Unable to deploy VM, ESX hosts in maintenance

[fkempers]

SUMMARY

VMs are being deployed on a datastore that is on a host in maintenance.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware-guest

ANSIBLE VERSION

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.8.4
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [u'/home/username/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.5 (default, Jun 11 2019, 14:33:56) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)]

CONFIGURATION

$ ansible-config dump --only-changed
ANSIBLE_NOCOWS(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = True
DEFAULT_FORKS(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 30
DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = [u'/admin/etc/ansible/inventory']
DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = /home/aa101825/.ansible_local/ansible-local-889UrQv3D
DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = root
DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = /admin/var/.adm/.vlt
TRANSFORM_INVALID_GROUP_CHARS(/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg) = true

OS / ENVIRONMENT

RHEL 7.7, ESX 6.7

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1 Datacenter
2 clusters, all nodes have their own datastore.

• 1st with 2active ESX-hosts
• 2nd with 3 hosts in maintenance (even datastores can be in maintenance)

EXPECTED RESULTS

I would expect a VM deplyed on a host in the 1st cluster

ACTUAL RESULTS

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
Pipelining is enabled.
EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python2 && sleep 0'
FAILED - RETRYING: Create VMs (1 retries left).Result was: {
"attempts": 3,
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"annotation": "Deployed by username in Ansible 2020-03-24-12-21-26",
"cdrom": {},
"cluster": "cluster-001",
"convert": null,
"customization": {
"dns_servers": [
"VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER"
],
"domain": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"hostname": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER"
},
"customization_spec": null,
"customvalues": [],
"datacenter": "HIT_DCOS_DCA",
"datastore": null,
"disk": [
{
"autoselect_datastore": true,
"size_mb": 500,
"type": "thick"
},
{
"autoselect_datastore": true,
"size_gb": 32,
"type": "thick"
},
{
"autoselect_datastore": true,
"size_gb": 72,
"type": "thick"
},
{
"autoselect_datastore": true,
"size_gb": 96,
"type": "thick"
}
],
"esxi_hostname": null,
"folder": "DCOS-PROD3T-01",
"force": false,
"guest_id": null,
"hardware": {
"memory_mb": 32768,
"num_cpus": 6
},
"hostname": "vc103",
"is_template": false,
"linked_clone": false,
"name": "vm-name",
"name_match": "first",
"networks": [
{
"device_type": "vmxnet3",
"gateway": "gw",
"ip": "ip",
"name": "network",
"netmask": "255.255.224.0",
"type": "static"
}
],
"password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"port": 443,
"resource_pool": null,
"snapshot_src": null,
"state": "poweredon",
"state_change_timeout": 0,
"template": "Template_RHEL7x_x64_v1.2",
"use_instance_uuid": false,
"username": "username",
"uuid": null,
"validate_certs": false,
"vapp_properties": [],
"wait_for_customization": false,
"wait_for_ip_address": true
}
},
"retries": 4
}

MSG:

Failed to create a virtual machine : Unable to access the virtual machine configuration: Unable to access file [Datastore_1_esx002]

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[Akasurde]

Issue migrated to ansible-collections/community.vmware#63