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I am attempting to work with Vagrant and the vagrant-vsphere plugin to deploy machines to my VMware ESXi server. Has anyone had any luck in getting this to work? I realize that vagrant-vsphere is still 0.0.1 though and there are bound to be bugs.

Specifially, Vagrant and vagrant-vsphere appear to fail during the vsphere connection, however, SSH and CLI access is enabled and the vSphere powershell is able to connect without an issue.

INFO warden: Calling action: #
ERROR warden: Error occurred: VagrantPlugins::VSphere::Errors::VSphereError

The hostd log file on the ESXi server shows the Vagrant doing an SearchIndex query.

Adam
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It's available with a plugin.

List of plugins for Vagrant are there: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/wiki/Available-Vagrant-Plugins

And there, it's the plugin for vagrant with vsphere as a provider: https://github.com/nsidc/vagrant-vsphere/ . It's support the last to date version of Vagrant 1.6.3 .

Djidiouf
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  • Late to the game, but I think OP was asking about ESXi specifically. Does this work directly against an ESXi server or do you need VSphere? I'm trying to to create and configure servers for a lab environment on the cheap and would like to use vagrant to target a server running the free ESXi hypervisor in my network. – emhohensee Oct 08 '16 at 23:10
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    Just found my answer at this link: http://blog.broez.com/vagrant-vsphere-centos-7/ vagrant-vsphere does NOT work with just ESXi. The remote management functionality is in VSphere. – emhohensee Oct 08 '16 at 23:13
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The Vagrant-vSphere plugin doesn't work with ESXi directly. Specifically, you need to use the vagrant-vmware-esxi plugin. A requirement is ovftool from vmware and ssh access (which looks like you've done already). 

https://github.com/josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi
Jonathan
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