Automating VMware migrations

[Mario Zamora]

Hello, 

I have a playbook that I'm working on to migrate VMs to a new ESX host. I finally got 1 maybe 2 parts working where I can power-off the machine and power-on again. Here's where the maybe comes into play. 

When I run the playbook I can see the VM power-off and immediately power-on again, but let's say if I were to cut out the power-on task and put it back in there it can't detect the VM. 

I thought something like this would happen because how can ansible re-connect to a powered down host? By the way this is my first time using a tool like ansible and most of this playbook wasn't running at all... lot's of errors and mistakes. Haha

---

- name: Virtual Machine Migration Playbook

hosts: vmserver

vars:

VMWARE_PASSWORD: credentials

VMWARE_USER: credentials

VMWARE_HOST: credentials

VMWARE_VCENTER: credentials

remote_user: root

gather_facts: true

tasks:

- name: Test connectivity

ping:

- name: Wait for the virtual machine to shutdown

vmware_guest_powerstate:

hostname: "{{ VMWARE_VCENTER }}"

user: "{{ VMWARE_USER }}"

password: "{{ VMWARE_PASSWORD }}"

name: "{{ VMWARE_HOST }}"

state: powered-off

state_change_timeout: 200

validate_certs: no

delegate_to: localhost

register: deploy

- name: Wait for the virtual machine to poweron

vmware_guest_powerstate:

hostname: "{{ VMWARE_VCENTER }}"

user: "{{ VMWARE_USER }}"

password: "{{ VMWARE_PASSWORD }}"

name: "{{ VMWARE_HOST }}"

state: powered-on

state_change_timeout: 200

validate_certs: no

delegate_to: localhost

register: deploy