connect to multiple vcenters and esxi hosts without host file

[Tony Wong]

I got this pb but it is only working for single vcenter and I have to put the esxi hosts into a host file.

Is it possible to connect to multiple vcenters and lookup all the esxi hosts and connect to them instead of using host file?

vars.yml

vcenter_hostname: vcenter1.domain.com

hostname: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

vcenter_creds.yml has my credentials and I run the pb with --ask-vault-pass

---

- hosts: all

  gather_facts: true

  connection: local

  vars_files:

    - vcenter_creds.yml

    - vars.yml

 

  tasks:

 

  - name: Gather vmware host facts from vCenter

    community.vmware.vmware_host_facts:

      hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

      username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

      password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

      esxi_hostname: "{{ hostname }}"

      validate_certs: no

    register: host_facts

    delegate_to: localhost

[Tony Wong]

Here is something I tried

---

- name: Enable SSH on ESXi Hosts

  hosts: localhost

  connection: local

  vars_files:

    - vars2.yml

    - vcenter_creds.yml

 

  tasks:

    - name: Connect to vCenter servers and retrieve ESXi host information

      vmware_host:

        hostname: "{{ item }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"

        validate_certs: no

        gather_vm_hosts: yes

        gather_nic_info: yes

        gather_vswitch_info: yes

      register: vmware_info

      with_items: "{{ vcenter_servers }}"

in my vars.yml file

vcenter_servers:

  - vcenter1.domain.com

  - vcenter2.domain.com

But I got error

TASK [Connect to vCenter servers and retrieve ESXi host information] *********************************************************************************************

failed: [localhost] (item=) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": "", "msg": "missing required arguments: datacenter_name, esxi_hostname"}

failed: [localhost] (item=) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": ""msg": "missing required arguments: datacenter_name, esxi_hostname"}

[Ravi yadav]

please use vmware_vm_facts: module, it will collect all info connected to vmware, from there you can filter ESX names.

it will collect for all vcenter mentioned in your var2.yml file.

Ravi

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