Role Name

vSphereVM is a role that helps vSphere administrators manage their virtual machines.

Requirements

You need to have pyvmomi installed.

To install it, use:

$ pip install --upgrade pyvmomi

Role Variables

The variables needed to connect to vCenter are defined in vars/main.yml:

vc_hostname: 192.168.6.10
vc_username: [email protected]
vc_password: Secret123!

vm_template: miquel-template-W2012R2-Std-ES

dc_domain: ncoraformacion.local
dc_domainadmin: [email protected]
dc_domainadminpass: Secret123!

localadminpass: Secret123!

For security, it is recommended to encrypt this file with ansible-vault.

Variables for each VM you want to deploy are specified at the end of the deploy-customize-win.yml file:

##
##Insert below the variables for each VM to deploy
##
  with_items:
    - { vm_name: vm-demo, vm_ip: 10.0.0.100, vc_datacenter: VDC, vc_folder: /MIQUEL, vc_cluster: Cluster-EVC, vc_note: Created by Ansible, vm_datastore: FORM01_R5_LUN75, vm_networkportgroup: VLAN6_Formacion, vm_networkdns1: 192.168.6.100, vm_networkdns2: 192.168.6.101, vm_networkmask: 255.255.255.0, vm_networkgw: 192.168.6.1, vm_memory: 4096, vm_cpu: 4, vm_disksize: 20 }

Dependencies

No dependencies.

Example Playbook

---
###vSphereVM.yml

- hosts: ansible
  user: root
  tasks:
     - name: Ensure that role is up to date
       command: ansible-galaxy install --force {{ item }}
       with_items:
          - miquelMariano.vSphereVM
       when:
          - update_mode | default(False)
       tags: update
       ignore_errors: yes

- hosts: ansible
  user: root
  roles:
     - role: miquelMariano.vSphereVM

Execute Playbook

You can run the playbook with the following command:

ansible-playbook playbooks/vSphereVM.yml -i inventory/servers -e "update_mode=true" --tags=update

License

BSD

Author Information

Visit miquelMariano.github.io or Twitter.