RbVmomi::Fault: machine[testevm] (vsphere::provision line 56) had an error: RbVmomi::Fault: InvalidArgument: A specified parameter was not correct.

[cmesquita]

Hi All,

Does anyone know What can kind of problem could be the following ? It´been happing intermittently , It always happen at the second time I tried to provision a new VM template based.

RbVmomi::Fault

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InvalidArgument: A specified parameter was not correct.
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The recipe being used:

ENV['http_proxy'] = 'http://172.22.8.18:3128'

with_chef_server "https://palencia/organizations/ACME",
:client_name => Chef::Config[:node_name],
:signing_key_filename => Chef::Config[:client_key],
:machine => 'testevm'

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

require 'chef/provisioning/vsphere_driver'

with_vsphere_driver host: '172.22.10.112',
  insecure: true,
  user:     'ilegra_fribeiro@ACME',
  password: '@ACME123'

machine_options = {
:bootstrap_options => {
:start_timeout => 60,
:create_timeout => 60,
:name =>    'testevm',
    :num_cpus =>        '2',
    :memory_mb =>       '4096',
:datacenter =>      'ALPHAVILLE',
:resource_pool =>   'CORP-DEVOPS',
    :datastore =>          'VNX-DT-07',
    :template_name =>      'Template_sql2003_devops',
    :customization_spec => {
      :ipsettings => {
        :ip => '172.22.14.12',
        :subnetMask => '255.255.255.0',
        :gateway => ['172.22.14.1'],
        :dnsServerList => ['8.8.8.8','8.8.4.4'] 
      },
      :domain => 'local',
      :domainAdmin => 'Administrator',
      :domainAdminPassword => '@ACME123',
      :org_name => 'ACME',
      :product_id => 'MT3V3-HVKB8-GKYJJ-YVVJJ-922M6',
      :win_time_zone => 4
    },
    :ssh => {
      :user => 'Administrator',
      :password => '@ACME123',
      :paranoid => false
    },
    :convergence_options => {
     :ssl_verify_mode => :verify_none
    }
  }
}

machine 'testevm' do
    machine_options machine_options
    action :ready
    retries 0
    retry_delay 6
end

thanks in advance

Cesar

[swalberg]

Hi Cesar,

I think you're looking for this gem. This gem, knife-vsphere, is similarly named but only works for ad-hoc commands.

[cmesquita]

Hi swalberg,

Thanks for your reply. I just raised an issue in the following link

CenturyLinkCloud/chef-provisioning-vsphere#80