Ansible for VMware Operations Recipes
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Ansible for VMware Operations Recipes
Day-2 operations cookbook for vCenter / ESXi fleets driven by Ansible. Distinct from the author's Apress 2023 book; recipes use public community.vmware and vmware.vmware_rest collection patterns. Wha
- Production-tested examples you can copy-paste today
- PDF format, optimized for screen and print
- Free updates whenever the source CLI changes
- Search-friendly, code-block heavy, no fluff
About this ebook
Day-2 operations cookbook for vCenter / ESXi fleets driven by Ansible. Distinct from the author's Apress 2023 book; recipes use public community.vmware and vmware.vmware_rest collection patterns.
What's inside:
• Inventory + auth: vault, dynamic inventory, REST token reuse.
• Pre-flight: collections, python deps, Execution Environment image.
• Folders, resource pools, clusters with DRS rules and reservations.
• VM lifecycle: clone-from-template, hot reconfigure, delete.
• Content libraries, OVF / OVA template publishing and deployment.
• Linux + Windows customization specs, cloud-init via guestinfo, Sysprep domain join.
• Snapshots: create, consolidate, prune, restore - quiesced for DB VMs.
• Backups via Velero-vSphere and tag-driven 3rd-party tools.
• Tagging + categories for governance, cost reports, RBAC.
• Networking: dvSwitch, dvPortgroup, NSX-T segments.
• Storage: datastore mounts, vSAN SPBM policies.
• Host lifecycle: enter / exit maintenance, rolling ESXi patching with serial: 1.
• vCenter + ESXi upgrade orchestration via vLCM.
• STIG-aligned hardening for ESXi + vCenter (lockdown mode, syslog, certs).
• Prometheus vsphere_exporter scrape + SRM DR orchestration.
• Execution Environment for vmware.vmware_rest + AAP job templates.
• 10 common errors with one-line fixes.
Tested against vSphere 7.0 U3 + 8.0 U3, NSX-T 4.1+, vSAN 8 ESA, ansible-core 2.18. Lifetime updates while the recipes are maintained, delivered via /library.
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