Ansible loop issue

[HBach]

Hi, Community, 

I am passing in a list, 'vmware_hosts', to the loop in the following task in order to substitute values for the name: and hostname: parameters.  I have found only the sub is being made for name: but not for hostname:.  

- name: Set powerstate of a virtual machine to poweron
  community.vmware.vmware_guest:
    hostname: "{{ vc_host_id }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ survey_password }}"
    name: "{{ item }}"
    customization:
      existing_vm: true
      dns_servers:
      - "{{ dns_ns1 }}"
      - "{{ dns_ns2 }}"
      hostname: "{{ item }}"
    state: poweredon
    wait_for_ip_address: true
  loop: "{{ vmware_hosts }}"
  register: vm_state
  delegate_to: localhost

For each iteration of the loop, i.e. a different host, I need these two parameters to hold the same value.  

What am I missing here?  

Thanks!  

[Todd Lewis]

I'm inclined to believe someone is confused by the two hostname: parameters, and would need to see some job log evidence supporting the claim that "the sub[stitution] is being made for name: but not for hostname:." In any case, something from the job log would/should be informative.

I've found in situations like this it's helpful to change to module to ansible.builtin.debug: immediately followed by msg: |. You'd then need to play with indentation a little to make it informative.

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[HBach]

Thanks, Todd.  

According the docs, the name: param is for the virtual machine and hostname: under customization: is for setting the hostname.  I was able to register the stdout of the task, capturing it 

to a variable.   The substitutions are being made.  

      "instance": {
        "module_hw": true,
        "hw_name": "rheltest0816d",
        "hw_power_status": "poweredOn",

-and- 

          "customization": {
            "existing_vm": true,
            "dns_servers": [
              "redacted",
              "redacted"
            ],
            "domain": "<redacted>",
            "hostname": "rheltest0816d",

The hostname is not being updated on the vm though and that's causing a glitch downstream in the next job template in the workflow.  

I'm not sure if I should move the state: param near the beginning of the task.