# Re: Re: RE: Re: Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-anyone-using-the-knife-vsphere-knife-plugin/2729>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [April 4, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-anyone-using-the-knife-vsphere-knife-plugin/2729 "2012-04-04T17:32:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Van\_Fossan\_Randy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8797f3/32.png) [@Van\_Fossan\_Randy](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Van_Fossan_Randy)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-anyone-using-the-knife-vsphere-knife-plugin/2729/1 "2012-04-04T17:32:44Z")

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I will give it it another try. Also, since we have many virtual center servers with many data centers and many clusters; Having command line options for these would be ideal.

Thanks  
Randy

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From: “Jesse Campbell” [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com)  
To: "chef@lists.opscode.com" [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin ?  
Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 12:29 pm

Ian: Which options have you run into trouble with? The plugin needs a  
lot of testing, and it would be great to get more input on  
improvements necessary.

Randy: Have you had any progress getting your AD accounts to authenticate?  
I did some testing on my machine, I am unable to authenticate using  
domain\user, but I am able to authenticate with:  
domain\user  
user@domain  
user

-Jesse

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-anyone-using-the-knife-vsphere-knife-plugin/2729/2 "2012-04-04T17:53:27Z")

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Agreed. I'll add it to my list of things to fiddle with... i'd like it  
to be able to pick up all of the options from either command line or  
config file, where command line overrides config file.

-Jesse

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:32, Van Fossan,Randy [vanfossr@oclc.org](mailto:vanfossr@oclc.org) wrote:

> I will give it it another try. Also, since we have many virtual center servers with many data centers and many clusters; Having command line options for these would be ideal.
> 
> Thanks  
> Randy
> 
> ----- Reply message -----  
> From: "Jesse Campbell" [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com)  
> To: "[chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)" [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin ?  
> Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 12:29 pm
> 
> Ian: Which options have you run into trouble with? The plugin needs a  
> lot of testing, and it would be great to get more input on  
> improvements necessary.
> 
> Randy: Have you had any progress getting your AD accounts to authenticate?  
> I did some testing on my machine, I am unable to authenticate using  
> domain\user, but I am able to authenticate with:  
> domain\user  
> user@domain  
> user
> 
> -Jesse

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**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-anyone-using-the-knife-vsphere-knife-plugin/2729/3 "2012-04-04T18:19:22Z")

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Looks like you can specify -u (--user), -p (--password), -d  
(--datacenter) but not specify the vsphere host. I'll add that and  
submit a pull request in a few minutes.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:53, Jesse Campbell [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com) wrote:

> Agreed. I'll add it to my list of things to fiddle with... i'd like it  
> to be able to pick up all of the options from either command line or  
> config file, where command line overrides config file.
> 
> -Jesse
> 
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:32, Van Fossan,Randy [vanfossr@oclc.org](mailto:vanfossr@oclc.org) wrote:
> 
> > I will give it it another try. Also, since we have many virtual center servers with many data centers and many clusters; Having command line options for these would be ideal.
> > 
> > Thanks  
> > Randy
> > 
> > ----- Reply message -----  
> > From: "Jesse Campbell" [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com)  
> > To: "[chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)" [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> > Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin ?  
> > Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 12:29 pm
> > 
> > Ian: Which options have you run into trouble with? The plugin needs a  
> > lot of testing, and it would be great to get more input on  
> > improvements necessary.
> > 
> > Randy: Have you had any progress getting your AD accounts to authenticate?  
> > I did some testing on my machine, I am unable to authenticate using  
> > domain\user, but I am able to authenticate with:  
> > domain\user  
> > user@domain  
> > user
> > 
> > -Jesse

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/re-re-re-re-anyone-using-the-knife-vsphere-knife-plugin/2729/4 "2012-04-05T15:23:39Z")

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Changes submitted to my branch ([GitHub - jcam/knife-vsphere: VMware vSphere support for Opscode Knife](http://github.com/jcam/knife-vsphere)), and  
pull request submitted. You can grab my version from there, or wait  
for Ezra to have a chance to do the merge.  
It will now support reading almost all options from the command line  
or knife.rb config file.

For anyone that submits updates, defaults for now will need to be  
specified in the $defaults hash instead of as a parameter to the  
:option. I've posted to the chef-dev list hoping for a better way to  
support specifying options with defaults, config file, and/or on the  
command line, but have not yet heard back.  
-Jesse

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 14:19, Jesse Campbell [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com) wrote:

> Looks like you can specify -u (--user), -p (--password), -d  
> (--datacenter) but not specify the vsphere host. I'll add that and  
> submit a pull request in a few minutes.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:53, Jesse Campbell [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Agreed. I'll add it to my list of things to fiddle with... i'd like it  
> > to be able to pick up all of the options from either command line or  
> > config file, where command line overrides config file.
> > 
> > -Jesse
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 13:32, Van Fossan,Randy [vanfossr@oclc.org](mailto:vanfossr@oclc.org) wrote:
> > 
> > > I will give it it another try. Also, since we have many virtual center servers with many data centers and many clusters; Having command line options for these would be ideal.
> > > 
> > > Thanks  
> > > Randy
> > > 
> > > ----- Reply message -----  
> > > From: "Jesse Campbell" [hikeit@gmail.com](mailto:hikeit@gmail.com)  
> > > To: "[chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)" [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com)  
> > > Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: Anyone using the knife-vsphere knife plugin ?  
> > > Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 12:29 pm
> > > 
> > > Ian: Which options have you run into trouble with? The plugin needs a  
> > > lot of testing, and it would be great to get more input on  
> > > improvements necessary.
> > > 
> > > Randy: Have you had any progress getting your AD accounts to authenticate?  
> > > I did some testing on my machine, I am unable to authenticate using  
> > > domain\user, but I am able to authenticate with:  
> > > domain\user  
> > > user@domain  
> > > user
> > > 
> > > -Jesse