vvol

[anthonyglidic]

SUMMARY

Possibilty to deploy or storage vmotion to a vvol datastore

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_guest / vmware_guest_storage_policy / vmware.vmware_vmotion

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Today when i try to deploy a new vm on vvol volume it end up with this error: PBMFault: missing or empty replication spec information policy

So i have try to make it like this: deploy on standard datastore apply spbm storage vmotion but it end with the same error

• name: Create a virtual machine vmware_guest: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" cluster: "{{ vcenter_cluster }}" datastore: "{{ vcenter_datastore }}" validate_certs: no folder: "{{ '/' + app + '/' + env }}" name: "{{ vmname }}" state: poweredon template: "{{ os }}" annotation: "{{ description | default(omit) }}" hardware: memory_mb: "{{ ram|int * 1024 }}" num_cpus: "{{ cpu }}" num_cpu_cores_per_socket: "{{ (cpu|int / 2)|int }}" hotadd_memory: yes networks:

  • name: "{{ network }}" type: static ip: "{{ ip }}" netmask: "{{ netmask }}" gateway: "{{ gateway }}" start_connected: yes dvswitch_name: "{{ dvswitch_name }}" customization: dns_servers:
    • "{{ dns_server_1 }}"
    • "{{ dns_server_2 }}" domain: "{{ domain_name }}" hostname: "{{ vmname }}" timezone: 110 autologon: yes autologoncount: 1 domainadmin: "{{ ad_service_account }}" domainadminpassword: "{{ ad_service_account_password }}" joindomain: "{{ domain_name }}" orgname: "{{ org_name }}" password: "{{ windows_local_password }}" runonce:
    • powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File C:\Windows\Temp\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 -ForceNewSSLCert -EnableCredSSP -DisableBasicAuth
    • powershell.exe -command "Restart-Computer" -Force wait_for_customization: yes register: createvm_result

• name: Apply spbm to home folder community.vmware.vmware_guest_storage_policy: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: no name: "{{ vmname }}" vm_home: "{{ spbm }}" when: spbm is defined and spbm != '' delegate_to: localhost

• name: Apply spbm to disk community.vmware.vmware_guest_storage_policy: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: no name: "{{ vmname }}" disk:

  • unit_number: 0 policy: "{{ spbm }}" when: spbm is defined and spbm != '' delegate_to: localhost

• name: Retrieve running host community.vmware.vmware_guest_info: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" name: "{{ vmname }}" register: vminfo

• name: migrate to vvol community.vmware.vmware_vmotion: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: no vm_name: "{{ vmname }}" destination_datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" destination_datastore: "{{ vvol_datastore }}" destination_host: "{{ vminfo.instance.hw_esxi_host }}" when: spbm is defined and spbm != '' delegate_to: localhost

[anthonyglidic]

on this blog post we can see that we have to set both the storage policy but also the replication group

https://www.codyhosterman.com/2018/04/powercli-and-vvols-part-i-assigning-a-spbm-policy/

i think that the module vmware_guest_storage_policy is missing this replication group part

regards