Hi Guys,
I was wondering if it's possible to get the Datastore name of a VMware
compute profile configuration from a kickstart provisioning template.
I would like to do something like that:
if host_provider = "VMware" and datastore_name = dev_tier_1
do something
Is it possible? If yes, is it possible to list the information about disk
size and controllers ?
Regards,
Fernando
Hi Fernando,
It would be possible, let's go step by step.
To match the compute resource you would do:
<% if @host.provider == "VMware" %>
# Your kickstart VMware specific code
<% end %>
Matching the datastore is going to be possible, but complicated. Also
you would have to disable safemode rendering in Settings. I'm not
entirely sure right now of the syntax, but you should check the content
of @host.compute_attributes, and you will find the name of the datastore
volume there. So in the end it would be something like
<% @host.compute_attributes['volumes'].find { |volume| volume['datastore'] == 'dev_tier_1' } %>
Again, that is likely not the exact syntax because I don't know the
exact contents of compute_attributes['volumes'] for VMware, but
hopefully it gets you in the right direction.
There's a template writing guide in the wiki [1] that could be helpful
to you.
Best of luck, let us know if you need more information!
Daniel Lobato Garcia
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Hi Daniel,
Thank you for your help! 
It worked very well with <%= @host.provider %>. In my case, I can see
VMWare.
But I'm stuck in the @host.compute_attributes.
I tried to print the available options as I do with @host.params and
@host.os.media, but it returns nothing.
Regards,
Fernando