community.vmware.vmware_datastore_info module – Gather info about datastores available in given vCenter

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 5.1.0).

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_datastore_info.

Synopsis

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

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
cluster string	Cluster to search for datastores. If set, information of datastores belonging this clusters will be returned. This parameter is required, if datacenter is not supplied.
datacenter aliases: datacenter_name string	Datacenter to search for datastores. This parameter is required, if cluster is not supplied.
gather_nfs_mount_info boolean	Gather mount information of NFS datastores. Disabled per default because this slows down the execution if you have a lot of datastores. Only valid when schema=summary. Choices: false ← (default) true
gather_vmfs_mount_info boolean	Gather mount information of VMFS datastores. Disabled per default because this slows down the execution if you have a lot of datastores. Only valid when schema=summary. Choices: false ← (default) true
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.
name string	Name of the datastore to match. If set, information of specific datastores are returned.
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.
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. Default: 443
properties list / elements=string	Specify the properties to retrieve. If not specified, all properties are retrieved (deeply). Results are returned in a structure identical to the vsphere API. Example: properties: [ “name”, “info.vmfs.ssd”, “capability.vsanSparseSupported”, “overallStatus” ] Only valid when schema=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.
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 Choices: "summary" ← (default) "vsphere"
show_tag boolean	Tags related to Datastore 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.
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 requires API write access and hence is not supported on a free ESXi license.

• All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.

Examples

- name: Gather info from standalone ESXi server having datacenter as 'ha-datacenter'
  community.vmware.vmware_datastore_info:
    hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ esxi_username }}'
    password: '{{ esxi_password }}'
    datacenter_name: "ha-datacenter"
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: info

- name: Gather info from datacenter about specific datastore
  community.vmware.vmware_datastore_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
    name: datastore1
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: info

- name: Gather some info from a datastore using the vSphere API output schema
  community.vmware.vmware_datastore_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter_name }}'
    schema: vsphere
    properties:
      - name
      - info.vmfs.ssd
      - capability.vsanSparseSupported
      - overallStatus
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: info

Return Values

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

Key

Description

datastores list / elements=string

metadata about the available datastores Returned: always Sample: [{"accessible": false, "capacity": 42681237504, "datastore_cluster": "datacluster0", "freeSpace": 39638269952, "maintenanceMode": "normal", "multipleHostAccess": false, "name": "datastore2", "provisioned": 12289211488, "type": "VMFS", "uncommitted": 9246243936, "url": "ds:///vmfs/volumes/5a69b18a-c03cd88c-36ae-5254001249ce/", "vmfs_blockSize": 1024, "vmfs_uuid": "5a69b18a-c03cd88c-36ae-5254001249ce", "vmfs_version": "6.81"}, {"accessible": true, "capacity": 5497558138880, "datastore_cluster": "datacluster0", "freeSpace": 4279000641536, "maintenanceMode": "normal", "multipleHostAccess": true, "name": "datastore3", "nfs_path": "/vol/datastore3", "nfs_server": "nfs_server1", "provisioned": 1708109410304, "type": "NFS", "uncommitted": 489551912960, "url": "ds:///vmfs/volumes/420b3e73-67070776/"}]

Authors

• Tim Rightnour (@garbled1)

Collection links

• Issue Tracker
• Homepage
• Repository (Sources)