Tag: vsphere

Deploying multiple vSphere VMs with Terraform

 

Automation doesn’t mean only the ability to automate some process and repeating it over and over again. It means also the ability to automate every automated process – if it’s possible of course. So even if we can automatically deploy VM, why shouldn’t we try to deploy multiple machines? Everything is fine until we need to deploy three, four or more same virtual servers. It would be very annoying unless we automate also this process – process of deploying multiple vSphere VMs with Terraform. If you haven’t read my previous article, you can do it here: Deploying vSphere VM with Terraform. Continue reading

Terraform vSphere provider is alive again – hostname variable

 

Yes, I have been waiting for it for a long time! When Hashicorp decided to separate Terraform Core from Providers, vSphere Provider died. It lasted two months – no merging, no new releases. But it has changed at the end of the August – Chris Marchesi (better known as vancluever) took the matter into his own hands and he’s now taking care of re the repository. It’s great news, especially for those of us who use Terraform in the daily work with the vSphere. Terraform vSphere provider allows to use different hostname and name Chris has made a lot of work since Continue reading

Using Terraform to deploy VM with an additional disk in vSphere

 

Some time ago I wrote a post, which explains how to deploy VM in vSphere using a Terraform. It’s something like a universal Terraform configuration for vSphere. You don’t need to manually specify any variable. The most vars are based on the variable mappings. Today I want to show you another code – this time you will see how to create a VM with an additional disk. In theory, it doesn’t need many changes, but I am not confined just to create a disk. I also want to make it usable by the Operating System and ensure that disk will Continue reading

Deploying vSphere VM with Terraform

 

Do you know when infrastructure deploying was revolutionized? It was the day when the world saw the Terraform for the first time. Yes, Infrastructure as a Code is a great idea which can simplify our infrastructure provisioning. We can see the full power of the Terraform just with an AWS, but it can be also used with another Cloud Providers. In the Terraform documentation, you can find Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Microsoft Azure, but also private and on-premise providers like Openstack or VMware vSphere. I work with VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Director, so Terraform is designed for me too! Continue reading

ESXi upgrade permission denied

 

There are many bad things which can happen during the infrastructure upgrade. Sometimes it is caused by a sysadmin mistake, sometimes it may be a software bug, but it really does not matter what the main reason is. You must fix it. Nowadays we have much easier job than – for instance – twenty years ago. Now we have Google, lots of blogs and other pages with millions of information. However, we should follow the way created on our own. Take a look on this scenario: