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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.
Example Usage
# Configure the VMware vSphere Provider
provider "vsphere" {
user = "${var.vsphere_user}"
password = "${var.vsphere_password}"
vcenter_server = "${var.vsphere_vcenter_server}"
}
# Create a virtual machine
resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "web" {
name = "terraform_web"
vcpu = 2
memory = 4096
network_interface {
label = "VM Network"
}
disk {
size = 1
iops = 500
}
}
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 theVSPHERE_USER
environment variable.password
- (Required) This is the password for vSphere API operations. Can also be specified with theVSPHERE_PASSWORD
environment variable.vcenter_server
- (Required) This is the vCenter server name for vSphere API operations. Can also be specified with theVSPHERE_VCENTER
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
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