vSphere ESXi 8.0 System Host ID

amitmvyas — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:37:48 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to deploy VM thru Terraform using code given in the post on Standalone ESXi server and I am getting error while running terraform -apply command.

Error: while extracting OVF parameters: could not find host with ID "host-10": ServerFaultCode: The object 'vim.HostSystem:host-10' has already been deleted or has not been completely created

I tried giving host_system_id parameter randomly but it didn't help. I also looked at the logs /var/log/fdm.log file but it was empty and couldn't be help.

I would like to know from where I can get the host_system_id which is required to deploy VM using OVF option to standalone ESXi host.

terraform {

required_providers {

vsphere = {

source = "hashicorp/vsphere"

version = "2.4.3"

}

provider "vsphere" {

user = ${var.exsi_user}

password = ${var.esxi_passwd}

vsphere_server = ${var.esxi_server}

allow_unverified_ssl = true

}

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "amitv-test-vm" {

name = "AmitV-Test-Vm-01"

datastore_id = "/vmfs/volumes/NFS_Storage" # data.vsphere_datastore.datastore.id

host_system_id = "host-10"

resource_pool_id = "ha-root-pool"

wait_for_guest_net_timeout = 0

wait_for_guest_ip_timeout = 0

ovf_deploy {

allow_unverified_ssl_cert = true

local_ovf_path = "/Users/amitvyas/Downloads/AmitV-Test-VM.ovf"

disk_provisioning = "thin"

ip_protocol = "IPV4"

ip_allocation_policy = "STATIC_MANUAL"

ovf_network_map = {

"Network 1" = "VM Network"

"Network 2" = "PG_Storage_VM"

}

vapp {

properties = {

"guestinfo.hostname" = "amitv-test-vm",

"guestinfo.ipaddress" = "10.0.1.199",

"guestinfo.netmask" = "255.255.255.0",

"guestinfo.gateway" = "10.0.1.1",

"guestinfo.dns" = "10.0.1.1",

"guestinfo.domain" = "example.com",

"guestinfo.ntp" = "ntp.example.com",

"guestinfo.password" = "VMware1!",

"guestinfo.ssh" = "True"

}

Regards,

Amit Vyas

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