Vm creation with ansible playbook

Infrastructure as Code Ansible
#1

People your support, i’m trying to create a VM with a playbook. I can create the VM all good there the issue is when I try to add a volume using LVM it fails all the time.

The playbook is:

- name: Create a physical volume on /dev/sdb
  lvg:
    vg: vg_data
    pvs: /dev/sdb
    state: present

and is returns:

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {
“changed”: false,
“err”: " Device /dev/sdb excluded by a filter.\n",
“invocation”: {
“module_args”: {
“force”: false,
“pesize”: “4”,
“pv_options”: “”,
“pvresize”: false,
“pvs”: [
“/dev/sdb”
],
“state”: “present”,
“vg”: “vg_data”,
“vg_options”: “”
}
},
“msg”: “Creating physical volume ‘/dev/sdb’ failed”,
“rc”: 5
}

I tried two flavors (CentOS and RockyLinux) and get the same error.

did someone face this?

#2

/dev/sdb probably has partitions on it. Use wipefs to clear it out:

wipefs -a /dev/sdb
#3

I already tried that and nothing.

If I run this playbook directly it create the partition if I try to run all in the same playbook it fails…

#4

What do you mean “create the partition”? And can you explain “run all in the same playbook”?

#5

this is my playbook:

  • name: RF vm creation test
    hosts: localhost
    gather_facts: no
    collections:

    • community.vmware

    vars_prompt:

    • name: “ansible_user”
      prompt: “Enter your vCenter username”
      private: no

    • name: “ansible_password”
      prompt: “Enter your vCenter password”
      private: yes

    tasks:

    • name: Create a new VM
      vmware_guest:
      hostname: “xxxx-xxx-xxxx-p01”
      username: “{{ ansible_user }}”
      password: “{{ ansible_password }}”
      validate_certs: no
      name: “RFtest”
      cluster: “ALL”
      datacenter: “xxxxxxx-PRD”
      folder: “/ALL”
      template: “Template_Rocky9-xxxxxxxxx-PRD”
      state: poweredon
      guest_id: “otherGuest64”
      disk:
      - size_gb: 20
      type: thin
      datastore: “xxxxxxxxxxx”
      - size_gb: 40
      type: thin
      datastore: “xxxxxxx”
      hardware:
      memory_mb: 1024
      num_cpus: 1
      scsi: paravirtual
      networks:
      - name: “VM Network”
      device_type: “vmxnet3”
      vlan: “xxxx_DC”
      ip: “10.xx.xx.52”
      netmask: “255.255.252.0”
      gateway: “10.xx.xx.253”
      dns_servers:
      - xxxxxxxx
      - xxxxxxxx
      wait_for_ip_address: yes
      customization:
      hostname: “RFtest”
      domain: “xxxxxxx.com”

    • name: Wait for the VM to be ready
      wait_for:
      timeout: 30

    • name: Create a physical volume on /dev/sdb
      command: pvcreate /dev/sdb
      become: yes

    • name: Create a volume group named vg_data
      command: vgcreate vg_data /dev/sdb
      become: yes

    • name: Create a logical volume named lv_data
      command: lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n lv_data vg_data
      become: yes

    • name: Format the logical volume with ext4 filesystem
      filesystem:
      fstype: ext4
      dev: /dev/vg_data/lv_data
      become: yes

    • name: Create mount point
      file:
      path: /opt/timwe
      state: directory
      owner: root
      group: root
      mode: ‘0755’
      become: yes

    • name: Mount the logical volume to /opt/timwe
      mount:
      path: /opt/timwe
      src: /dev/vg_data/lv_data
      fstype: ext4
      state: mounted
      become: yes

    • name: Ensure the logical volume is mounted on reboot
      mount:
      path: /opt/timwe
      src: /dev/vg_data/lv_data
      fstype: ext4
      opts: defaults
      state: present
      become: yes