Prerequisites

• vagrant
• vagrant-vsphere plugin

How to use

Edit vagrant/infrastructure.in.yaml:

PROVISIONER

hyperv, vsphere, virtualbox

Note

name: some note

FOLDER

folder: create folder were VM will be created. It is connected with vsphere.in.rb base_path:

Nodes

hostname: "{VMname}" => set name for hostname
os: "ubuntu20.04" => select OS: debian10, ubuntuserver, ubuntu20.04, win2019, sql2019
mem: 2096 => set memory in MB
cpus: 2 => set CPU cores
ip: "{setIP}" => set IP for VM (not supported on vsphere)
switch: "{Default Switch}" => set virtual adapter for Hyper-V and Virtualbox

Edit vsphere.in.rb:

TPLS_PATH = "test/test => path to os templates

VSPHERE_NETWORK_CONFIG

:name: "{vlanName}", => enter VLAN name

VSPHERE_CREDENTIALS

win_username: "{win_user}" => enter windows username
win_password: "{win_pass}" => enter windows password
lnx_username: "{lnx_user}" => enter linux username
lnx_password: "{lnx_pass}" => enter linux password

VSPHERE_CONFIG

:host => "{hostIP}", => host IP or name 
:user => "{userName}", => enter you username
:pass => "{password}", => enter your password
:base_path => "{path}", => add path where VM should be created
:compute_resource_name => "{clusterName}", => enter resource name
:data_center_name => "{dataCenterName}", => enter datacenter name
:data_store_name => "{dataStoreName}", => enter data store name

templates.in.yaml

HyperV, Virtualbox

only for hyperv and virtualbox provider, values below are not being used when vsphere provider was chosen.

tpl: "gusztavvargadr/windows-server-standard"
tpl1: "gusztavvargadr/sql-server-developer-windows-server"
tpl2: "gusztavvargadr/ubuntu-server"
tpl3: "bento/ubuntu-20.04"
tpl4: "generic/debian10""

Provisioner

Vsphere

Those tempaltes should be created on vsphere

vagrant-centos
vagrant-ubuntu
vagrant-ubuntuserver
vagrant-debian
vagrant-win2008
vagrant-win2012
vagrant-win2016
vagrant-win2019

When you're ready

• When the file is ready just execute vagrant up --provider=[vsphere, hyperv, virtualbox] => choose one
• To destroy vagrant destroy
• To destroy faster or in case of problems vagrant destroy -f

HyperV works only on Windows

VirtualBox works on Windows, Linux and UNIX

On Linux

start VirtualBox:

• as root sudo virtualbox

or change owner of the following directories to localuser:

• sudo chown <localuser>:<localgroup> /path/to/repo/
• sudo chown <localuser>:<localgroup> $HOME/.vagrant.d