`r/virtual_machine`: Add support to deploy an OVF to a `datastore_cluster`

[prabu28]

Terraform Version

14.8

vSphere Provider Version

1.25

Affected Resource(s)

vsphere_virtual_machine.

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "LinuxDataMover" {

  name           = var.servername
  host_system_id = data.vsphere_host.host.id

  resource_pool_id = data.vsphere_compute_cluster.cluster.resource_pool_id

  datastore_id         = local.server["DSType"] == "datastore" ? data.vsphere_datastore.datastore[0].id : null
  datastore_cluster_id = local.server["DSType"] == "cluster" ?  data.vsphere_datastore_cluster.datastore_cluster[0].id : null


  num_cpus             = local.server["Cpu"] #1
  num_cores_per_socket = 16
  memory               = replace(local.server["Memory"], "/[^0-9]*/", "") * 1024 

  wait_for_guest_net_timeout = 0
  wait_for_guest_ip_timeout  = 10
  datacenter_id              = data.vsphere_datacenter.dc.id

  ovf_deploy {
    local_ovf_path   = "/daw_data_nas/Templates/Ova/sp4ve/sp4ve_Wmount03.ova"
    ovf_network_map = {
      "rz016mn011presentation1522": local.server["InODI"] ? data.external.network_id[0].result["network"] : data.vsphere_network.network[0].id
    }

  }

vapp {
    properties = {
      "hostname" = element(split(".", local.server["Servername"]),0),
      "ipAddress" = local.server["Ipaddress"],
      "netmask" = local.server["Netmask"],
      "gateway" = local.server["Gateway"],
      "dns" = lower(local.server["NetworkZoneCode"]) == "core" ? local.dns_servers_core[0] : local.dns_servers_dmz[0],
      # "dns2" = lower(local.server["NetworkZoneCode"]) == "core" ? local.dns_servers_core[1] : local.dns_servers_dmz[1],
      "ad_domain" = local.server["Domain"],
      "ad_username" = var.DOMAIN_USERNAME,
      "ad_password"= var.DOMAIN_PASSWORD,

    }
  }

}

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

ovf_deploy block funtion should work for both datastore and datastore cluster .
it is working only for datastore

Actual Behavior

Error: while extracting OVF parameters: data store ID is required for ovf deployment

Steps to Reproduce

Important Factoids

References

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[tenthirtyam]

I've run into the same issue. In https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/blob/04f9ec0827e12f3e1089e2ba6daa056c0fd62fb0/vsphere/data_source_vsphere_ovf_vm_template.go#L18 the only available option is datastore_id.

Recommend: type/enhancement

[sp-schoen]

Another important enhancement here would be to allow to use a storage_policy for deployment. For a regular VM (cloning, creating) this is already possible and also when deploying an OVF template via the vSphere UI this is an option.

[tenthirtyam]

Hi @sp-schoen 👋 -

Please open a separate enhancement request for the inclusion of the storage_policy option.

Ryan Johnson
Staff II Solutions Architect | VMware, Inc.