ansible / ansible.builtin / v2.9.3 / module / vmware_vswitch_info Gathers info about an ESXi host's vswitch configurations | "added in version" 2.9 of ansible.builtin" Authors: Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde) preview | supported by communityansible.builtin.vmware_vswitch_info (v2.9.3) — module
pip
Install with pip install ansible==2.9.3
This module can be used to gather information about an ESXi host's vswitch configurations when ESXi hostname or Cluster name is given.
The vSphere Client shows the value for the number of ports as elastic from vSphere 5.5 and above.
Other tools like esxcli might show the number of ports as 1536 or 5632.
See U(https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2064511) for more details.
- name: Gather vswitch info about all ESXi Host in given Cluster vmware_vswitch_info: hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}' username: '{{ vcenter_username }}' password: '{{ vcenter_password }}' cluster_name: '{{ cluster_name }}' delegate_to: localhost register: all_hosts_vswitch_info
- name: Gather firewall info about ESXi Host vmware_vswitch_info: hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}' username: '{{ vcenter_username }}' password: '{{ vcenter_password }}' esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}' delegate_to: localhost register: all_vswitch_info
port: default: 443 description: - The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_PORT) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: int hostname: description: - 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 C(VMWARE_HOST) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: str password: aliases: - pass - pwd description: - The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_PASSWORD) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: str username: aliases: - admin - user description: - The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_USER) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. type: str proxy_host: description: - 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 C(VMWARE_PROXY_HOST) will be used instead. - This feature depends on a version of pyvmomi greater than v6.7.1.2018.12 required: false type: str proxy_port: description: - 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 C(VMWARE_PROXY_PORT) will be used instead. required: false type: int cluster_name: description: - Name of the cluster. - Info about vswitch belonging to every ESXi host systems under this cluster will be returned. - If C(esxi_hostname) is not given, this parameter is required. type: str esxi_hostname: description: - ESXi hostname to gather information from. - If C(cluster_name) is not given, this parameter is required. type: str validate_certs: default: true description: - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to C(false) when certificates are not trusted. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable C(VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS) will be used instead. - Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. - If set to C(true), please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine. type: bool
hosts_vswitch_info: description: metadata about host's vswitch configuration returned: on success sample: 10.76.33.218: vSwitch0: mtu: 1500 num_ports: 128 pnics: - vmnic0 vSwitch_0011: mtu: 1500 num_ports: 128 pnics: - vmnic2 - vmnic1 type: dict