Hi Jon
Thanks so much for the response.
I was looking at that and have ried a few things without success.
Are you able to see if im on the right track here?
I have create a file called 'hostnames' which is located in a sub directory
(files) where the playbook is, and have included the vm names in that file:
---
serverlist:
- server1
- server2
I have then added the 'with_items' and variable 'serverlist'. But i think I
may be getting a bit confused through?
Im I completely off track here?
Playbook:
---
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
user: root
sudo: false
gather_facts: false
serial: 1
vars:
vcenter_hostname: UK.server.local
esxhost: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
datastore: UK1
network: Web
vmcluster: UKCLUSTER
serverlist: files/hostnames
folder: Utilities
notes: Created by Ansible
tasks:
- name: Create VM from template
vsphere_guest:
vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ username }}"
password: "{{ password }}"
guest: "{{ list }}"
vm_extra_config:
notes: "{{ notes }}"
folder: "{{ folder }}"
from_template: yes
template_src: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
cluster: "{{ vmcluster }}"
resource_pool: "/Resources"
with_items: "{{ serverlist }}
esxi:
datacenter: UK
hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
Cheers
Mark
On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 5:00:18 PM UTC, Mark Matthews wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Is it at all possible to create multiple VMware VM's using an Ansible
> playbook? Giving each VM a unique name (server1, server2, server3, server4)?
>
> I can see anyway of doing this using the following playbooks, as it keeps
> failing?
>
> ---
> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
> connection: local
> user: root
> sudo: false
> gather_facts: false
> serial: 1
> vars:
> vcenter_hostname: UK.server.local
> esxhost: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> datastore: UK1
> network: Web
> vmcluster: UKCLUSTER
> guest_name: server1, server2, server3, server4
> folder: Utilities
> notes: Created by Ansible
>
> tasks:
> - name: Create VM from template
> vsphere_guest:
> vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
> username: "{{ username }}"
> password: "{{ password }}"
> guest: "{{ guest_name }}"
> vm_extra_config:
> notes: "{{ notes }}"
> folder: "{{ folder }}"
> from_template: yes
> template_src: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
> cluster: "{{ vmcluster }}"
> resource_pool: "/Resources"
>
> esxi:
> datacenter: UK
> hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be really appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
>
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