Start a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine — Ansible module vmware_guest_powerstate

How to automate the change of power state from Powered Off to Powered On of the virtual machine guest “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_powerstate module.

How to Start a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible Start a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine

• `community.vmware.vmware_guest_powerstate`
• Manages power states of virtual machines in vCenter

Let’s talk about the Ansible module `vmware_guest_powerstate`.

The full name is `community.vmware.vmware_guest_powerstate`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported.

Manages power states of virtual machines in vCenter.

Parameters

• hostname string / username string /…