Hello You could use packer to upload the VM to a different vcenter?
Or you could use the post-processor shell to run commands from the command line. There is a tool called ovftool and there is other called govc that can do operations like the one you want. As time permits have a look at those. Alvaro On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Shankar Bala <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for your help..somehow "administrator" user on vcenter didnt work > ..as it was giving error "permission denied"..i have to create another user > and give admin privileges and then it worked. > > I have one question ..since I have this vm template now on my dev vcenter, > i would like to copy that template to a different vcenter on my production > network.. > > can packer or any other tool available to do this task ? > > any suggestions would help > > Thanks > Shankar > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:08 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> you have to change all the values to fit your own environment. So if your >> datacenter construct in vCenter is called "MyDatacenter" then enter >> "MyDatacenter". >> >> if you can share a screenshot of your vCenter inventory (Host view) i can >> verify the values. >> >> On Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 6:33:06 PM UTC+1, Shankar Bala wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I am targetting vcenter only..i have my own datacenter..datacenter have >>> to point to "ha-datacenter" or my own datacenter ? >>> >>> Shankar >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 9:40 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Just to be sure: Are you targeting a vCenter server and not an ESXi >>>> host directly? >>>> >>>> { >>>> "type": "vsphere-template", >>>> "host": "<vcenter ip>", >>>> "insecure": true, >>>> "datacenter": "ha-datacenter", >>>> "username": "[email protected]", >>>> "password": "<vc admin password>", >>>> "folder": "/Templates" >>>> } >>>> >>>> the folder should be from the root of your datacenter construct in >>>> vCenter. My "Templates" folder is directly underneath my datacenter as an >>>> example. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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