VMware: Unable to create vSphere Cluster in idempotent manner

[kclinden]

SUMMARY

Playbook fails on create vSphere Cluster when running second time

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_cluster

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.9.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/klinden/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/klinden/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.15+ (default, Oct  7 2019, 17:39:04) [GCC 7.4.0]

CONFIGURATION

DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = [u'/home/klinden/hosts']

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Ubuntu on Windows 2019 WSL

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Run playbook a second time on an empty vCenter instance.

---
# Configure vCenter

- name: Configure vCenter
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local
  vars:
    vcenter_hostname: vcsa-01a.corp.local
    vcenter_username: 'administrator@regiona.local'
    vcenter_password: 'VMware1!'
    datacenter_name: 'OneCloud'
    cluster_name: 'Cluster-01'
    esxi_hostname: esx-01a.corp.local
    esxi_username: 'root'
    esxi_password: 'VMware1!'
    validate_certs: false
    state: present
  tasks:
    - name: Create Datacenter
      vmware_datacenter:
        hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
        username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
        password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
        datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
        validate_certs: '{{ validate_certs }}'
        state: present
    - name: Create Cluster
      vmware_cluster:
        hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
        username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
        password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
        validate_certs: '{{ validate_certs }}'
        datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
        cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }} '
        state: present
    - name: Add ESXi Host to vCenter
      vmware_host:
        hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
        username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
        password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
        validate_certs: '{{ validate_certs }}'
        datacenter: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
        cluster: '{{ cluster_name }} '
        esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}'
        esxi_username: '{{ esxi_username }}'
        esxi_password: '{{ esxi_password }}'
        state: present

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

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Files identified in the description:

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

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cc @Akasurde @Tomorrow9 @goneri @lparkes @pgbidkar @warthog9
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[ansibot]

@kclinden, just so you are aware we have a dedicated Working Group for vmware.
You can find other people interested in this in #ansible-vmware on Freenode IRC
For more information about communities, meetings and agendas see https://github.com/ansible/community

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[Akasurde]

@kclinden Thanks for reporting this issue. Could you please provide -vvvv output for cluster task for second run ?

Thanks

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[kclinden]

@kclinden Thanks for reporting this issue. Could you please provide -vvvv output for cluster task for second run ?

Thanks

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I will try to get more verbosity for you in the next week.

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[Akasurde]

@kclinden Any news?

[kclinden]

Unfortunately I haven’t had any time to dive back into this and have since started to focus on terraform instead.

[Akasurde]

Thank you very much for your interest in Ansible. This plugin/module is no longer maintained in this repository and has been migrated to https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware

Migrated this issue in the above repository - ansible-collections/community.vmware#335.

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