Thanks Mikhail,
It was a configuration issue.The osid is given wrong. It worked after
changing to ubuntu64Guest.
On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 4:26:45 PM UTC-7, Mikhail Koshelev wrote:
>
> Hi Tarun,
>
> Most probably you have some issue with provided configuration parameters
> for VM. From my experience, "Must call 'connect' before invoking this
> method" is a generic error reported by vsphere_guest module when VMware is
> unable to create the VM.
> To see what exactly is wrong - connect to your target vCenter (or ESXi)
> server with vSphere client and check the tasks status panel when running
> the playbook. The error message there usually shows a clue on what item in
> VM configuration causes error.
>
>
> On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 10:46:11 AM UTC-7, tarun emany wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> While deploying new VM to vCenter using Ansible playbook I am getting the
>> following error.
>>
>> failed: [127.0.0.1] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File
>> "/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1432176296.75-239675909842816/vsphere_guest",
>> line 2923, in <module>
>> main()
>> File
>> "/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1432176296.75-239675909842816/vsphere_guest",
>> line 1312, in main
>> state=state
>> File
>> "/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1432176296.75-239675909842816/vsphere_guest",
>> line 901, in create_vm
>> task.get_error_message())
>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysphere/vi_task.py", line
>> 82, in get_error_message
>> self.__poll_task_info()
>> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysphere/vi_task.py", line
>> 120, in __poll_task_info
>> raise e
>> pysphere.resources.vi_exception.VIException: [Not Connected]: Must call
>> 'connect' before invoking this method
>>
>>
>> FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting
>>
>> I have installed pysphere and created following yml and tried execution.
>>
>> My playbook.yml is
>>
>> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
>> connection: local
>> user: root
>> sudo: false
>> gather_facts: false
>> serial: 1
>> tasks:
>> - vsphere_guest:
>> vcenter_hostname: xxxxxx
>> username: xxxxx
>> password: xxxx
>> guest: SampleVM
>> state: powered_on
>> vm_extra_config:
>> vcpu.hotadd: yes
>> mem.hotadd: yes
>> notes: This is a test VM
>> vm_disk:
>> disk1:
>> size_gb: 10
>> type: thin
>> datastore: xxxxxx
>> vm_nic:
>> nic1:
>> type: vmxnet3
>> network: vm
>> network_type: standard
>> vm_hardware:
>> memory_mb: 1024
>> num_cpus: 1
>> osid: UbuntuLinux
>> scsi: paravirtual
>> esxi:
>> datacenter: xxxxxx
>> hostname: xxxxx
>>
>>
>> Please help me out.
>>
>>
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