Importing not supported for vsphere_host_port_group and vsphere_host_virtual_switch

[warrn]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.7
+ provider.vsphere v1.4.0

Affected Resource(s)

• vsphere_host_port_group
• vsphere_host_virtual_switch

Important Factoids

Currently working towards onboarding a previously existing esxi cluster with terraform. What attracted me most to terraform was the ability to work in systems that previously existed without provisioning software, which is important for my use case.

I see that the addition of host_port_group and host_virtual_switch was added recently (Aug. 2017 if the pull request is correct #138 ), and importing was omitted while being said it would be added later. Has there been any work towards this? If not I'm possibly interested in implementing the functionality.

Thanks for any information that you can provide. So far I'm really enjoying working with this tool, so I hope I'm able to continue using it.

[warrn]

Any information on this?

[vancluever]

@warrn we are pretty busy with the push to 1.5.0 which will be fleshing out the rest of the cluster coverage for the provider (compute clusters/DRS/HA/overrides and specific cluster rules), so it will probably be a while before we have time here to work on this enhancement. If you have the time, by all means I'd love to review and merge a PR with this functionality!

With how the IDs are constructed for vsphere_host_port_group and vsphere_host_virtual_switch, you might be able to get away with ImportStatePassthrough. I'd give that a shot first as it would be the easiest way to get import in. Make sure when you are updating the documentation that you include instructions for fetching the appropriate MOIDs for hosts, similar to what we have for the datastore resources.

Thank you very much for being willing to take this on!

[hashibot]

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