vc_vmcreate

This role allows you deploy new VM or some VMs in VMWare Vcenter. Tested with 5.5 and 6.0 - works perfect.

You can easly deploy lot's of virtual machines from template. Also you can combine this role with your own roles for some installation on freshly created VMs.

Requirements

Role Variables

Add this later, or.... doesnt' really matter

Dependencies

There are no deps from Ansible Galaxy

Example Playbook

Here is the example of using:

Main file(playbook.yaml):

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  vars_files:
    - vc.yml    # file with sensitive data from vcenter
    - testvm.yml
  roles:
    - vmcreate
...

File with VM's info (testvm.yaml):

---

vm_name: "testvm20170910"
vm_state: "powered_on"
vm_notes: "VM_for_testing_purposes"
vm_disk:
  disk1:
    size_gb: "10"
    type: "thin"
    datastore: "stor1.esxi.nl.data01.vv"
  disk2:
    size_gb: "5"
    type: "thin"
    datastore: "stor2.esxi.nl.data01.vv"
vm_nic:
  nic1:
    type: "vmxnet3"
    network: "vDS01-VLANXXX-Test"
    network_type: "standard"
    ip: "192.168.1.100"
    netmask: "255.255.255.0"
    gateway: "192.168.1.1"
    domain: "domain.lan"
    dns_servers:
      - "192.168.1.1"
      - "192.168.1.2"
  nic2:
    type: "vmxnet3"
    network: "vDS01-VLANXXX-Test"
    network_type: "standard"
vm_mem: "512"
vm_cpu: "1"
vm_osid: "centos64Guest"
datacenter: "BMH-DC"
target_esxi: "domain-esxi05.domain.lan"
from_template: "yes"
template_src: "testtemplate"

...

File with sensitive data to get access to VCenter(vc.yaml): Please be aware that it's better to keep such data with Ansible Vault

---
vcenter_hostname: "vcenter01.domain.lan"
vcenter_username: "ansible@domainlan"
vcenter_password: "password"
...

License

GPL V3

Author Information

Tenhi([email protected])