Merge pull request #6420 from eloycoto/master

Fix #3562 provider/vsphere Added doc for customizations problems.
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James Nugent 2016-04-29 12:59:50 -05:00
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@ -108,7 +108,24 @@ and [vSphere
5.5](https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.security.doc%2FGUID-18071E9A-EED1-4968-8D51-E0B4F526FDA3.html).
For additional information on roles and permissions, please refer to official
VMware documentation.
## Customizations
This provider use
[customizations](https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc_50/GUID-80F3F5B5-F795-45F1-B0FA-3709978113D5.html),
this resource is used to configure guest operation system (Domain, hostname,
etc..). The problem to work with this customizations are that only a certain OS
are accepted. The list of accepted OS are
[here](http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf)
If the system are not in the list of the Supported OS, terraform will create a
server but will fail with the following error
```
Customization of the guest operating system 'debian6_64Guest' is not supported in this configuration. Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware Tools versions. Refer to vCenter documentation for supported configurations.
```
## Acceptance Tests
The VMware vSphere provider's acceptance tests require the above provider