community.vmware.vmware_host_powermgmt_policy module – Manages the Power Management Policy of an ESXI host system

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 6.1.0).

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_host_powermgmt_policy.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to manage the Power Management Policy of ESXi host systems in given vCenter infrastructure.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cluster_name

string

Name of the cluster from which all host systems will be used.

This is required parameter if esxi_hostname is not specified.

esxi_hostname

string

Name of the host system to work with.

This is required parameter if cluster_name is not specified.

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter 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 server.

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

policy

string

Set the Power Management Policy of the host system.

Choices:

  • "high-performance"

  • "balanced" ← (default)

  • "low-power"

  • "custom"

port

integer

The port number of the vSphere vCenter 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

The 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

The 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.

username

aliases: admin, user

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter 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 require API write access and hence are not supported on a free ESXi license.

  • All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.

  • Modules may rely on the ‘requests’ python library, which does not use the system certificate store by default. You can specify the certificate store by setting the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable. Note having this variable set may cause a ‘false’ value for the ‘validate_certs’ option to be ignored in some cases. Example: ‘export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/your/ca_bundle.pem’

Examples

- name: Set the Power Management Policy of a host system to high-performance
  community.vmware.vmware_host_powermgmt_policy:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_host }}'
    policy: high-performance
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set the Power Management Policy of all host systems from cluster to high-performance
  community.vmware.vmware_host_powermgmt_policy:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}'
    policy: high-performance
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key

Description

result

dictionary

metadata about host system’s Power Management Policy

Returned: always

Sample: {"changed": true, "result": {"esxi01": {"changed": true, "current_state": "high-performance", "desired_state": "high-performance", "msg": "Power policy changed", "previous_state": "balanced"}}}

Authors

  • Christian Kotte (@ckotte)