Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot - Ansible module vmware_guest_snapshot — Video Tutorial

How to Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot 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 Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot - `community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot` - Manages virtual machines snapshots in vCenter Let's talk about the Ansible module `vmware_guest_snapshot`. The full name is `community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported. It manages virtual machine snapshots in vCenter. Parameters - hostname string / username string / password string / datacenter string / validate_certs boolean - connection details - state string - present / absent / revert / remove_all - remove_children boolean - no/yes - snapshot_name string description string - Name/description of the virtual machine to work with - memory_dump boolean - no/yes - memory snapshots take time and resource The following parameters are useful in order to Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot using the module `vmware_guest_snapshot`. First of all, we need to establish the connection with VMware vSphere or VMware vCenter using a plethora of self-explicative parameters: `hostname`, `username`, `password`, `datacenter`, and `validate_certs`. Once the connection is successfully established you could specify the desired snapshot state, in this case, "present" to take a snapshot. You could also `revert` or `remove` a snapshot with the same Ansible module. If you want to remove a snapshot you could also remove all the dependent snapshots using the parameter `remove_children`. It's a good practice to set the name and description of the snapshot using the`snapshot_name` and `description` parameters. Advanced practice is to create the memory dump of the virtual machines, please note that memory snapshots take time and resources will take a longer time to create. Default memory dump is disabled but you could enable using `memory_dump` parameter. Links - [community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_snapshot_module.html) ## Playbook How to Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to take a snapshot of the Virtual Machine named "myvm" using Ansible Playbook setting a name and description to easily find in your VMware vCenter. code - vm_snapshot_create.yml ```yaml --- - name: vm snapshot Playbook hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false collections: - community.vmware pre_tasks: - include_vars: vars.yml tasks: - name: create snapshot vmware_guest_snapshot: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" name: "{{ vm_name }}" s