community.vmware.vmware_portgroup_info – Gathers info about an ESXi host’s Port Group configuration

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community.vmware.vmware_portgroup_info – Gathers info about an ESXi host’s Port Group configuration

Note

This plugin is part of the community.vmware collection (version 1.7.0).

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

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


Synopsis

  • This module can be used to gather information about an ESXi host’s Port Group configuration when ESXi hostname or Cluster name is given.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6
  • PyVmomi

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

cluster_name

string

Name of the cluster.

Info will be returned for all hostsystem belonging to this cluster name.

If esxi_hostname is not given, this parameter is required.

esxi_hostname

string

ESXi hostname to gather information from.

If cluster_name is not given, this parameter is required.

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

policies

boolean

  • no

  • yes

Gather information about Security, Traffic Shaping, as well as Teaming and failover.

The property ts stands for Traffic Shaping and lb for Load Balancing.

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.

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.

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 portgroup info about all ESXi Host in given Cluster
  community.vmware.vmware_portgroup_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}'
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Gather portgroup info about ESXi Host system
  community.vmware.vmware_portgroup_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}'
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description

hosts_portgroup_info

dictionary

on success

metadata about host's portgroup configuration


Sample:

{'esx01': [{'failback': True, 'failover_active': ['vmnic0', 'vmnic1'], 'failover_standby': [], 'failure_detection': 'link_status_only', 'lb': 'loadbalance_srcid', 'notify': True, 'portgroup': 'Management Network', 'security': [False, False, False], 'ts': 'No override', 'vlan_id': 0, 'vswitch': 'vSwitch0'}, {'failback': True, 'failover_active': ['vmnic2'], 'failover_standby': ['vmnic3'], 'failure_detection': 'No override', 'lb': 'No override', 'notify': True, 'portgroup': 'vMotion', 'security': [False, False, False], 'ts': 'No override', 'vlan_id': 33, 'vswitch': 'vSwitch1'}]}




Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
  • Christian Kotte (@ckotte)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/vmware/vmware_portgroup_info_module.html