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Luca Berton is an Ansible automation expert, author of 8 Ansible books published by Apress and Leanpub including "Ansible for VMware by Examples" and "Ansible for Kubernetes by Example", and creator of the Ansible Pilot YouTube channel. He shares practical automation knowledge through tutorials, books, and video courses to help IT professionals and DevOps engineers master infrastructure automation.

Gather VMware ESX/ESXi Host Info with Ansible — Video Tutorial

Discover how to gather info about VMware ESX/ESXi hosts in a cluster using Ansible. Follow our live Playbook and simple code examples to get started.

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  • How to Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in a given Cluster with Ansible?
  • Ansible Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in given Cluster
  • Parameters
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  • Conclusion
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How to Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in a given Cluster 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 Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in given Cluster - `community.vmware.vmware_host_config_info` - Gathers info about an ESXi host’s advanced configuration information Let’s talk about the Ansible module `vmware_host_config_info`. The full name is `community.vmware.vmware_host_config_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 an ESXi host’s advanced configuration information. Parameters - `hostname` string / port integer / username string / password string / datacenter string / validate_certs boolean — connection details - `cluster_name` string — Name of the cluster from which the ESXi host belongs to. - `esxi_hostname` string — ESXi hostname to gather information from. The following parameters are useful in order to Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in the given Cluster using the module `vmware_host_config_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 full `esxi_hostname`, the ESX/ESXi hostname, or list all the hostnames in the current cluster `cluster_name`. Links - [`community.vmware.vmware_host_config_info`](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_cluster_info_module.html) ## Playbook How to Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in given Cluster with Ansible. I’m going to show you how to Gather Information on all the ESX/ESXi Host in the current VMware “production” cluster using Ansible Playbook. code - host_info_cluser.yml ```yaml --- - name: host in cluster info Playbook hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false collections: - community.vmware pre_tasks: - include_vars: vars.yml tasks: - name: Gather info about all ESXi Host in given Cluster community.vmware.vmware_host_config_info: hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}' username: '{{ vcenter_username }}' password: '{{ vcenter_password }}' validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" cluster_name: "{{ cluster_name }}" register: cluster_info - name: print cluster info ansible.builtin.debug: var: cluster_info ``` - vars.yml ```yaml --- vcenter_hostname: "vmware.example.com" vcenter_datacenter: "vmwaredatacenter" vcenter_validate_certs: false vcenter_username: "username@vsphere.local" vcenter_password: "MySecretPassword123" cluster_name: "production" ``` execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook cluster_info.yml PLAY [cluster info Playbook] ****

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  • Author: Luca Berton
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Read time: 14 min
  • Category: installation

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