Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID - Ansible module vmware_guest_info
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 demo 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.
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demo
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
---
- name: vm UUID demo
hosts: localhost
become: false
gather_facts: false
collections:
- community.vmware
pre_tasks:
- include_vars: vars.yml
tasks:
- name: Get VM UUID
vmware_guest_info:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
name: "{{ vm_name }}"
register: detailed_vm_info
- name: print VM UUID
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: detailed_vm_info.instance.hw_product_uuid
- vars.yml
---
vcenter_hostname: "vmware.example.com"
vcenter_datacenter: "vmwaredatacenter"
vcenter_validate_certs: false
vcenter_username: "[email protected]"
vcenter_password: "MySecretPassword123"
vm_name: "myvm"
execution
$ ansible-playbook vm_uuid.yml
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost
does not match 'all'
PLAY [vm UUID demo] ***************************************************************************************
TASK [include_vars] ***************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Get VM UUID] ****************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [print VM UUID] **************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"detailed_vm_info.instance.hw_product_uuid": "4225a846-b176-892d-0e27-10a4106269a0"
}
PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
idempotency
$ ansible-playbook vm_uuid.yml
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost
does not match 'all'
PLAY [vm UUID demo] ***************************************************************************************
TASK [include_vars] ***************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Get VM UUID] ****************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]
TASK [print VM UUID] **************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
"detailed_vm_info.instance.hw_product_uuid": "4225a846-b176-892d-0e27-10a4106269a0"
}
PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
vSphere
after execution
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