This is a second part of Developing and writing Ansible Python custom module for VMware pyvmomi example. In this example I have extended writing python module for VMware ansible to get more information from vCenter server from one single python ansible module script.
Download this custom ansible module for vCenter example here or it is also available github.com.
In this module it can get information regarding ESXi servers, VMs and it gets the list and configures SCSI adapter on VMs. Below is one of the module example to get inventory Virtual Machines list from vCenter Server.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
DOCUMENTATION = '''
---
module: custom_vm_info
short_description: Retrieve information about virtual machines from vCenter inventory
'''
from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect, Disconnect
from pyVmomi import vim
import ssl
def main():
module = AnsibleModule(
argument_spec=dict(
vcenter_host=dict(type='str', required=True),
vcenter_user=dict(type='str', required=True),
vcenter_password=dict(type='str', required=True, no_log=True),
vm_name=dict(type='str', default=None)
)
)
vcenter_host = module.params['vcenter_host']
vcenter_user = module.params['vcenter_user']
vcenter_password = module.params['vcenter_password']
vm_name = module.params['vm_name']
s = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23)
s.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
try:
si = SmartConnect(host=vcenter_host, user=vcenter_user, pwd=vcenter_password, sslContext=s)
content = si.content
if vm_name is None:
vms = get_all_objs(content, [vim.VirtualMachine])
vm_list = []
for vm in vms:
vm_info = get_vm_info(vm)
vm_list.append(vm_info)
Disconnect(si)
response = {'virtual_machines': vm_list}
module.exit_json(changed=False, meta=response)
else:
vm = get_vm_by_name(content, vm_name)
if vm:
vm_info = get_vm_info(vm)
Disconnect(si)
module.exit_json(changed=False, meta=vm_info)
else:
Disconnect(si)
module.fail_json(msg=f"Virtual machine '{vm_name}' not found.")
except Exception as e:
module.fail_json(msg=str(e))
def get_all_objs(content, vimtype):
obj = {}
container = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(content.rootFolder, vimtype, True)
for managed_object_ref in container.view:
obj.update({managed_object_ref: managed_object_ref.name})
return obj
def get_vm_by_name(content, vm_name):
container = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(content.rootFolder, [vim.VirtualMachine], True)
for vm in container.view:
if vm.name == vm_name:
return vm
return None
def get_vm_info(vm):
return {
'id': vm._moId,
'name': vm.name,
'power_state': vm.runtime.powerState,
'connection_state': vm.runtime.connectionState,
'guest_fullname': vm.config.guestFullName,
'num_cpus': vm.config.hardware.numCPU,
'memory_size_mb': vm.config.hardware.memoryMB,
'esxi_host': get_vm_esxi_host(vm),
'cluster': get_vm_cluster(vm),
'datastore': get_vm_datastore(vm),
'folder': get_vm_folder(vm),
'ip_addresses': get_vm_ip_addresses(vm)
}
def get_vm_esxi_host(vm):
if vm.runtime.host:
return vm.runtime.host.name
return None
def get_vm_cluster(vm):
if vm.resourcePool:
return vm.resourcePool.owner.name
return None
def get_vm_datastore(vm):
if vm.datastore:
return vm.datastore[0].name
return None
def get_vm_folder(vm):
if vm.parent:
return vm.parent.name
return None
def get_vm_ip_addresses(vm):
ip_addresses = []
if vm.guest and vm.guest.net:
for net in vm.guest.net:
if net.ipAddress:
ip_addresses.extend(net.ipAddress)
return ip_addresses
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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