Introduction to Ansible for VMware
Introduction
Ansible provides various modules to manage VMware infrastructure, which includes datacenter, cluster, host system and virtual machine.
Requirements
Ansible VMware modules are written on top of pyVmomi. pyVmomi is the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API that allows user to manage ESX, ESXi, and vCenter infrastructure. You can install pyVmomi using pip:
$ pip install pyvmomi
vmware_guest module
The vmware_guest module manages various operations related to virtual machines in the given ESXi or vCenter server.
See also
- pyVmomi
- The GitHub Page of pyVmomi
- pyVmomi Issue Tracker
- The issue tracker for the pyVmomi project
- govc
- govc is a vSphere CLI built on top of govmomi
- Working With Playbooks
- An introduction to playbooks
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/scenario_guides/vmware_scenarios/vmware_intro.html