community.vmware.vmware_cluster_info module – Gather info about clusters available in given vCenter

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 3.7.0).

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_info.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to gather information about clusters in VMWare infrastructure.

  • All values and VMware object names are case sensitive.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cluster_name

string

Name of the cluster.

If set, information of this cluster will be returned.

This parameter is required, if datacenter is not supplied.

datacenter

string

Datacenter to search for cluster/s.

This parameter is required, if cluster_name is not supplied.

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.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

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.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

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.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

Default: 443

properties

list / elements=string

Specify the properties to retrieve.

Example:

properties: [

“name”,

“configuration.dasConfig.enabled”,

“summary.totalCpu”

]

Only valid when schema is vsphere.

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.

This feature depends on a version of pyvmomi greater than v6.7.1.2018.12

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.

schema

string

Specify the output schema desired.

The ‘summary’ output schema is the legacy output from the module.

The ‘vsphere’ output schema is the vSphere API class definition which requires pyvmomi>6.7.1.

Choices:

  • "summary" ← (default)

  • "vsphere"

show_tag

boolean

Tags related to cluster are shown if set to true.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

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.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

If set to true, please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

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

Examples

- name: Gather cluster info from given datacenter
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: ha-datacenter
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: cluster_info

- name: Gather info from datacenter about specific cluster
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: DC0_C0
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: cluster_info

- name: Gather info from datacenter about specific cluster with tags
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: DC0_C0
    show_tag: true
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: cluster_info

- name: Gather some info from a cluster using the vSphere API output schema
  vmware_cluster_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: DC0_C0
    schema: vsphere
    properties:
      - name
      - configuration.dasConfig.enabled
      - summary.totalCpu
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: cluster_info

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

clusters

dictionary

metadata about the available clusters

datacenter added in the return values from version 1.6.0

Returned: always

Sample: {"DC0_C0": {"datacenter": "DC0", "drs_default_vm_behavior": null, "drs_enable_vm_behavior_overrides": null, "drs_vmotion_rate": null, "enable_ha": null, "enabled_drs": true, "enabled_vsan": false, "ha_admission_control_enabled": null, "ha_failover_level": null, "ha_host_monitoring": null, "ha_restart_priority": null, "ha_vm_failure_interval": null, "ha_vm_max_failure_window": null, "ha_vm_max_failures": null, "ha_vm_min_up_time": null, "ha_vm_monitoring": null, "ha_vm_tools_monitoring": null, "hosts": [{"folder": "/DC0/host/DC0_C0", "name": "esxi01.vsphere.local"}, {"folder": "/DC0/host/DC0_C0", "name": "esxi02.vsphere.local"}, {"folder": "/DC0/host/DC0_C0", "name": "esxi03.vsphere.local"}, {"folder": "/DC0/host/DC0_C0", "name": "esxi04.vsphere.local"}], "moid": "domain-c9", "resource_summary": {"cpuCapacityMHz": 4224, "cpuUsedMHz": 87, "memCapacityMB": 6139, "memUsedMB": 1254, "pMemAvailableMB": 0, "pMemCapacityMB": 0, "storageCapacityMB": 33280, "storageUsedMB": 19953}, "tags": [{"category_id": "urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceCategory:9fbf83de-7903-442e-8004-70fd3940297c:GLOBAL", "category_name": "sample_cluster_cat_0001", "description": "", "id": "urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceTag:93d680db-b3a6-4834-85ad-3e9516e8fee8:GLOBAL", "name": "sample_cluster_tag_0001"}], "vsan_auto_claim_storage": false}}

Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)

  • Christian Neugum (@digifuchsi)