Hi Nigel / Jon

I changed the following as suggessted:

guest: "{{ item }}"

What is happening now is when I run the playbook it is creating one VM in 
vSphere called "files/hostnames"??

So its as if the playbook is looking at, with_items: "{{ serverlist }}", 
and then seeing the variable, serverlist: files/hostnames, and then 
creating a VM with that name. Its not looking into the 'hostnames' file and 
creating the multiple VM's in that file??

Any ideas?

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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