vsphere

ansible-role-vsphere

An Ansible role that creates Virtual machines in the vmware virtualization environment. IP address of the virtual machines are updated in the inventory file for further use in other roles/playbook.

Requirements

pysphere package installed on the ansible machine. Vmware vCenter environment is configured and available. Template version of the virtual machine is available in the vCenter for deployment

Role Variables

Available Variables are listed below

vsphere_vcenter_hostname: "vcenter1"
  vsphere_vcenter_username: "root"
vsphere_vcenter_password: "passwd"

VCenter server name/IP address and the credentials to connect to the vCenter Server.

vsphere_datacenter_name: "datacenter1"
vsphere_esxi_host: "esx1"

Datacenter under which the virtual machines will be created and the ESXi server to associate the virtual machines.

vsphere_datastore_name: "datastore1"

Datastore name where the hard disk for the virtual machine will be stored

vsphere_template_name: "centos_template"

Preinstalled OS image template that will get installed

Host variable in the inventory file are listed below with default values

[hosts]

Group name to collect the list of virutual machine names in the inventory file

<vm name> cpu=2 memory=4096 disk=20

Name of the virutal machine required, number of virtual cpus required, memory size in MB, disk size in GB

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- 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