goneri / vmware-on-libvirt

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Deploy ESXi+vsphere lab on libvirt

Description

This playbook will deploy:

• a local vsphere (in an ESXi)
• two ESXi
• a datastore VM (with a NFS)

A full deployment of the VCSA (VSphere) from the ISO takes =~ 25 minutes.

Requirements

• A Linux system. Tested on Fedora 30 and Ubuntu 18.04.
• Virt-Lightning (https://virt-lightning.org/) and libvirt
• ESXi QCOW2 image (https://github.com/virt-lightning/esxi-cloud-images)
• Ansible 2.8

First deployment

• Ensure nested KVM is enabled

  cat /etc/modprobe.d/kvm.conf
  options kvm_intel nested=1 enable_apicv=n
  options kvm ignore_msrs=1

• Install the roles: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml -p roles
• Download VMWare-VCSA ISO image and copy it in ~/Downloads/VMware-VCSA-all-6.7.0-14367737.iso
• Run run.sh. The full run takes around 1h, the VCSA (vcenter) deployment itself takes =~ 45m.

Outs

By default, the scrip will prepare 3 ESXi VM, it will also deploy a VCSA (vcenter) host in a nested VM on esxi-vcenter.

• esxi-vcenter
  • Memory: 12000MB
  • CPU: 2
  • Disk: 40GiB
• esxi1
  • Memory: 4096MB
  • CPU: 1
  • Disk: 10GiB
• esxi2
  • Memory: 4096MB
  • CPU: 1
  • Disk: 10GiB10
• vcenter
  • IP: 192.168.123.90

Warning

The playbook will modify your /etc/hosts to add the esxi and vcsa hosts.