[chef] RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)

["Van Fossan,Randy" < >]

Well, I spoke too soon.   I thought I tried the --vshost correctly but, I 
still had the entry in my knife.rb file for the vsphere_host.   Looking at 
the source for knife-vsphere; specifically, the BaseVsphereCommand.rb file, 
it shows the --vshost but it doesn't look like it is coded correctly.?.?.?

If you look at the vsphere_dc section versus the vsphere_host section, it 
looks like a variable is missing.?.?.?

  option :vsphere_dc,
       :short => "-d DATACENTER",
       :long => "--vsdc DATACENTER",
       :description => "The Datacenter for vsphere"

  option :vsphere_host,
      :long => "--vshost",
      :description => "The vsphere host"

Anyone concur?

Randy
                                
-----Original Message-----
From: Van Fossan,Randy 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 2:12 PM
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Subject: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)

After looking at the source, I see you can specify the Datacenter and vSphere 
host.  I tried it "-d" and --vshost options and they do work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Van Fossan,Randy 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 1:59 PM
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Subject: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)

All,

I am having some success with the knife-vsphere (0.2.3) plugin in windows.  
We have the Chef 0.10.12 Omnibus package for Windows installed and we then 
installed the knife-vsphere plugin.     The plugin seems to work ok  in 
windows after I did a little gem cleanup..   My question is, is there a way 
to pass the vsphere_dc and vspere_host via the command line?   I have tried 
setting windows environment variables as follows and it isn't working.

vsphere_host="mvcenter.fqdn"
vshrere_dc="mydatacenter"

We have many Data Centers on multiple Virtual Center servers.

We need to run knife-vsphere on a windows chef management console due to 
using VMware Orchestrator and PowerCLI as a wrapper around the "knife 
vsphere" command.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
  Randy