Manage Vmware Machines With Ansible

Connecting to vCenters to manage VM's using ansible. 

Following are the quick playbooks that can be used for the Cloning and Deletion of a Current template VM. 

Clone a VM in Vcenter with Ansible Playbook

- hosts: localhost

gather_facts: no

vars:

vcenter_server: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

vcenter_user: "User-Name"

vcenter_pass: "Password"

datacenter_name: "DC-Name"

cluster_name: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

resources_pool: "RG-Name"

template_vm: "Template-Name"

serv:

- vm1

- vm2

tasks:

- name: Clone the template

vmware_guest:

hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"

username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"

password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"

resource_pool: "rahul-test"

validate_certs: False

name: "{{ item }}"

template: "{{ template_vm }}"

datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"

folder: /{{ datacenter_name }}/vm

state: poweredon

wait_for_ip_address: yes

register: "r"

with_items: "{{ serv }}"

- debug :

msg: "This is the Host-IPs: {{ item.instance.ipv4 }} {{ item.instance.hw_name }}"

with_items: "{{ r.results}}"

loop_control:

label: "{{ item.instance.hw_name }}"

Shutdown a VM in Vcenter with Ansible Playbook

- hosts: localhost

gather_facts: no

vars:

vcenter_server: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

vcenter_user: "User-Name"

vcenter_pass: "Password"

datacenter_name: "DC-Name"

cluster_name: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

tasks:

- name: Shutdown the template

vmware_guest:

hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"

username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"

password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"

validate_certs: False

name: "{{ item}}"

datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"

folder: /{{ datacenter_name }}/vm

state: poweredoff

wait_for_ip_address: yes

loop:

- vm1

- vm2

Delete a VM in Vcenter with Ansible Playbook

- hosts: localhost

gather_facts: no

vars:

vcenter_server: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

vcenter_user: "User-Name"

vcenter_pass: "Password"

datacenter_name: "DC-Name"

cluster_name: "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

tasks:

- name: Delete the template

vmware_guest:

hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"

username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"

password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"

validate_certs: False

name: "{{ item}}"

datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"

folder: /{{ datacenter_name }}/vm

state: absent

wait_for_ip_address: yes

loop:

- vm1

- vm2