Comments on: Deploying multiple vSphere VMs with Terraform

By: Emil

Emil — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 20:10:31 +0000

In reply to S G Gopi.

Hi!

Unfortunately, I don’t think I can help you. 🙁 I’ve not been in vSphere for a long time – about two years at least. So I’m not familiar with current modules. 🙁

By: S G Gopi

S G Gopi — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:04:26 +0000

Hello Emil,

I am actually trying to deploy the linux servers into vpshere vcenter through terraform script,But i have query when i want to deploy the multi servers into multi compute cluster in vcenter. like for 3 servers into 3 clusters like Round Robbin method. Can we achieved in terraform script

By: Emil

Emil — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:37:47 +0000

In reply to Sara.

I’m afraid, that I’m a little bit out of date with Terraform and vSphere. 🙁 But if I understand well, first you have for example loop over

count = 2

and before the second attempt, you change that to

count = 5

right? Because if you try to do something like this:

1. Set count to 3.
2. Run terraform apply
3. Wait to the end
4. Run terraform apply one more time WITHOUT changing count

then it doesn’t work in fact. And it won’t work. But if you change the value of count, then I don’t have any idea. 🙁

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 23:42:03 +0000

Hi, In vsphere i was able to create an multiple vm’s in the first attempt of “terraform apply” , when i’m trying to create a 3 more vm’s in the second attempts , during the 2nd time terraform not picks the new available ip’s automatically from vsphere , however it says no changes required ( since it’s refers existing vm’s) appreciate of any help on this issue

By: Emil

Emil — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:43:09 +0000

In reply to M Rao.

Hi! Unfortunately, I’ve not been working with Terraform and vSphere anymore. 🙁 As far as I know, there were many changes to vSphere provider, and the network is one of the most changed parts. I’m afraid that my configs are not valid anymore. As far as I remember, ipv4_gateway is not a part of the network_interface section anymore.

Maybe something like this will help? But I don’t have a possibility to test that configuration:

clone { template_uuid = "${data.vsphere_virtual_machine.template.id}"


    customize {

      linux_options {

        host_name = "TEST-${count.index +1}"

        domain    = "test.internal"

      }

network_interface { ipv4_address = "10.20.30.${40 + count.index}" ipv4_netmask = "24" } ipv4_gateway = "10.20.30.1" } }

Please see the vSphere Provider documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vsphere/r/virtual_machine.html#cloning-and-customization-example

By: M Rao

M Rao — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:06:26 +0000

I just started the automating the IT infrastructure related day to day activities with Terraform. In this process I trying to provision VMs in VMware vSphere environment.

VM got created in vCenter, however Gateway IP aadderss & DNS IP address are not got assigned in the VM

can you please help me.

Thank you
M Rao

Can you please share your valuable inputs to automate the creation of VM activity.

Thank you