Trying to create vm's on a Dell VMware vxRails VSAN

Hopefully this is in the right place. For years we have been building systems with ansible vmware_guest module using an HP esx host and 3Par storage. In our code we send the names or the “host” and the name of the datastore . In Vcenter, the “datastore” is browseable for files and we can see any iso files or vmdk files we created. Life is good. Ansible works, etc.

We got a new Dell set up and it uses a different file storage arrangement. I am a bit abstracted from understanding all the differences, but you cannot “browse” the datastore. So when I go to spin up a system using our playbook, I get some errors that indicate I cannot write to the datastore.

For Dell VX Rails VSAN, do I need to use some other parameters in the module or is there another module I should be using?

Code below:

  • name: Deploy a VM without a CD-ROM from scratch
    vmware_guest:
    hostname: “{{ vcenter_hostname }}”
    username: “{{ vcenter_username }}”
    password: “{{ vcenter_password }}”
    datacenter: “{{ vcenter_dc }}”
    cluster: “{{ vcenter_cluster }}”
    datastore: “{{ guest_datastore }}”
    folder: “{{ guest_folder }}”
    name: “{{ guest_name }}”
    guest_id: “{{ guest_id | default(‘rhel8_64Guest’) }}”
    annotation: “{{ guest_note }}”
    template: “{{ guest_template_name | default(omit) }}”
    hardware:
    boot_firmware: efi
    secure_boot: true
    version: 15
    num_cpus: “{{ vm_num_cpus | default(‘4’) }}”
    num_cpu_cores_per_socket: “{{ vm_num_cpu_cores_per_socket | default(‘2’) }}”
    memory_mb: “{{ vm_memory_mb | default(‘16384’) }}”
    networks:
    - connected: true
    start_connected: true
    device_type: vmxnet3
    name: “{{ vm_network_name.stdout }}”