Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID - Ansible module vmware_guest_info — Video Tutorial

How to Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID 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 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. Links - [`community.vmware.vmware_guest_info`](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_info_module.html) Playbook 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 ```yaml --- - name: vm UUID Playbook 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 ```yaml --- vcenter_hostname: "vmware.example.com" vcenter_datacenter: "vmwaredatacenter" vcenter_validate_certs: false vcenter_username: "username@vsphere.local" vcenter_password: "MySecretPassword123" vm_name: "myvm" ``` execution ```bash $ 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 Playbook] *************************************************************************************** TASK [include_vars] *************************************************************************************** ok: [localhost] TASK [Get VM UUID] ******************************************************************