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vsphere	Provider: VMware vSphere	docs-vsphere-index	The VMware vSphere provider is used to interact with the resources supported by VMware vSphere. The provider needs to be configured with the proper credentials before it can be used.

VMware vSphere Provider

The VMware vSphere provider is used to interact with the resources supported by VMware vSphere. The provider needs to be configured with the proper credentials before it can be used.

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.

~> NOTE: The VMware vSphere Provider currently represents initial support and therefore may undergo significant changes as the community improves it. This provider at this time only supports IPv4 addresses on virtual machines.

Example Usage

# Configure the VMware vSphere Provider
provider "vsphere" {
  user           = "${var.vsphere_user}"
  password       = "${var.vsphere_password}"
  vsphere_server = "${var.vsphere_server}"
}

# Create a folder
resource "vsphere_folder" "frontend" {
  path = "frontend"
}

# Create a virtual machine within the folder
resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "web" {
  name   = "terraform-web"
  folder = "${vsphere_folder.frontend.path}"
  vcpu   = 2
  memory = 4096

  network_interface {
    label = "VM Network"
  }

  disk {
    template = "centos-7"
  }
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are used to configure the VMware vSphere Provider:

• user - (Required) This is the username for vSphere API operations. Can also be specified with the VSPHERE_USER environment variable.
• password - (Required) This is the password for vSphere API operations. Can also be specified with the VSPHERE_PASSWORD environment variable.
• vsphere_server - (Required) This is the vCenter server name for vSphere API operations. Can also be specified with the VSPHERE_SERVER environment variable.
• allow_unverified_ssl - (Optional) Boolean that can be set to true to disable SSL certificate verification. This should be used with care as it could allow an attacker to intercept your auth token. If omitted, default value is false. Can also be specified with the VSPHERE_ALLOW_UNVERIFIED_SSL environment variable.

Acceptance Tests

The VMware vSphere provider's acceptance tests require the above provider configuration fields to be set using the documented environment variables.

In addition, the following environment variables are used in tests, and must be set to valid values for your VMware vSphere environment:

• VSPHERE_NETWORK_GATEWAY
• VSPHERE_NETWORK_IP_ADDRESS
• VSPHERE_NETWORK_LABEL
• VSPHERE_NETWORK_LABEL_DHCP
• VSPHERE_TEMPLATE

The following environment variables depend on your vSphere environment:

• VSPHERE_DATACENTER
• VSPHERE_CLUSTER
• VSPHERE_RESOURCE_POOL
• VSPHERE_DATASTORE

The following additional environment variables are needed for running the "Mount ISO as CDROM media" acceptance tests.

• VSPHERE_CDROM_DATASTORE
• VSPHERE_CDROM_PATH

These are used to set and verify attributes on the vsphere_virtual_machine resource in tests.

Once all these variables are in place, the tests can be run like this:

make testacc TEST=./builtin/providers/vsphere