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Installation, Upgrade & Configuration

  • Installation Guide
  • Ansible Porting Guides

Using Ansible

  • User Guide

Contributing to Ansible

  • Ansible Community Guide

Extending Ansible

  • Developer Guide

Common Ansible Scenarios

  • Legacy Public Cloud Guides
  • Network Technology Guides
  • Virtualization and Containerization Guides

Network Automation

  • Network Getting Started
  • Network Advanced Topics
  • Network Developer Guide

Ansible Galaxy

  • Galaxy User Guide
  • Galaxy Developer Guide

Reference & Appendices

  • Collection Index
    • Collections in the Amazon Namespace
    • Collections in the Ansible Namespace
    • Collections in the Arista Namespace
    • Collections in the Awx Namespace
    • Collections in the Azure Namespace
    • Collections in the Check_point Namespace
    • Collections in the Chocolatey Namespace
    • Collections in the Cisco Namespace
    • Collections in the Cloud Namespace
    • Collections in the Cloudscale_ch Namespace
    • Collections in the Community Namespace
    • Collections in the Containers Namespace
    • Collections in the Cyberark Namespace
    • Collections in the Dellemc Namespace
    • Collections in the F5networks Namespace
    • Collections in the Fortinet Namespace
    • Collections in the Frr Namespace
    • Collections in the Gluster Namespace
    • Collections in the Google Namespace
    • Collections in the Hetzner Namespace
    • Collections in the Hpe Namespace
    • Collections in the Ibm Namespace
    • Collections in the Infinidat Namespace
    • Collections in the Infoblox Namespace
    • Collections in the Inspur Namespace
    • Collections in the Junipernetworks Namespace
    • Collections in the Kubernetes Namespace
    • Collections in the Mellanox Namespace
    • Collections in the Netapp Namespace
    • Collections in the Netapp_eseries Namespace
    • Collections in the Netbox Namespace
    • Collections in the Ngine_io Namespace
    • Collections in the Openstack Namespace
    • Collections in the Openvswitch Namespace
    • Collections in the Ovirt Namespace
    • Collections in the Purestorage Namespace
    • Collections in the Sensu Namespace
    • Collections in the Servicenow Namespace
    • Collections in the Splunk Namespace
    • Collections in the T_systems_mms Namespace
    • Collections in the Theforeman Namespace
    • Collections in the Vmware Namespace
      • Vmware.Vmware_Rest
        • Description
        • Scenario Guide
        • Developer Guide
        • Plugin Index
    • Collections in the Vyos Namespace
    • Collections in the Wti Namespace
  • Indexes of all modules and plugins
  • Playbook Keywords
  • Return Values
  • Ansible Configuration Settings
  • Controlling how Ansible behaves: precedence rules
  • YAML Syntax
  • Python 3 Support
  • Interpreter Discovery
  • Releases and maintenance
  • Testing Strategies
  • Sanity Tests
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Glossary
  • Ansible Reference: Module Utilities
  • Special Variables
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • Ansible Automation Hub
  • Logging Ansible output

Roadmaps

  • Ansible Roadmap




Ansible
  • Collection Index
  • Collections in the Vmware Namespace
  • Vmware.Vmware_Rest
  • VMware Guide (REST)
  • Edit on GitHub

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VMware Guide (REST)

  • How to install the vmware_rest collection
  • How to configure the vmware_rest collection

Life cycle of a Virtual Machine

These scenarios teach you how to accomplish common VMware tasks using the REST API and the Ansible vmware.vmware_rest collection. To get started, please select the task you want to accomplish.

  • How to collect information about your environment
  • How to create a Virtual Machine
  • Retrieve information from a specific VM
  • How to modify a virtual machine
  • How to run a virtual machine
  • How to get information from a running virtual machine
  • How to configure the VMware tools of a running virtual machine

Manage a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

  • Configure the console and SSH access
  • Get the health state of the VCSA components
  • Network managment
  • Services managment
  • System managment
  • FIPS mode
  • Time and Timezone configuration
  • Storage system
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