vmware_deploy_ovf: The virtual machine is not supported on the target datastore

[Tomorrow9]

SUMMARY

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_deploy_ovf

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.10.0
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.6.5 (default, Apr  1 2018, 05:46:30) [GCC 7.3.0]

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

(1) one datacenter in VC,
(2) two hosts added in this datacenter, no cluster,
(3) "datastore2" is the datastore of host1, "datastore2 (1)" is the datastore of host2, "test-ds" is the shared datastore of these two hosts,
(4) deploy ovf template in "datastore2" and "test-ds" succeed, deploy ovf template in "datastore2 (1)" failed.

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: Deploy VM from ovf template
      vmware_deploy_ovf:
        hostname: "xx.xx.xx.xx"
        username: "[email protected]"
        password: "xxxxxx"
        validate_certs: "False"
        datacenter: "vcDC"
        datastore: "datastore2 (1)"
        networks: "{{ ovf_networks | default({'VM Network': 'VM Network'}) }}"
        ovf: "./openwrt_19.07.2_x86.ova"
        name: test_ovf_deploy
        allow_duplicates: False
        disk_provisioning: "thin"
        power_on: False
        wait_for_ip_address: False
      register: ovf_deploy
    - debug: var=ovf_deploy

EXPECTED RESULTS

OVF can be deployed successfully

ACTUAL RESULTS

PLAY [localhost] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Deploy VM from ovf template] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failure validating OVF import spec: The virtual machine is not supported on the target datastore."}

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0 

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[Tomorrow9]

I assume if add "esxi_hostname" to specify the exact ESXi host can resolve this issue in this scenario?

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported parameters for (vmware_deploy_ovf) module: esxi_hostname 

Supported parameters include: allow_duplicates, cluster, datacenter, datastore, deployment_option, disk_provisioning, fail_on_spec_warnings, folder, hostname, inject_ovf_env, name, networks, ovf, password, port, power_on, properties, proxy_host, proxy_port, resource_pool, username, validate_certs, wait, wait_for_ip_address"}

[Tomorrow9]

Like what defined in vmware_guest module:

  cluster:
    description:
    - The cluster name where the virtual machine will run.
    - This is a required parameter, if C(esxi_hostname) is not set.
    - C(esxi_hostname) and C(cluster) are mutually exclusive parameters.
    - This parameter is case sensitive.
    type: str
  esxi_hostname:
    description:
    - The ESXi hostname where the virtual machine will run.
    - This is a required parameter, if C(cluster) is not set.
    - C(esxi_hostname) and C(cluster) are mutually exclusive parameters.
    - This parameter is case sensitive.
    type: str

[sky-joker]

resolved_by_pr #687