community.vmware.vmware_vswitch_facts – Gathers facts about an ESXi host’s vswitch configurations¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.vmware collection (version 1.9.0).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_vswitch_facts
.
DEPRECATED¶
- Removed in
major release after 2021-12-01
- Why
Deprecated in favour of community.vmware.vmware_vswitch_info module.
- Alternative
Use community.vmware.vmware_vswitch_info instead.
Synopsis¶
This module can be used to gather facts about an ESXi host’s vswitch configurations when ESXi hostname or Cluster name is given.
The vSphere Client shows the value for the number of ports as elastic from vSphere 5.5 and above.
Other tools like esxcli might show the number of ports as 1536 or 5632.
See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2064511 for more details.
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 2.6
PyVmomi
Parameters¶
Examples¶
- name: Gather vswitch facts about all ESXi Host in given Cluster
community.vmware.vmware_vswitch_facts:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}'
delegate_to: localhost
register: all_hosts_vswitch_facts
- name: Gather firewall facts about ESXi Host
community.vmware.vmware_vswitch_facts:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}'
delegate_to: localhost
register: all_vswitch_facts
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Status¶
This module will be removed in a major release after 2021-12-01. [deprecated]
For more information see DEPRECATED.
Authors¶
Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)