Dependencies

Install Ansible

The example below is for RHEL/CentOS 8

sudo dnf -y install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install ansible --user

Clone Repo

git clone https://github.com/Sapphire-Health/ansible-vmware.git
cd ansible-vmware

Install Dependencies

ansible-galaxy collection install -r collections/requirements.yml
yum install python3-pyvmomi

Set environment variables

In Ansible Tower these values are configured using a "VMware vCenter" credential resource.

export VMWARE_HOST=vcenterhostname.fqdn.com
export VMWARE_USER=domain\\username
export VMWARE_PASSWORD=password

Optionally prompt for username and password so the values won't be saved in bash history

IFS= read -p 'Username: ' -r VMWARE_USER
IFS= read -s -p 'Password: ' -r VMWARE_PASSWORD
export VMWARE_USER
export VMWARE_PASSWORD

Get ESXi Inventory in YAML format

ansible-inventory -i inventory_esxi_vmware.yml --list -y

List all VMs on ESXi hosts using dynamic inventory

ansible-playbook -i inventory_esxi_vmware.yml -e match_host=wjm* esxi/get_vms.yml