Hi Folks,
I am the administrator of our virtual environment running VMware ESXI 6.
One of our departments is looking to leverage packer to build our RHEL
templates, and they are looking to use vsphere builder. We have tried to
use domain accts to no avail and I set up local accounts to no avail. We
are getting a connection to the ESXI HOST as I am seeing a connection being
made within the HOSTD.log file.
user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\PackerTest] Task Created :
haTask--vim.SessionManager.acquireGenericServiceTicket-2135324
2019-01-14T17:58:54.849Z info hostd[76950B70] [Originator@6876
sub=Vimsvc.TaskManager
opID=6580cec5-bd62-4c92-ac2a-63437f3fa18f-179845-ngc-14-5d-86b4
user=vpxuser:VSPHERE.LOCAL\PackerTest] Task Completed :
Beyond this nothing is created.
Below is the generic .JSON file that our application folks are utilizing.
"type": "vsphere-iso",
"vcenter_server": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"insecure_connection": "true",
"username": *[email protected] <[email protected]>*,
"password": "",
"cluster": "cluster",
"host": "ESXHOST1",
"datacenter": "USE1",
"vm_name": "RHEL7PackerTest",
"convert_to_template": "false",
"folder": "Templates",
"cpu": "1",
"ram": "2048",
"network": "admin",
"network_adapter": "VMXNET3",
"guest_os_type": "rhel7_64Guest",
"datastore": "TEMPLATES",
"disk_size": "20-GB",
"iso_datastore":"TEMPLATES",
"iso":"rhel-server-7.6-x86_64-dvd.iso"
Our Applications team wants us to enable SSH on the ESXI Hosts, but I see
it is not recommended, Also we are being asked to run the following
command.
esxcli system settings advanced set -o /Net/GuestIPHack -i 1
This allows Packer to infer the guest IP from ESXi, without the VM needing
to report it itself.
Since both groups are new to this process of using packer, I wanted to
check here for the best practice.
Thank you in advance.
KG
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