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vSphere Post-Processor

Type: vsphere

The Packer vSphere post-processor takes an artifact from the VMware builder and uploads it to a vSphere endpoint.

Configuration

There are many configuration options available for the post-processor. They are segmented below into two categories: required and optional parameters. Within each category, the available configuration keys are alphabetized.

Required:

• cluster (string) - The cluster to upload the VM to.

• datacenter (string) - The name of the datacenter within vSphere to add the VM to.

• datastore (string) - The name of the datastore to store this VM. This is not required if resource_pool is specified.

• host (string) - The vSphere host that will be contacted to perform the VM upload.

• password (string) - Password to use to authenticate to the vSphere endpoint.

• username (string) - The username to use to authenticate to the vSphere endpoint.

• vm_name (string) - The name of the VM once it is uploaded.

Optional:

• disk_mode (string) - Target disk format. See ovftool manual for available options. By default, "thick" will be used.

• insecure (boolean) - Whether or not the connection to vSphere can be done over an insecure connection. By default this is false.

• resource_pool (string) - The resource pool to upload the VM to.

• vm_folder (string) - The folder within the datastore to store the VM.

• vm_network (string) - The name of the VM network this VM will be added to.

• overwrite (boolean) - If it's true force the system to overwrite the existing files instead create new ones. Default is false

• options (array of strings) - Custom options to add in ovftool. See ovftool --help to list all the options