0.10.8. Let 
> me
> know if you guys need any additional info.
>
> Thanks yall!
>
> -Miles Monteleone