vmware_guest : remove_vm does not remove associated resources

[Poil]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_guest

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.4

SUMMARY

Calling state: absent does not remove associated files (vmdk ...)

It seems that ansible call vm.Destroy but it should call vm.Destroy_Task (ref. : https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/converter-sdk/conv55_apireference/vim.ManagedEntity.html#destroy , example : https://code.vmware.com/samples/563/destroy-vm?h=vSphere%20Management#)

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• lib/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py

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[Akasurde]

@Poil Thanks for reporting this issue.

Could you please elaborate more on which file are not removed after absent is called ? In my local environment, I able to remove every file associated with given VM.

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[Poil]

Hi,

Here it does not remove the VMDK files and other attached files, like if ansible only does a remove from inventory and not a delete from disk action.

We have a VCenter 5.5.
We also manage our VM via PyVmomi, and when we delete our VMs with Destroy_Task we don't have this problem.

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[Poil]

It seems we have no more problem with Ansible 2.5

[Bareliah]

HI @Poil,
can you please post how you wrote it? I'm using ansible 2.7 and still facing this problem with vmware_guest - it's succeed remove from inventory but not delete from disk