Month: April 2021

Ensure that you have set up sphere provider provider, refer my previous blog https://blog.ntitta.in/?p=597

create a windows profile

/etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/w16k.conf 

root@saltyub:/# cat /etc/salt/cloud.profiles.d/w16k.conf 
w16k:
  provider: vcsa
  clonefrom: w16k_salt 
#  devices: 
#   network: 
#    Network adaptor 1:
#     name: VM Network
#     adapter_type: vmxnet3
#     switch_type: standard
#     ip: 172.16.70.79
#     gateway: [172.16.1.1]
#     subnet_mask: 255.255.128.0
#     domain: ntitta.lab
  cluster: vSAN
  datastore: vsanDatastore
  power_on: True
  deploy: True
  customization: True
  minion:
   master: saltyu.ntitta.lab
  win_username: administrator 
  win_password: 'P@ssw0d'
  plain_text: True
  win_user_fullname: admin
  win_run_once: 'powershell.exe c:\scripts\e.winrm.ps1'
  win_installer: /salt/minion/Salt-Minion-3000.9-Py2-AMD64-Setup.exe
  winrm_verify_ssl: False

Ensure that you have the smbprotocol and pypsexec installed

pip3 install smbprotocol
pip3 install pypsexec

on the guest windows server template, ensure vmware tools is installed and create a PowerShell script in the path: c:\scripts\e.winrm.ps1, refer salt doc for more information: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/cloud/windows.html

New-NetFirewallRule -Name "SMB445" -DisplayName "SMB445" -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 445
New-NetFirewallRule -Name "WINRM5986" -DisplayName "WINRM5986" -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 5986

winrm quickconfig -q
winrm set winrm/config/winrs '@{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="300"}'
winrm set winrm/config '@{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"}'
winrm set winrm/config/service/auth '@{Basic="true"}'

$SourceStoreScope = 'LocalMachine'
$SourceStorename = 'Remote Desktop'

$SourceStore = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Store -ArgumentList $SourceStorename, $SourceStoreScope
$SourceStore.Open([System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.OpenFlags]::ReadOnly)

$cert = $SourceStore.Certificates | Where-Object -FilterScript {
    $_.subject -like '*'
}

$DestStoreScope = 'LocalMachine'
$DestStoreName = 'My'

$DestStore = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Store -ArgumentList $DestStoreName, $DestStoreScope
$DestStore.Open([System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.OpenFlags]::ReadWrite)
$DestStore.Add($cert)

$SourceStore.Close()
$DestStore.Close()

winrm create winrm/config/listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS `@`{CertificateThumbprint=`"($cert.Thumbprint)`"`}

Restart-Service winrm

download salt windows minion installer to the below path on the salt-master:
/salt/minion/, exe can be downloaded from https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/topics/installation/windows.html

wget https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-3003-Py3-AMD64-Setup.exe

Deploy Windows VM via salt:

salt-cloud -p w16k w16k-salty-minion -l debug

Deployed VM you can see firewall and salt minion installed:

Troubleshooting:

[ERROR   ] Unable to execute command
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/salt/utils/cloud.py", line 1005, in wait_for_psexecsvc
    stdout, stderr, ret_code = run_psexec_command(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/salt/utils/cloud.py", line 956, in run_psexec_command
    client = Client(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/salt/utils/cloud.py", line 879, in __init__
    self._client = PsExecClient(server, username, password, port, encrypt)
NameError: name 'PsExecClient' is not defined

cause: PsExecClient module is not installed. , use pip3 to install this