Create VMware vSphere VM with Ansible: Full Playbook Guide — Video Tutorial

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](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_module.html) ## 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 ```yaml --- - name: create vm Playbook hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false collections: - community.vmware pre_tasks: - include_vars: vars.yml tasks: - name: create folder vcenter_folder: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" datacenter_name: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" folder_name: "{{ vcenter_destination_folder }}" folder_type: vm state: present - name: create VM vmware_guest: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" name: "{{ vm_name }}" folder: "{{ vcenter_destination_folder }}" state: "{{ vm_state }}" guest_id: "{{ vm_guestid }}" cluster: "{{ vcenter_cluster }}" disk: - size_gb: "{{ vm_disk_gb }}" type: "{{ vm_disk_type }}" datastore: "{{ vm_disk_datastore }}" hardware: memory_mb: "{{ vm_hw_ram_mb }}" num_cpus: "{{ vm_hw_cpu_n }}" scsi: "{{ vm_hw_scsi }}" networks: - name: "{{ vm_net_name }}" device_name: "{{ vm_net_type }}" ``` - vars.yml ```yaml --- vcenter_hostname: "vmware.example.com" vcenter_datacenter: "vmwaredatacenter" vcenter_validate_certs: false vcenter_username: "username@vsphere.local" vcenter_password: "MySecretPassword123" vm_name: "myvm" vm_guesti