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Introduction to Ansible for VMware
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Introduction
Ansible provides various modules to manage VMware infrastructure, which includes datacenter, cluster, host system and virtual machine.
Requirements
Ansible VMware modules are written on top of pyVmomi. pyVmomi is the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API that allows user to manage ESX, ESXi, and vCenter infrastructure. You can install pyVmomi using pip:
$ pip install pyvmomivmware_guest module
The vmware_guest<vmware_guest_module> module manages
various operations related to virtual machines in the given ESXi or
vCenter server.
- pyVmomi
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The GitHub Page of pyVmomi
- pyVmomi Issue Tracker
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The issue tracker for the pyVmomi project
- govc
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govc is a vSphere CLI built on top of govmomi
working_with_playbooks-
An introduction to playbooks