create single vmware dynamic inventory from multiple vcenters

[Amjad Saleem]

I am trying to collect all vms in four different vcenters to create inventory and further act on the that inventory. Using vmware_vm_inventory, I can target one vcenter and hostname does not support a list:

plugin: vmware_vm_inventory strict: False hostname: 10.65.223.31 username: admini...@vsphere.local password: XXXXXYYZZ validate_certs: False with_tags: True

I can make hostname as variable and provide it at runtime but then I will have run the playbook four times.

Is there a way to collect vms from all four vcenters and then run tasks on them?

Thanks in advance.

[Rodrigues]

Not sure exactly what details you need from VMs, but defining vcenters as vars or part of your inventory will get you a list of vms using vmware_vm_info. Just update the vars section and add as many VCs as you'd like.  You will end up with a list of vcenters and whitin the VM details.

---

- hosts: localhost

connection: local

gather_facts: false

vars:

vcenters:

- vc1

- vc2

- vc3

vcenter_username: "admini...@vsphere.local"

vcenter_password: "password"

tasks:

- name: Gather all registered virtual machines

community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:

hostname: '{{ item }}'

username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

validate_certs: False

delegate_to: localhost

register: myvm

with_items: '{{ vcenters }}'

- name: debug

debug:

msg: "{{ myvm }}"

[Eshtehar Khan]

Thanks Rodrigues. The ended up using separate inventory file for each vcenter and than specifying them with multiple -i flags like so:

ansible-inventory -i inventory_file1.yml -i inventory_file2.yml -i inventory_file3.yml 

to get all the vms in all the vcenters.