vmware_guest_facts – Gather facts about a single VM

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status

Synopsis

Gather facts about a single VM on a VMware ESX cluster.

Requirements

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

python >= 2.6
PyVmomi

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
datacenter - / required		Destination datacenter for the deploy operation
folder -		Destination folder, absolute or relative path to find an existing guest. This is required if name is supplied. The folder should include the datacenter. ESX's datacenter is ha-datacenter Examples: folder: /ha-datacenter/vm folder: ha-datacenter/vm folder: /datacenter1/vm folder: datacenter1/vm folder: /datacenter1/vm/folder1 folder: datacenter1/vm/folder1 folder: /folder1/datacenter1/vm folder: folder1/datacenter1/vm folder: /folder1/datacenter1/vm/folder2 folder: vm/folder2 folder: folder2
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.
name -		Name of the VM to work with This is required if UUID is not supplied.
name_match -	first ← last	If multiple VMs matching the name, use the first or last found
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 added in 2.5	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 added in 2.8		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: [ "config.hardware.memoryMB", "config.hardware.numCPU", "guest.disk", "overallStatus" ] Only valid when `schema` is `vsphere`.
schema string added in 2.8	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
tags boolean added in 2.8	no ← yes	Whether to show tags or not. If set `True`, shows tag facts. If set `False`, hides tags facts. vSphere Automation SDK and vCloud Suite SDK is required.
use_instance_uuid boolean added in 2.8	no ← yes	Whether to use the VMWare instance UUID rather than the BIOS UUID.
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
uuid -		UUID of the instance to manage if known, this is VMware's unique identifier. This is required if name is not supplied.
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 `yes`, please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.

Notes

Note

Tested on vSphere 5.5, 6.7

Examples

- name: Gather facts from standalone ESXi server having datacenter as 'ha-datacenter'
  vmware_guest_facts:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    datacenter: ha-datacenter
    validate_certs: no
    uuid: 421e4592-c069-924d-ce20-7e7533fab926
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: facts

- name: Gather some facts from a guest using the vSphere API output schema
  vmware_guest_facts:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    validate_certs: no
    datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
    name: "{{ vm_name }}"
    schema: "vsphere"
    properties: ["config.hardware.memoryMB", "guest.disk", "overallStatus"]
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: facts

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
instance dictionary	always	metadata about the virtual machine Sample: {'annotation': , 'current_snapshot': None, 'customvalues': {}, 'guest_consolidation_needed': False, 'guest_question': None, 'guest_tools_status': 'guestToolsNotRunning', 'guest_tools_version': '10247', 'hw_cores_per_socket': 1, 'hw_datastores': ['ds_226_3'], 'hw_esxi_host': '10.76.33.226', 'hw_eth0': {'addresstype': 'assigned', 'ipaddresses': None, 'label': 'Network adapter 1', 'macaddress': '00:50:56:87:a5:9a', 'macaddress_dash': '00-50-56-87-a5-9a', 'portgroup_key': None, 'portgroup_portkey': None, 'summary': 'VM Network'}, 'hw_files': ['[ds_226_3] ubuntu_t/ubuntu_t.vmx', '[ds_226_3] ubuntu_t/ubuntu_t.nvram', '[ds_226_3] ubuntu_t/ubuntu_t.vmsd', '[ds_226_3] ubuntu_t/vmware.log', '[ds_226_3] u0001/u0001.vmdk'], 'hw_folder': '/DC0/vm/Discovered virtual machine', 'hw_guest_full_name': None, 'hw_guest_ha_state': None, 'hw_guest_id': None, 'hw_interfaces': ['eth0'], 'hw_is_template': False, 'hw_memtotal_mb': 1024, 'hw_name': 'ubuntu_t', 'hw_power_status': 'poweredOff', 'hw_processor_count': 1, 'hw_product_uuid': '4207072c-edd8-3bd5-64dc-903fd3a0db04', 'hw_version': 'vmx-13', 'instance_uuid': '5007769d-add3-1e12-f1fe-225ae2a07caf', 'ipv4': None, 'ipv6': None, 'module_hw': True, 'snapshots': [], 'tags': ['backup'], 'vnc': {}}

Status

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

Authors

Loic Blot (@nerzhul) <[email protected]>

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