Ansible-Vmware snapshot question

[Gerry Maddock]

Hello all, I have been using Ansible to manage snapshots for single specified vm's. Is there a way to have Ansible remove snapshots for all vm's in Vmware datacenter? If this is posssible, would you mind providing a play book example?

Below is an example where I remove a snapshot from a single vm:

- name: VM Remove Snapshot

  hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: false

  connection: local

  vars:

    vcenter_hostname: vspherefqdn

    vcenter_user: ansiblesusername

    vcenter_pass: changeme

    esxhost: 192,168.1.100

    datastore: LUN01

    name: "{{ vm_name }}"

    notes: Ansible Test

    dumpfacts: False

  tasks:

    - name: Remove all snapshots

      vmware_guest_snapshot:

        validate_certs: False

        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"

        datacenter: TST1

        name: "{{ name }}"

        folder: ''

        state: remove_all

      delegate_to: localhost

[Gerry Maddock]

I've tried first running vmware_vm_info to get all vm's and debug from that shows all vms allong with other info on the vm's. I would like to loop the "guest_name" into the above snapshot removal using with_item, but not having any luck so far. I may be going at this the wrong way. Any help is appreciated,

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Hi Gerry,

You may want to try this -  Replace variables as per your setup

---

- hosts: localhost

vars_files:

- vcsim_vars.yml

tasks:

- name: Gather all VMs information

vmware_vm_info:

hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

validate_certs: no

register: all_vm_info

delegate_to: localhost

- name: Get a list of all VMs

set_fact:

all_vm: "{{ all_vm_info.virtual_machines | json_query(query) }}"

vars:

query: "[*].guest_name"

- name: Delete all snapshot of all VMs

vmware_guest_snapshot:

hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

validate_certs: no

datacenter: '{{ datacenter }}'

name: '{{ item }}'

folder: "/{{ datacenter }}/vm"

state: remove_all

with_items: "{{ all_vm }}"

delegate_to: localhost

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[Gerry Maddock]

Thanks Abhijeet, I'm testing now. Its complaining mapping values are not allowed in this context 

The offending line appears to be:

    - name Get a list of all VM names

      set_fact:

              ^ here

Looks like it could be a spacing issue, but all spacing looks good. Still testing.

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[Gerry Maddock]

Abhijeet, that worked, thanks!. My next question is what if vcenter has multiple datacenters? I would like to do this for all datacenters.

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[Gerry Maddock]

Seems to be working on all datacenters (which is what I wanted) even though I only had one defined. Do you work @ Redhat? I was looking you up on LinkedIn.

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Hi Gerry,

vmware_vm_info finds all VMS irrespective of the datacenter (because it was designed that way) but snapshot takes datacenter and folder into consideration so I think you are good to go.

Yes, I work at RH.

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