vSphere vm_clone a template to another datacenter/resource pool

[snobear]

Is it possible to clone a template to a VM in another datacenter? I have a vm template that exists in datacenter "Foo" and I'd like to deploy a VM from that template to datacenter "Bar". I'm able to clone to datacenter "Foo", presumably because its the same datacenter where the template resides.

From reading the docs, it seems like resource_pool is the option to use for specifying the destination? Here's what I'm trying:

connection = Fog::Compute.new(credentials)

options = {"wait"=>true,
 "numCPUs"=>1,
 "memoryGB"=>1,
 "datacenter"=>"Foo",
 "datastore"=>"VM NFS Mount",
 "network_label"=>"172.10.16.x",
 "resource_pool"=>["Bar", "Bar Cluster"],
 "template_path"=>"centos_6_4",
 "power_on"=>true,
 "customization_spec"=>
  {"domain"=>"example.com",
   "hostname"=>"test01",
   "ipsettings"=>
    {"gateway"=>["172.10.16.1"],
     "ip"=>"172.10.31.2",
     "subnetMask"=>"255.255.240.0"}},
 "name"=>"Test01"}

This results in:

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fog-1.15.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/get_resource_pool.rb:16:in `get_raw_resource_pool': undefined method `resourcePool' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fog-1.15.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/vm_clone.rb:97:in `vm_clone'
        from ./deploy.rb:148

Leaving off the resource_pool option, it clones successfully to the same datacenter, so as I said no problem there.

I'm sure that Bar and Bar Cluster exist, to I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Let me know if I can grab some debug info.

Great work on fog and thanks for the help.

[geemus]

@MarcGrimme - could you take a look? Thanks!

[MarcGrimme]

From the documentation I read the following:

 Only works with clusters within the same datacenter as where you're cloning from. Datacenter grabbed from template_path option.

Looks like it doesn't work over datacenters.
See https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/vm_clone.rb#L51

I don't know if it would be possible to use VSphere API to clone from one DC to another (might have some difficult requirements). I could check if this is possible anyways.

Hope that helps
Marc.

[snobear]

Hi @MarcGrimme thanks for the info. In the vSphere web GUI, it's pretty trivial to clone a template to a VM in any cluster, regardless of DC, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't straightforward in the API, but you never know :).

I think the datacenter option in vm_clone is used for specifying the path to the template as well as the destination...

https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/vm_clone.rb#L97

...so it could just be a matter of specifying a destination datacenter separately. I'll spend some time looking into it and will report back.

[plribeiro3000]

I'm closing this due inactivity.

@snobear Please comment here if you have more feedback about it.

[geemus]

Thanks!

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Paulo Henrique Lopes Ribeiro <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

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[synthead]

+1

This would be a great feature to have!