vmware_host_facts – Gathers facts about remote ESXi hostsystem

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• This module can be used to gathers facts like CPU, memory, datastore, network and system etc. about ESXi host system.
• Please specify hostname or IP address of ESXi host system as hostname.
• If hostname or IP address of vCenter is provided as hostname and esxi_hostname is not specified, then the module will throw an error.
• VSAN facts added in 2.7 version.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python >= 2.6
• PyVmomi

Parameters

Examples

- name: Gather vmware host facts
  vmware_host_facts:
    hostname: "{{ esxi_server }}"
    username: "{{ esxi_username }}"
    password: "{{ esxi_password }}"
  register: host_facts
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Gather vmware host facts from vCenter
  vmware_host_facts:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
    esxi_hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
  register: host_facts
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Get VSAN Cluster UUID from host facts
  vmware_host_facts:
    hostname: "{{ esxi_server }}"
    username: "{{ esxi_username }}"
    password: "{{ esxi_password }}"
  register: host_facts
- set_fact:
    cluster_uuid: "{{ host_facts['ansible_facts']['vsan_cluster_uuid'] }}"

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Wei Gao (@woshihaoren)