create multiple vlan port groups on 5 esxi servers

[Tony Wong]

i got following task to create mul;tiple vlan ports groups on a vswitch on 5 esxi hosts

task playbok is

---
- name: create_vss_vlan_PGs
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}'
    switch_name: '{{ vswitch_name }}'
    portgroup_name: '{{ portgroup_name }}'
    vlan_id: '{{ vlan_id }}'
  delegate_to: localhost

i have answer file like so

vcenter_hostname: "myvcenter.domain.com"
vcenter_username: "admini...@vsphere.local"
vcenter_password: "xxxxxxxx"

cluster_name: "cluster"

switch_name: "vSwitch0"

portgroup_name: "??????"

vlan_id: "?????"

my hosts file is

[esx]
esx1

esx2

esx3

esx4

esx5

[esx:vars]

any idea how i would create the portgroups with different vlan ids? which file would i put them in?

[Tony Wong]

any idea?

[Rodrigues]

The simplest way would be add the vlans and portgroup names as a list in vars

Then loop through them using with_items

Like this

vlans:

- portgroup_name: vlan 1

  vlan_id: 1

- portgroup_name: vlan 2

  vlan_id: 2

- portgroup_name: vlan 3

  vlan_id: 3

  

- name: create_vss_vlan_PGs
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}'
    switch_name: '{{ vswitch_name }}'

    portgroup_name: '{{ item.portgroup_name }}'
    vlan_id: '{{ item.vlan_id }}'
  delegate_to: localhost

  with_items: '{{ vlans }}'

[Tony Wong]

does the vlan Ids need to be in separate vars file? which file should they be in?

[Rodrigues]

Nope, you can put them directly in the playbook in the vars section. Similar to this: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html

[Tony Wong]

hi

Is it possible to override default failover NIC policy?

I need to have 2 active nics on each portgroup

[Rodrigues -]

Yeah sure can.

Check this out, the last example has what you're looking for

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_portgroup_module.html

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