--- - name: Create a VM folder on given Datacenter vcenter_folder: hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}' username: '{{ vcenter_username }}' password: '{{ vcenter_password }}' datacenter: '{{ dc1 }}' folder_name: '{{ f0 }}' folder_type: vm state: present validate_certs: no - name: Create VMs vmware_guest: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ dc1 }}" validate_certs: no folder: '{{ f0 }}' cluster: '{{ ccr1 }}' name: '{{ item }}' state: poweredon guest_id: debian8_64Guest disk: - size_gb: 1 type: thin datastore: '{{ ds2 }}' hardware: memory_mb: 128 num_cpus: 1 scsi: paravirtual cdrom: type: iso iso_path: "[{{ ds1 }}] Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-29-1.2.iso" networks: - name: VM Network with_items: '{{ infra.vm_list }}'