blob: 097b69b1a130e4a94516dcbe158e3663e48e3af8 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
|
.. _vmware_rest_vm_info:
***************************************
Retrieve information from a specific VM
***************************************
.. contents::
:local:
Introduction
============
This section shows you how to use Ansible to retrieve information about a specific virtual machine.
Scenario requirements
=====================
You've already followed :ref:`vmware_rest_create_vm` and you've got create a new VM called ``test_vm1``.
How to collect virtual machine information
==========================================
List the VM
___________
In this example, we use the ``vcenter_vm_info`` module to collect information about our new VM.
In this example, we start by asking for a list of VMs. We use a filter to limit the results to just the VM called ``test_vm1``. So we are in a list context, with one single entry in the ``value`` key.
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Look_up_the_VM_called_test_vm1_in_the_inventory.task.yaml
Result
______
As expected, we get a list. And thanks to our filter, we just get one entry.
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Look_up_the_VM_called_test_vm1_in_the_inventory.result.json
Collect the details about a specific VM
_______________________________________
For the next steps, we pass the ID of the VM through the ``vm`` parameter. This allow us to collect more details about this specific VM.
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Collect_information_about_a_specific_VM.task.yaml
Result
______
The result is a structure with all the details about our VM. You will note this is actually the same information that we get when we created the VM.
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Collect_information_about_a_specific_VM.result.json
Get the hardware version of a specific VM
_________________________________________
We can also use all the ``vcenter_vm_*_info`` modules to retrieve a smaller amount
of information. Here we use ``vcenter_vm_hardware_info`` to know the hardware version of
the VM.
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Collect_the_hardware_information.task.yaml
Result
______
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Collect_the_hardware_information.result.json
List the SCSI adapter(s) of a specific VM
_________________________________________
Here for instance, we list the SCSI adapter(s) of the VM:
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/List_the_SCSI_adapter_of_a_given_VM.task.yaml
You can do the same for the SATA controllers with ``vcenter_vm_adapter_sata_info``.
Result
______
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/List_the_SCSI_adapter_of_a_given_VM.result.json
List the CDROM drive(s) of a specific VM
________________________________________
And we list its CDROM drives.
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/List_the_cdrom_devices_on_the_guest.task.yaml
Result
______
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/List_the_cdrom_devices_on_the_guest.result.json
Get the memory information of the VM
____________________________________
Here we collect the memory information of the VM:
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Retrieve_the_memory_information_from_the_VM.task.yaml
Result
______
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Retrieve_the_memory_information_from_the_VM.result.json
Get the storage policy of the VM
--------------------------------
We use the ``vcenter_vm_storage_policy_info`` module for that:
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Get_VM_storage_policy.task.yaml
Result
______
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Get_VM_storage_policy.result.json
Get the disk information of the VM
----------------------------------
We use the ``vcenter_vm_hardware_disk_info`` for this operation:
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Retrieve_the_disk_information_from_the_VM.task.yaml
Result
______
.. literalinclude:: task_outputs/Retrieve_the_disk_information_from_the_VM.result.json
|
