community.vmware.vmware_folder_info module – Provides information about folders in a datacenter

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 5.2.0).

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_folder_info.

Synopsis

  • The module can be used to gather a hierarchical view of the folders that exist within a datacenter

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

datacenter

aliases: datacenter_name

string / required

Name of the datacenter.

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.

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

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.

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: Provide information about vCenter folders
  community.vmware.vmware_folder_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: datacenter_name
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vcenter_folder_info

- name: Get information about folders
  community.vmware.vmware_folder_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: 'Asia-Datacenter1'
  register: r

- name: Set Managed object ID for the given folder
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    folder_mo_id: "{{ (r.flat_folder_info | selectattr('path', 'equalto', '/Asia-Datacenter1/vm/tier1/tier2') | map(attribute='moid'))[0] }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

flat_folder_info

list / elements=string

list of dict about folders in flat structure

Returned: success

Sample: [{"moid": "group-v3", "path": "/Asia-Datacenter1/vm"}, {"moid": "group-v44", "path": "/Asia-Datacenter1/vm/tier1"}, {"moid": "group-v45", "path": "/Asia-Datacenter1/vm/tier1/tier2"}]

folder_info

dictionary

dict about folders

Returned: success

Sample: {"datastoreFolders": {"moid": "group-v10", "path": "/DC01/datastore", "subfolders": {"Local Datastores": {"path": "/DC01/datastore/Local Datastores", "subfolders": {}}}}, "hostFolders": {"moid": "group-v21", "path": "/DC01/host", "subfolders": {}}, "networkFolders": {"moid": "group-v31", "path": "/DC01/network", "subfolders": {}}, "vmFolders": {"moid": "group-v41", "path": "/DC01/vm", "subfolders": {"Core Infrastructure Servers": {"moid": "group-v42", "path": "/DC01/vm/Core Infrastructure Servers", "subfolders": {"Staging Network Services": {"moid": "group-v43", "path": "/DC01/vm/Core Infrastructure Servers/Staging Network Services", "subfolders": {}}, "VMware": {"moid": "group-v44", "path": "/DC01/vm/Core Infrastructure Servers/VMware", "subfolders": {}}}}}}}

Authors

  • David Hewitt (@davidmhewitt)