carlcapozza / vsphere-lab-deploy

Ansible playbook to automate deployment of vCenter and nested ESXi hosts

vsphere-nsx-lab-deploy

Ansible playbook to automate deployment of vCenter, nested ESXi hosts

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Setup - The basics of getting started with nsxt
   • Dependencies
   • [Edit answersfile.yml](#Edit answersfile.yml)
3. Usage
4. [Limitations)
5. Development

Description

This repository will be used to hold an Ansible Playbook to deploy and configure vCenter and nested ESXi VMs

Setup

Validated on Ubuntu 14 deploying vSphere 6.0 and vSphere 6.5

Dependencies

apt-get install sshpass python-pip git
pip install vim
pip install pyvmomi
git clone https://github.com/yasensim/vsphere-nsx-lab-deploy.git

Place the ESXi and VCSA ISOs in /root/ISOs

Edit answersfile.yml

Edit answersfile.yml according to your infrastructure!

Usage

ansible-playbook deploy.yml

Limitations

Ansible => 2.2 is required
ESXi version 6.0 and above is supported
VCSA version 6.0U2 and above is supported

Development

TODO: External PSC for vSphere 6.5 VMware internal