Ansible offers a list of modules to enable VMware infrastructure automated management.

We need to have the pyVmomi Python SDK installed:

pip install pyvmomi

These modules are built to manage the VMware ESX, ESXi, and vCenter server. In this section, we will describe some of the most useful modules that are involved in managing the VMware infrastructure.

An inventory file is required to host some of the data centre information:

---
[vms:vars]
datacenter: "vcenter.lab.edu"
vcenter_hostname: "vcenter.lab.edu"
vcenter_username: "admin"
vcenter_password: "@dm1np@55w0rd"
 
[vms]
vm0
vm1
vm2

[esxi_hostname]
esxihost1         esxihost1.lab.edu
esxihost2         esxihost2.lab.edu