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

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 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.