Create VMware vSphere VM with Ansible: Full Playbook Guide
By Luca Berton · Published 2024-01-01 · Category: troubleshooting
Master creating VMware vSphere VMs using Ansible. Our guide provides a comprehensive playbook and step-by-step instructions for VM setup and management.
How to create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot
Ansible creates a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine
> community.vmware.vmware_guest Manages virtual machines in vCenter
Today we're talking about the Ansible module vmware_guest. The full name is community.vmware.vmware_guest, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported. It's a module pretty stable and out for years. It manages virtual machines in vCenter.
Parameters The module vmware_guest has a very long list of parameters to customize all your needs to create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine. Please refer to manual for the full list.
Links • community.vmware.vmware_guest
## Playbook How to create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to create a Virtual Machine named "myvm" with the following resources: • 1 CPU • 1 GB of RAM • 10 GB of storage, thin-provisioned in the datastore "Datastore-1" network card name "VM Network", type "vmxnet3"
code • create_vm.yml • vars.yml • inventory
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idempotency
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!ansible_module_vmware_guest after execution
Conclusion Now you know how to create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible.
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