community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info – Gather information about VMware vSphere Datacenters

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community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info – Gather information about VMware vSphere Datacenters

Note

This plugin is part of the community.vmware collection (version 1.6.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info.


Synopsis

  • This module can be used to gather information VMware vSphere Datacenters.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • PyVmomi

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

datacenter

string

The name of the datacenter to gather information for.

If not provided, will gather information about all datacenters from the VMware infra.


aliases: datacenter_name

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_HOST will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

password

string

The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PASSWORD will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.


aliases: pass, pwd

port

integer

Default:

443

The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PORT will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

properties

list / elements=string

Specify the properties to retrieve.

If not specified, all properties are retrieved (deeply).

Results are returned in a structure identical to the vSphere API.

Example:

properties: [

"overallStatus"

]

Only valid when schema is vsphere.

proxy_host

string

Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

The format is a hostname or a IP.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_HOST will be used instead.

This feature depends on a version of pyvmomi greater than v6.7.1.2018.12

proxy_port

integer

Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_PORT will be used instead.

schema

string

  • summary

  • vsphere

Specify the output schema desired.

The 'summary' output schema is the legacy output from the module.

The 'vsphere' output schema is the vSphere API class definition which requires pyvmomi>6.7.1.

show_tag

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Tags related to Datacenter are shown if set to True.

username

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_USER will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.


aliases: admin, user

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

If set to true, please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.



Notes

Note

  • Tested on vSphere 6.5


Examples

- name: Gather information about all datacenters
  community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Gather information about a particular datacenter
  community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Gather information about a particular datacenter
  community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
    show_tag: True
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Gather vSphere schema information
  community.vmware.vmware_datacenter_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
    schema: vsphere
    properties:
    - configStatus
    - overallStatus

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description

datacenter_info

list / elements=string

always

Information about datacenter


Sample:

[{'configStatus': 'gray', 'moid': 'datacenter-2', 'name': 'Asia-Datacenter1'}]




Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/vmware/vmware_datacenter_info_module.html