community.vmware.vmware_cluster module – Manage VMware vSphere clusters

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 4.8.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_cluster.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This module has been moved to the new vmware.vmware collection

Alternative:

Use vmware.vmware.cluster instead.

Synopsis

  • Adds or removes VMware vSphere clusters.

  • To manage DRS, HA and VSAN related configurations, use the modules vmware_cluster_drs, vmware_cluster_ha and vmware_cluster_vsan.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cluster_name

string / required

The name of the cluster to be managed.

datacenter

aliases: datacenter_name

string / required

The name of the datacenter.

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_HOST will be used instead.

password

aliases: pass, pwd

string

The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PASSWORD will be used instead.

port

integer

The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PORT will be used instead.

Default: 443

proxy_host

string

Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

The format is a hostname or a IP.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_HOST will be used instead.

proxy_port

integer

Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_PORT will be used instead.

state

string

Create present or remove absent a VMware vSphere cluster.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

username

aliases: admin, user

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_USER will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • All modules requires API write access and hence is not supported on a free ESXi license.

  • All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.

See Also

See also

community.vmware.vmware_cluster_drs

Manage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) on VMware vSphere clusters.

community.vmware.vmware_cluster_ha

Manage High Availability (HA) on VMware vSphere clusters.

community.vmware.vmware_cluster_vsan

Manages virtual storage area network (vSAN) configuration on VMware vSphere clusters.

Examples

- name: Create Cluster
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: datacenter
    cluster_name: cluster
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete Cluster
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    datacenter_name: datacenter
    cluster_name: cluster
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Joseph Callen (@jcpowermac)

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)