Puppet users - Sep 2012 - pe version of puppet, vmware provisioning with from template with guest customization

Hi All, 

I''m using puppet enterprise and am getting a feel for the vmware 
provisioning.  I''ve been able to provision vms by using:

 puppet node_vmware create NameOfMyTemplate 

That sort of works, but I basically have an identical copy of the original 
vm i created a template from. Same mac address, hostname, etc.   in 
vSphere, you can create a vm from a template and give it a guest 
customization file which will set the hostname, autogenerate the mac 
address as well as other things. I''d like to do this from puppet but
there
doesn''t appear to be an option to apply a customization file. 

If that''s not possible, maybe another approach is possible.  Basically
i
want to be able to autoprovision virtual machines.  With just creating from 
a clone, i can''t even get the vm on the network so it''s
basically
unreachable to apply any puppet scripts that would allow me to manage 
configurations.  

Thanks for any help, 

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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:36 PM, jimmy <james.miller110377@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I''m using puppet enterprise and am getting a feel for the vmware
> provisioning.  I''ve been able to provision vms by using:
>
>  puppet node_vmware create NameOfMyTemplate
>
> That sort of works, but I basically have an identical copy of the original
> vm i created a template from. Same mac address, hostname, etc.   in
> vSphere, you can create a vm from a template and give it a guest
> customization file which will set the hostname, autogenerate the mac
> address as well as other things. I''d like to do this from puppet
but there
> doesn''t appear to be an option to apply a customization file.
>
This question is probably better suited for the PE Users list [1].

I''m surprised the new vm is getting the same MAC address.  Cloning a
template should result in the new VM getting a new MAC address, and we
recommend using DHCP to get an address for the instance.  What version of
vSphere are you running?  This information might have something to do with
the difference in behavior.

[1]
https://groups.google.com/a/puppetlabs.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pe-users

-Jeff

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