Well. after further thought... When I did this, I used the VMware modules, like those at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_cloud_modules.html#vmware
These require use of the VMware vSphere API Python Bindings , pyvmomi. https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi You install pyvmomi on the machine you are running the Ansible playbooks from. Then when you run a playbook that uses a VMware module, the playbook uses pyvmomi to connect directly to the ESXi hypervisor (or vCenter) using the VMware API. Not ssh. The machine you run playbooks from has to have network access to the ESXi hypervisor or vCenter on the various ports that the vSphere API requires. HTH some more. Greg On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:07:09 UTC-7, Greg Porter wrote: > > Hmm. Well, by default ESXi hypervisors have ssh turned off. You need to > manually go turn it on. Make sure ssh is running on the host. > https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-6-5/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vcli.getstart.doc%2FGUID-C3A44A30-EEA5-4359-A248-D13927A94CCE.html > > HTH > > Greg > > On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 07:09:58 UTC-7, Bishwajit Samanta wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to connect esxi 6.5 with ansible. I have copied ssh keys >> using ssh-copy-id to root id of the esxi server but when i am executing >> ansible -m ping vmware(ip) it says permission denied. Any idea how to make >> it work out ? >> >> 192.168.119.129 | UNREACHABLE! => { >> "changed": false, >> "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied >> (publickey,keyboard-interactive).\r\n", >> "unreachable": true >> } >> >> Sudoers is not there in esxi servers.. am i missing any point >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/429113e9-30e6-47df-95fe-a443b535e626%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
