vmware_vswitch_facts – Gathers facts about an ESXi host’s vswitch configurations

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• This module can be used to gather facts about an ESXi host’s vswitch configurations when ESXi hostname or Cluster name is given.
• The vSphere Client shows the value for the number of ports as elastic from vSphere 5.5 and above.
• Other tools like esxcli might show the number of ports as 1536 or 5632.
• See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2064511 for more details.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• PyVmomi

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Gather vswitch facts about all ESXi Host in given Cluster
  vmware_vswitch_facts:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}'
    delegate_to: localhost
  register: all_hosts_vswitch_facts

- name: Gather firewall facts about ESXi Host
  vmware_vswitch_facts:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}'
    delegate_to: localhost
  register: all_vswitch_facts

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

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

Authors

• Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)