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Ansible getting started

  • Getting started with Ansible

Installation, Upgrade & Configuration

  • Installation Guide
  • Ansible Porting Guides

Using Ansible

  • Building Ansible inventories
  • Using Ansible command line tools
  • Using Ansible playbooks
  • Protecting sensitive data with Ansible vault
  • Using Ansible modules and plugins
  • Using Ansible collections
  • Using Ansible on Windows and BSD
  • Ansible tips and tricks

Contributing to Ansible

  • Ansible Community Guide
  • Ansible Collections Contributor Guide
  • ansible-core Contributors Guide
  • Advanced Contributor Guide
  • Ansible documentation style 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
      • Community.Aws
      • Community.Azure
      • Community.Ciscosmb
      • Community.Crypto
      • Community.Digitalocean
      • Community.Dns
      • Community.Docker
      • Community.Fortios
      • Community.General
      • Community.Google
      • Community.Grafana
      • Community.Hashi_Vault
      • Community.Hrobot
      • Community.Libvirt
      • Community.Mongodb
      • Community.Mysql
      • Community.Network
      • Community.Okd
      • Community.Postgresql
      • Community.Proxysql
      • Community.Rabbitmq
      • Community.Routeros
      • Community.Sap
      • Community.Sap_Libs
      • Community.Skydive
      • Community.Sops
      • Community.Vmware
        • Description
        • Scenario Guide
        • Developer Guide
        • Plugin Index
      • Community.Windows
      • Community.Zabbix
    • 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 Grafana 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 Lowlydba Namespace
    • Collections in the Microsoft 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 Telekom_mms Namespace
    • Collections in the Theforeman Namespace
    • Collections in the Vmware Namespace
    • Collections in the Vultr Namespace
    • 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-core Roadmaps




Ansible
  • Collection Index
  • Collections in the Community Namespace
  • Community.Vmware
  • VMware Guide

You are reading an unmaintained version of the Ansible documentation. Unmaintained Ansible versions can contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVE). Please upgrade to a maintained version. See the latest Ansible documentation.

VMware Guide

Welcome to the Ansible for VMware Guide!

The purpose of this guide is to teach you everything you need to know about using Ansible with VMware.

To get started, please select one of the following topics.

  • Introduction to Ansible for VMware
  • Ansible for VMware Concepts
  • VMware Prerequisites
  • Using VMware dynamic inventory plugin
  • Using Virtual machine attributes in VMware dynamic inventory plugin
  • Using VMware dynamic inventory plugin - Hostnames
  • Using VMware dynamic inventory plugin - Filters
  • Ansible for VMware Scenarios
  • Troubleshooting Ansible for VMware
  • Other useful VMware resources
  • Ansible VMware FAQ
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