Hi Jon
I am still really battling with this...
I have changed the playbook to the following:
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"
esxi:
datacenter: UK
hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
with_items: "{{ serverlist }}"
As I mentioned, I have created 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.
As you can see I have said that the variable {{ serverlist }} needs to look
at the file path files/hostnames. Is that correct.
And in that hostnames file is the list of servers.
I have then put the variable "{{ list }}" for the guest option, but how
does Ansible know to create multiple VM's with those servers names?
Im starting to think that this insnt possible and Ansible is not able to do
this without having to repeat the playbook over and over again for as many
VM's as you want?
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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