/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/vcenter.conf
vcenter: {
host: "vcenter5.example"
port: "443"
user: "foo"
password: "password"
datacenter: "BAR"
}
Yields:
# puppet resource vsphere_vm
Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from vSphere when accessing vsphere_vm. The specific error was:
Unable to find datacenter named BAR as specified in VCENTER_DATACENTER
Also removing datacenter in the config yields:
Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from vSphere when accessing vsphere_vm. The specific error was:
Unable to find datacenter
debug output:
# puppet resource --debug vsphere_vm
Debug: Runtime environment: puppet_version=4.7.0, ruby_version=2.1.9, run_mode=user, default_encoding=UTF-8
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: Evicting cache entry for environment 'production'
Debug: Caching environment 'production' (ttl = 0 sec)
Debug: #<Puppet::Error: Unable to find datacenter named foo as specified in VCENTER_DATACENTER>
Debug: /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/lib/puppet_x/puppetlabs/vsphere.rb:39:in `datacenter_instance' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/lib/puppet/provider/vsphere_vm/rbvmomi.rb:27:in `block in instances' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:223:in `block in benchmark' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/2.1.0/benchmark.rb:294:in `realtime' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:222:in `benchmark' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/lib/puppet/provider/vsphere_vm/rbvmomi.rb:26:in `instances' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type.rb:1169:in `block in instances' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type.rb:1162:in `collect' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/type.rb:1162:in `instances' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/indirector/resource/ral.rb:24:in `search' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb:269:in `search' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application/resource.rb:221:in `find_or_save_resources' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application/resource.rb:136:in `main' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application.rb:352:in `run_command' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application.rb:344:in `block in run' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util.rb:540:in `exit_on_fail' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/application.rb:344:in `run' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:132:in `run' /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/util/command_line.rb:72:in `execute' /usr/local/bin/puppet:5:in `<main>'
Error: Could not run: Puppet detected a problem with the information returned from vSphere when accessing vsphere_vm. The specific error was:
Unable to find datacenter named BAR as specified in VCENTER_DATACENTER
gems in use:
]# /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem list --local
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
bigdecimal (1.2.4)
builder (3.2.3)
deep_merge (1.0.1)
facter (3.4.1)
hiera (3.2.1)
hocon (1.2.4, 0.9.3)
io-console (0.4.3)
json (2.0.3, 1.8.1)
mini_portile2 (2.1.0)
minitest (4.7.5)
net-ssh (2.9.2)
nokogiri (1.7.0.1)
psych (2.0.5)
puppet (4.7.0)
rake (10.1.0)
rbvmomi (1.9.4)
rdoc (4.1.0)
semantic_puppet (0.1.2)
stomp (1.3.3)
test-unit (2.1.9.0)
trollop (2.1.2)
Puppet is 4.7.0 via PE 2016.4.2 vSphere is 5.5 Update 2
There are around 20 datacenters visible to this user when logging in to the vsphere web console.