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

[Jesse Campbell < >]

What have you had work vs. not work?
I'm pretty sure I tested both of those options back when I coded them,
but it was many months ago, and I currently only test on mac os...
but documentation around the "option" specifications is sparse or
nonexistent, so some pieces may have been missed.

however, what variable is missing in what you posted? the first option
sets config[:vsphere_dc], the second option sets config[:vsphere_host]

-jesse


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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> 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
> To: 
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> Subject: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
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> 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
> To: 
> '
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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