Server to be joined to the Domain Post Provisioning.

[BhargaviAllada]

Versions:

• Version of knife-vsphere: 2.0.1
• Version of chef: 13.6.4

Platform Details

• Version of vSphere: Version 6.5.0.10000 Build 7119157
• Version of ESXi: 6.5.0

Scenario:

We have a requirement to join the VM to the Domain Post Provisioning. Kindly do let us know how can we achieve this through the commands.

Regards, Bhargavi.

[swalberg]

Hi Bhargavi, the way we do it is to set that part up in VCenter as a customization then pass --cspec customization_name on the command line.

There's a spot where you can enter a domain and then admin credentials, which keeps them on the vcenter server so you don't have to share them to anyone that needs to make a VM.

[BhargaviAllada]

Hi Sean,

So, what if in case we have multiple domains. As the values are fixed in the customization specifications, Do we need to create separate customization templates for each domain?

Thanks & Regards.

Bhargavi.A. [cid:[email protected]] Vnet: 572301 Email: [email protected]mailto:[email protected]

From: Sean Walberg [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 7:09 PM To: chef-partners/knife-vsphere [email protected] Cc: Allada, Bhargavi (Cognizant) [email protected]; Author [email protected] Subject: Re: [chef-partners/knife-vsphere] Server to be joined to the Domain Post Provisioning. (#446)

Hi Bhargavi, the way we do it is to set that part up in VCenter as a customization then pass --cspec customization_name on the command line.

There's a spot where you can enter a domain and then admin credentials, which keeps them on the vcenter server so you don't have to share them to anyone that needs to make a VM.

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[swalberg]

Yes, that's right.

https://github.com/chef-partners/knife-vsphere/wiki/Sample-plugin-to-do-unattended-Windows-installations has a sample plugin that has the bones of doing it on the command line if the cspec method doesn't work. We have a small handful of domains and it's not a huge deal to maintain separate cspecs. Just have to remember to update them when the credentials change!

[BhargaviAllada]

Hi Sean,

Is there any way to pass the values in the recipes Dynamically by chance? For example, I amtrying to invoke the powershell script through chef using “Powershell_Script” resource and it is working well and good. So if I need to pass any value in my script dynamically/runtime, How can we achieve that?

Please help me out with the solution if any.

Regards, Bhargavi A Sr. Infra Developer – Cognizant Infrastructure Services [cid:[email protected]]

From: Sean Walberg [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 8:16 PM To: chef-partners/knife-vsphere [email protected] Cc: Allada, Bhargavi (Cognizant) [email protected]; Author [email protected] Subject: Re: [chef-partners/knife-vsphere] Server to be joined to the Domain Post Provisioning. (#446)

Yes, that's right.

https://github.com/chef-partners/knife-vsphere/wiki/Sample-plugin-to-do-unattended-Windows-installations has a sample plugin that has the bones of doing it on the command line if the cspec method doesn't work. We have a small handful of domains and it's not a huge deal to maintain separate cspecs. Just have to remember to update them when the credentials change!

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