vmware_guest spin up multiple VMs at once?

[Tuyen Nguyen]

Hi

Is it possible to spin up multiple vmware VMs at once with vmware_guest?  I found something about using with_items to loop it, but it sounds like it is going to loop it meaning it would spin up the VMs sequentially?  I haven't tested this out yet, but it seems like that is what it would do right?  What if I want to spin up 5 or 10 VMs at once, can that be done ?   Or should I just plan on running 5 or 10 separate ansible-playlist commands at once to deploy multiple VMs at once?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 05.12.2018 16:45, Tuyen Nguyen wrote:
> Is it possible to spin up multiple vmware VMs at once with
> vmware_guest? I
> found something about using with_items to loop it, but it sounds like
> it is
> going to loop it meaning it would spin up the VMs sequentially? I
> haven't
> tested this out yet, but it seems like that is what it would do right?

yes, with_items will run it sequentially unless you use async.

> What if I want to spin up 5 or 10 VMs at once, can that be done ? Or
> should I just plan on running 5 or 10 separate ansible-playlist
> commands at
> once to deploy multiple VMs at once?

If you specify the new host in a playbook and do delegate_to: localhost
on the create vm task they will run in parallel.
Default forks is at 5 so it will run 5 at a time unless you change forks
so a higher value.

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Kai Stian Olstad