[chef] Re: "knife-vsphere vm vmdk add" cannot find VM

[Aimelyne Mochiron < >]

Hi Anna,

Could you please post a verbose output (-VV flag)? At the least, knowing 
which call fails would be useful.

Did you try and run your issue past the knife-vsphere devs: 
https://github.com/ezrapagel/knife-vsphere?

am

On 17 Mar 2014, at 19:25, Anna Redding 
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> Hello all, 
> 
> I have not heard anything back so re-posting.  
> 
> I 'really' need to get this resolved (see atached email) as the automation 
> code I've written needs to be used to build out an environment tomorrow or 
> Wed. We will have to have manual intervention if I don't get this working 
> and that is what we are trying to eliminate. 
> 
> So ANY' ideas are most welcome!!!!
> 
> I've tried putting the VM directly under the data center level; I've tried 
> referencing via  IPaddr; I've tried the long form of the hostname; I've 
> verified spelling; I've verified the VM is really on the data store I'm 
> pointing to on the command line... no matter what, I receive the same error 
> indicating it cannot find the VM...yet it was created using the "knife 
> vsphere vm clone" command. 
> 
> What else can it be???
> 
> Even if you think it's an 'obvious' answer, please run it past me.  
> 
> Thank you in advance. 
> Anna
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Anna Redding 
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>  wrote:
> 
>> All
>> 
>> Once again, I am perplexed. After cloning my VMs from template (via a 
>> script using 'knife vsphere vm clone...'), I am trying to add additional 
>> vmdks to each VM so we can create additional mount points on different 
>> virtual disks. 
>> 
>> Again, I am using 'knife vsphere' but with the vm vmdk add' arguments. It 
>> is erroring stating it cannot find the VM. 
>> 
>> I have verified the VM is on the data store.  I have verified in vcenter, 
>> the VM is under the expected folder. 
>> 
>> When I issue the command 'knife vsphere vm vmdk list --recursive ...', I 
>> see the VM and it is under the expected folder (called VMbuildout)....
>> But when I execute the command:
>> 'knife vsphere vm vmdk add  <VM>...'
>> It errors with "Cannot find <VM>"
>> 
>> Oh, also, there are NO special characters in the VM's name.  
>> 
>> So...what am I missing here???
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Anna
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone