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Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID - Ansible module vmware_guest_info

By Luca Berton · Published 2024-01-01 · Category: troubleshooting

How to automate the gathering of UUID of a specific “myvm” VMware vSphere Virtual Machine using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_info module.

How to Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID 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 Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID • community.vmware.vmware_guest_info • Gather info about a single VM

Let's talk about the Ansible module vmware_guest_info. The full name is community.vmware.vmware_guest_info, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported. The module's purpose is to gather info about a single VM.

Parameters • hostname string / port integer / username string / password string / datacenter string / validate_certs boolean - connection details • name string - Virtual machine name

The following parameters are useful in order to Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID using the module vmware_guest_info. First of all, we need to establish the connection with VMware vSphere or VMware vCenter using a plethora of self-explicative parameters: hostname, port, username, password, datacenter, and validate_certs. Once the connection is successfully established you could specify the virtual machine name to obtain all information about it.

Links • community.vmware.vmware_guest_info

Playbook How to Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to Gather Information about a specific "myvm" VMware Virtual Machine and select the UUID using Ansible Playbook.

code • vm_uuid.yml • vars.yml

execution

idempotency

after execution

!vmware_guest_info after execution

code with ❤️ in GitHub

Conclusion Now you know how to Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID with Ansible.

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