Using Terraform to Deploy the VMware Nested ESXi Appliance

With the addition of OVF/OVA customized properties in Terraform, I figured I would put together a few runbooks for appliances to deploy. This post will cover the details deploy the Nested ESXi Appliance.

Pre-Requsites

• Terraform
• Nested ESXi Appliance

Link to Code

• Github Repository

Execute the Runbook

• The script is pretty straight forward, you will need to download the Appliance OVA to a local directory and fill in the appropriate variables on the configuration file. Terraform also supports a Remote OVF, but due to performance reasons I have find local to work better.

Conclusion

Im loving all the new pieces of automation that are coming out to help simplify deployments.

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See Also

• Using Terraform to Deploy the VMware Event Broker Appliance
• Using Terraform to Deploy the Site Recovery Manager 8.3 Appliance
• Unable to Provision a vVol Hard Disk on a VM Located on VMFS Datastore
• Considerations for vSphere Component Backup and Restore: Part 2
• Considerations for vSphere Component Backup and Restore: Part 1