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Learn how to use the Ansible open-source IT automation tool to automate your VMware infrastructure. Ansible For VMware By Examples book, authored by Luca Berton and published by Apress (Springer Nature Information Technology specialist), available in the best libraries and online bookshops.

Ansible For VMware By Examples book, authored by Luca Berton, and published by Apress (Springer Nature Information Technology specialist) is going to be released soon in the best libraries and online bookshops.

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 automate the gathering of advanced configuration information for all the VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts inside the “production” cluster using Ansible Playbook and vmware_host_config_info module.

How to configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware community.vmware Ansible collection to use the latest releases of Python 3.8, pyVmomi, requests, and VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python libraries.

How to list all the virtual machines in your VMware Infrastructure and use it as an Ansible inventory.

How to automate the expansion from 1GB to 2GB size Virtual Disk connected to VMware Virtual Machine guest named “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_disk module.

Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:897)” to find the root cause, connection problem connecting, and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.

How to automate the addition of a 1GB size Hard Disk to VMware Virtual Machine guest named “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_disk module.

How to automate taking snapshots named “Ansible Managed Snapshot” to a VMware Virtual Machine “myvm” Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_snapshot module.

How to automate the delete of snapshot named “Ansible Managed Snapshot” in a VMware Virtual Machine “myvm” Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_snapshot module.

How to automate the gracefully use guest shutdown and forcefully power off to change the power state from Powered On to Powered Off of the virtual machine guest “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_powerstate module.