ansible-role-vsphere

This Ansible role helps create virtual machines in a VMware environment. It updates the IP addresses of the virtual machines in the inventory file so they can be used later in other roles or playbooks.

Requirements

• You need to have the pysphere package installed on your Ansible machine.
• Your VMware vCenter environment must be set up and accessible.
• A template version of the virtual machine must be available in vCenter for deployment.

Role Variables

Here’s a list of available variables:

• vsphere_vcenter_hostname: "vcenter1"
  This is the name or IP address of the vCenter server.

• vsphere_vcenter_username: "root"
  The username to log in to the vCenter server.

• vsphere_vcenter_password: "passwd"
  The password for the username to connect to the vCenter server.

• vsphere_datacenter_name: "datacenter1"
  The datacenter where the virtual machines will be created.

• vsphere_esxi_host: "esx1"
  The ESXi server where the virtual machines will be associated.

• vsphere_datastore_name: "datastore1"
  The name of the datastore where the virtual machine's hard disk will be stored.

• vsphere_template_name: "centos_template"
  The pre-installed OS template that will be used for installation.

In the inventory file, the host variables are listed below with default values:

• [hosts]
  This is the group name that collects the list of virtual machine names in the inventory file.

• <vm name> cpu=2 memory=4096 disk=20
  Here, replace <vm name> with the name of your virtual machine, followed by the number of virtual CPUs required, memory size in MB, and disk size in GB.

Dependencies

• None

Example Playbook

Here’s an example playbook to use this role:

- hosts: hosts
  connection: local
  vars:
    vsphere_vcenter_hostname: "vcenter1"
    vsphere_vcenter_username: "root"
    vsphere_vcenter_password: "passwd"
    vsphere_datacenter_name: "datacenter1"
    vsphere_esxi_host: "esx1"
    vsphere_datastore_name: "datastore1"
    vsphere_template_name: "centos_template"

  roles:
    - SathiyarajPeriyannan.vsphere 

License

• BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Sathiyaraj Periyannan.