Gather List of VMs running on vmware esxi host

[Ahamed Fazlul Wahab]

Hi All,

I'm quite new to ansible, so apologies if I'm asking an obvious question.

Is it possible for any ansible vmware module to fetch the list of VMs running on a particular vmware esxi host. Also we need to extract certain VM information of each VM (OS type, OS version, hostname., IP)

Could this be done ? If yes, could someone tell me which module to use. 

Appreciate you help on this. Thank you.

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Hi,

You can take a look at `vmware_vm_info` module, it will return details about all VMs, Templates in the given folder. Here is basic example -

- name: Gather all registered virtual machines

vmware_vm_info:

hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

delegate_to: localhost

register: vminfo

- debug:

var: vminfo.virtual_machines

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[Ahamed Fazlul Wahab]

Thank you Abhikeet for the quick response, Will take a look into it. 

On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 8:20:34 PM UTC+8, Abhijeet Kasurde wrote:

Hi,

You can take a look at `vmware_vm_info` module, it will return details about all VMs, Templates in the given folder. Here is basic example -

- name: Gather all registered virtual machines

vmware_vm_info:

hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

delegate_to: localhost

register: vminfo

- debug:

var: vminfo.virtual_machines

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:25 PM Ahamed Fazlul Wahab <afws...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm quite new to ansible, so apologies if I'm asking an obvious question.

Is it possible for any ansible vmware module to fetch the list of VMs running on a particular vmware esxi host. Also we need to extract certain VM information of each VM (OS type, OS version, hostname., IP)

Could this be done ? If yes, could someone tell me which module to use. 

Appreciate you help on this. Thank you.

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[alicia]

The  VMware dynamic inventory plugin will track your running VMs, creating and updating an inventory (or list) of all VMs running in VMware: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/vmware_scenarios/vmware_inventory.html

Once you have the VMs in inventory, you can use the VMware guest info module to retrieve information about the individual VMs:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/vmware_guest_info_module.html#vmware-guest-info-module

You can also reach out to the working group for VMware on Freenode IRC - the channel is #ansible-vmware. 

Hope this helps,

Alicia

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