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

["Van Fossan,Randy" < >]

Hi Jesse,

I do see all my VLANs from the datacenter an example is shown below:

C:\opscode\chef\bin>knife vsphere vlan list
VLAN: 123VLAN
VLAN: 456VLAN
VLAN: 789VLAN
VLAN: VLAN077
VLAN: VLAN088
VLAN: VLAN199

Note: for security reasons, I have sanitized the list above.   Suffices
me to say that the VLAN I specified in the knife vsphere command is in
the list of returned VLANs.

The chef-client version is 0.14.2 

Randy


-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Campbell 
[mailto:
 
 
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 5:27 PM
To: 

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

what do you get from "knife vsphere vlan list"?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Van Fossan,Randy 
<
 >
wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> Well, I got a little farther.  However the option for --cvlan do not
> seem to work.   I made sure the VLAN value was correct.   Note: I have
> sanitized the values so that I could publicly post the results.
>
>
> C:\opscode\chef\bin>knife vsphere vm clone --template "CentOS 5.8"
> "mytestvm.fqdn" --cvlan "123VLAN" -VV
> DEBUG: Using configuration from C:/Users/myacct/.chef/knife.rb
> DEBUG: value for config item bootstrap:
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_host: myvcenter.fqdn
> DEBUG: value for config item vshere_path:
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_port: 443
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_nossl:
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_user: myacct
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_pass: mypassword
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_insecure: true
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_dc: myvspheredc
> DEBUG: value for config item folder:
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_dc: myvspheredc
> DEBUG: value for config item resource_pool:
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_dc: myvspheredc
> DEBUG: value for config item datastore:
> DEBUG: value for config item customization_cpucount:
> DEBUG: value for config item customization_memory:
> DEBUG: value for config item customization_vlan: 123VLAN
> DEBUG: value for config item customization_vlan: 123VLAN
> DEBUG: value for config item vsphere_dc: myvspheredc 
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/knife-vsphere-0.2.3/
> li b/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb:256:in `rescue in generate_clo
> ne_spec': undefined method `deviceName=' for
> #<RbVmomi::VIM::VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo:0
> x4
> 63e4e0> (NoMethodE
> rror)
>         from
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/knife-vsphere-0.2.3/
> li b/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb:251:in `generate_ clone_spec'
>         from
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/knife-vsphere-0.2.3/
> li b/chef/knife/vsphere_vm_clone.rb:188:in `run'
>         from
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.12.0/lib/che
> f/ knife.rb:402:in `run_with_pretty_exceptions'
>         from
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.12.0/lib/che
> f/
> knife.rb:168:in `run'
>         from
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.12.0/lib/che
> f/
> application/knife.rb:123:in `run'
>         from
> C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-10.12.0/bin/kni
> fe
> :25:in `<top (required)>'
>         from C:/opscode/chef/bin/knife:19:in `load'
>         from C:/opscode/chef/bin/knife:19:in `<main>'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Campbell 
> [mailto:
 
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 12:02 PM
> To: 
> 
 
> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
>
> the documentation for mixlib::CLI is terrible, and I'm not even sure 
> why not specifying something after ":long --vshost" switches from a 
> boolean to a string, given that there is a :boolean element in the 
> option hash...
> still digging...
>
> -jesse
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Van Fossan,Randy 
> <
 >
> wrote:
>> Thanks Jesse, that worked..
>>
>>   Randy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jesse Campbell 
>> [mailto:
 
>> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 11:34 AM
>> To: 
>> 
 
>> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
>>
>> looks like a bug in BaseVsphereCommand.rb I have changed the relevant

>> section to this:
>>
>>         option :vsphere_host,
>>           :long => "--vshost HOST",
>>           :description => "The vsphere host"
>>
>> You can update your own for now until a new rubygem is created.
>>
>> What other changes did you need to make to run on windows?
>>
>> -Jesse
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Van Fossan,Randy 
>> <
 >
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Jesse,
>>>
>>> The following does not work, I get the error "can't convert true 
>>> into
>
>>> String"
>>>
>>> # knife vsphere -u myaccount -p mypassword --vshost myhost.fqdn -d 
>>> "mydatacenter" --vsinsecure vm list # ERROR: TypeError: can't 
>>> convert
>
>>> true into String
>>>
>>> If I change my knife.rb to include  "knife[:vsphere_host] = 
>>> "myhost.fqdn" "  and then run the following, it works.
>>> # knife vsphere -u myaccount -p mypassword -d "mydatacenter"
>>> --vsinsecure vm list
>>>
>>> I need to be able to specify the --vshost as we have many Virtual 
>>> Center Servers.
>>>
>>> I looked at the code here:
>>> https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/knif
>>> e
>>> /
>>> Ba
>>> seVsphereCommand.rb
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jesse Campbell 
>>> [mailto:
 
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 10:55 AM
>>> To: 
>>> 
 
>>> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Knife-vSphere plugin (windows)
>>>
>>> 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 
>>> <
 >
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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: 
>>>> '
 '
>>>> 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
>>>> To: 
>>>> '
 '
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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