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frapposelli / packer-templates

Packer templates for boxes available at https://vagrantcloud.com/gosddc
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Added Packer template for vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 #1

Closed tehranian closed 7 years ago

tehranian commented 10 years ago

My Packer template & setup script for VMware vCenter Service Appliance (VCSA) 5.5. Works with Vagrant's VMware Fusion provider & GoSDDC's vagrant-vcenter provider. I'm planning on using this to automate the deployment of vCenter simulators.

There were a couple of "gotchas" as you can see in the setup script. The one gotcha not documented in the code itself is where to get VCSA from. VCSA comes as an OVA and one must use ovftool to convert that OVA into VMX format so that it can be fed into Packer's vmware-vmx builder. If there's a better way of doing this please let me know!

frapposelli commented 10 years ago

Thanks @tehranian, will merge in the next few days!