community / community.vmware / 0.4.0 / module / vmware_host_capability_facts
Removed in 2.13
Reason:Deprecated in favour of C(_info) module. | Alternative:Use M(vmware_host_capability_info) instead.
Gathers facts about an ESXi host's capability information
Authors: Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
deprecated | supported by community
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware:==0.4.0
collections: - name: community.vmware version: 0.4.0
This module can be used to gather facts about an ESXi host's capability information when ESXi hostname or Cluster name is given.
- name: Gather capability facts about all ESXi Host in given Cluster vmware_host_capability_facts: hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}' username: '{{ vcenter_username }}' password: '{{ vcenter_password }}' cluster_name: cluster_name delegate_to: localhost register: all_cluster_hosts_facts
- name: Gather capability facts about ESXi Host vmware_host_capability_facts: hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}' username: '{{ vcenter_username }}' password: '{{ vcenter_password }}' esxi_hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}' delegate_to: localhost register: hosts_facts
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 from all host systems to be used for facts gathering. - If C(esxi_hostname) is not given, this parameter is required. type: str esxi_hostname: description: - ESXi hostname to gather facts 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(yes), please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine. type: bool
hosts_capability_facts: description: metadata about host's capability information returned: always sample: esxi_hostname_0001: accel3dSupported: false backgroundSnapshotsSupported: false checkpointFtCompatibilityIssues: [] checkpointFtSupported: false cloneFromSnapshotSupported: true cpuHwMmuSupported: true type: dict