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Configure Ansible for VMware — ansible collection community.vmware
How to configure Ansible to interact with VMware infrastructure -datacenter, cluster, host system, and virtual machine- python PyVmomi, and collection community.vmware and vmware_guest_info Hello World demo.
5 min readMay 11, 2022
How to configure Ansible for VMware?
Ansible provides various modules to manage VMware infrastructure, which includes data center, cluster, host system, and virtual machine.
I’ll show you step by step how to prepare your Ansible controller to interact with the VMware infrastructure.
This initial configuration sometimes is a roadblock for some VMware users to start using Ansible.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Configure Ansible for VMware
- vSphere 6.0, 5.5, 5.1 and 5.0
- Python pyVmomi supports 2.7.x and 3.4+
- Ansible collection `
community.vmware
`