unable to run esxcli command with ansible

[Tony Wong]

i got below pb

- name: test

  hosts: all

  gather_facts: no

  vars_files:

    - vcenter_creds.yml

    - vars.yml

 

  tasks:

    - name: Enable SSH service

      vmware_host_service_manager:

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_sso_admin }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_sso_pass }}"

        esxi_hostname: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

        validate_certs: no

        state: present

        service_name: "TSM-SSH"

      delegate_to: localhost

 

    - name: Esxcli

      shell:

        cmd: "esxcli vm process list"

      delegate_to: localhost

      register: esxcli_output

 

    - name: Display esxcli output

      debug:

        var: esxcli_output.stdout_lines

but keep getting error: 

fatal: [xxxxxxxxx -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "esxcli", "delta": "0:00:00.009652", "end": "2023-06-01 10:49:02.878893", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 127, "start": "2023-06-01 10:49:02.869241", "stderr": "/bin/sh: esxcli: command not found", "stderr_lines": ["/bin/sh: esxcli: command not found"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Are you running from the ESXi server? if not then you need to delegate tasks to the ESXi server which has esxcli.

Please see https://medium.com/@AbhijeetKasurde/ansible-automating-esxcli-using-shell-module-6f691a551bca 

tl;dr -

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Start SSH service setting for an ESXi Host in given Cluster
    vmware_host_service_manager:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
      esxi_hostname: '{{ item }}'
      service_name: TSM-SSH
      state: present
    loop: "{{ groups['esxi'] }}"

- hosts: esxi
  tasks:
    - name: Get information about all the VMs
      shell: esxcli vm process list

and

[esxi]
foo.example.com ansible_ssh_user=root

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[Tony Wong]

my hosts file includes the esxi host

also i am able to run "df -h" without issues

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