Vmware.Collection: vmware_guest_snapshot setting expiration

[kyle jones]

Hello,

Does anyone have any documentation or know what parameters to use when using vmware_guest_snapshot to take snapshot, but adding an expiration period? 

I looked over the ansible docs a few times and I did not see it.

[ironma...@gmail.com]

Hey Kyle – I have done a bit of ansible playbooks for the VI environment I work in…I had found that ansible is someone limit with the VI module.    I have accomplished everything with PowerCLI with ansible.windows.win_shell module.     I run it all from the Ansible server by installing Powershell on the RHEL ansible server.    This setup allows us to run deeper/more complicated plays.    

My 2 cents…

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[kyle jones]

Ah! Okay then it’s not just me. Mind pointing out some documentation on the powershell script? 

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[Stefan Coussens]

I don't know if you use tower but what I do is take a snapshot named "snapshot by ansible" and  for the removal I use the absent parameter  (state: absent) and schedule the playbook to run at a certain time.

[ironma...@gmail.com]

Just a example but there is a lot out there:   https://petri.com/use-powercli-create-snapshot/

 

Examples of the plays that I run:

 

- name: Check the servers in the cluster to ensure none are offline

  ansible.builtin.shell: |

    Connect-VIServer -Server "{{ inventory_hostname }}" -User "{{ Admin_Acct }}" -Password "{{ Admin_Pass }}" | Out-Null

    $NotRespondingHost = (Get-Cluster | Get-VMHost | ? { $_.ConnectionState -match "NotResponding"}).Name

    ForEach ($NotRespondingHost in $NotRespondingHosts) {

       $pos = $NotRespondingHost.IndexOf(".")

       $ESXi_name = $NotRespondingHost.Substring(0, $pos)

       $domain_name = $NotRespondingHost.Substring($pos+1)

       $ESXi_name + "._ilo." + $domain_name

    }

  args:

    executable: /usr/bin/pwsh

  register: NotRespondingHostILO_Pre

  delegate_to: localhost

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[kyle jones]

We don't have tower but I am planning on building AWX. We only have satellite and it is very limited. 

[kyle jones]

Thank you for sharing!