How to create multiple Windows servers using chef-provisioning-vsphere

[bhaliti]

Hi,

Seems like my other issue has been closed without my questions being answered.

All I want to know IS IT POSSIBLE TO BUILD MULTIPLE WINDOWS SERVERS USING CHEF-PROVISIONING-VSPHERE???

how do I modify this example you've provided to customize IPs on all the servers and join them to the domain. I want to be able to build let's say 10 servers with custom IP, name, and domain etc

with_machine_options :bootstrap_options => {
use_linked_clone: true,
num_cpus: 2,
memory_mb: 4096,
network_name: ['vlan_20_172.21.20'],
datacenter: 'datacenter_name',
resource_pool: 'cluster',
template_name: 'path to template',
customization_spec: {
ipsettings: {
dnsServerList: ['1.2.3.31','1.2.3.41']
},
domain: 'blah.com',
domainAdmin: '[email protected]',
domainAdminPassword: 'Passwordyoyoyo',
org_name: 'acme',
product_id: 'CDAA-87DC-3455-FF77-2AAC',
win_time_zone: 4
}
ssh: {
user: 'administrator',
password: 'password',
paranoid: false,
}
},
:convergence_options => {
:ssl_verify_mode => :verify_none
}

How do I modify above recipe to accomplish that???? is it even possible???

thanks

[bhaliti]

anything?

[bradwilliamson]

You need to use machine_batch when creating more than one machine. There are a lot of gotchas if you have machines that need to have different IP addresses, different port groups. Here is a generic example of something you might work off of. I might have a couple errors in here and don't currently have access to vCenter to test this. Hope it helps.

chef_gem 'chef-provisioning-vsphere' do
action :install
compile_time true
end

require 'chef/provisioning/vsphere_driver'

with_vsphere_driver host: '127.0.0.1',
insecure: true,
user: 'boomer',
password: 'sooner'

#Williamson 12-15-15 Big Hash value shared between machines
shared_options = {
:bootstrap_options => {
use_linked_clone: false,
network_name: ['vlan_20_172.21.20'],
datacenter: 'devops',
datastore: 'superfast',
resource_pool: 'devops_Production_Cluster_01',
vm_folder: 'Organizational Units/DEVOPS',
template_name: 'flark',
customization_spec: {
ipsettings: {
gateway: ["10.100.1.1"],
subnetMask: '255.255.255.0',
dnsServerList: ['10.100.1.20'],

},
domain: 'blah.com',
domainAdmin: '[email protected]',
domainAdminPassword: 'Passwordyoyoyo',
org_name: 'acme',
product_id: 'CDAA-87DC-3455-FF77-2AAC',
win_time_zone: 4
},
:ssh => {
:user => 'administrator',
:password => 'password',
:paranoid => false,
},

:convergence_options => {
:ssl_verify_mode => :verify_none
}
}
}

machine_batch do
custom_options = shared_options.dup
1.upto(10) do |i|
#Count from 10.100.90.21 to 30
custom_options[:customization_spec][:ipsettings][:ip]="10.100.90.2#{i}"
machines %w(Web1 DC1 SQL1 DC2 Web50 ChefWS1 ChefWS05 Gold Silver L1E5DVOP) do
machine_options custom_options
run_list ["recipe[chefrules::sqlmp4]"]
end
end

[bradwilliamson]

Did this work for you @bhaliti
Thanks,

[bhaliti]

I have not had the time to test this yet. I really appreciate it though. Thank you!
Will let you know